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Past Lab Awards winners
Take a look at the brilliant winners from previous Lab Awards, and read why the judges chose them as the best out of many worthy contenders.
2024 Winners
Best Marketing Campaign award – SDI Group
SDI Group - Winners of the Best Marketing Campaign award.
Best Sustainable Stand award – Shimadzu
Shimadzu - Winners of the Best Sustainable Stand award.
Best Stand award – Calibre Scientific
Calibre Scientific - Winners of the Best Stand award.
Lab of the Year – Carcinotech
Carcinotech’s development of a 3D-bioprinting system is impressive. To strengthen the entry, highlight advancements across multiple lab areas, such as new processes, staff development, or collaborative initiatives.
Commitment to Skills and Training individual award – Louise Carney
Louise’s dedication to upskilling workers is well-documented. The entry provides strong examples of her impact, making a compelling case for recognition.
Supplier Excellence award – SLS
Their new distribution center showcases impressive innovation and capacity improvements. To strengthen your entry, highlight specific examples of how you’ve built close relationships with key clients and the mutual benefits achieved.
Best Automation and Data Innovation award – Syensqo
Their LIMS implementation significantly improved data management and efficiency. Excellent work standardizing processes and enhancing analytics across all labs.
Best Sustainable Innovation award – Clean Air Limited
Clean Air’s CFD-based testing method offers a groundbreaking solution to reduce carbon emissions in lab fume cupboard testing. For a top score, provide specific examples of how this innovation has already impacted lab operations and safety standards.
Sustainable Lab of the Year – CREWW
Your exceptional sustainability initiatives and rapid LEAF Gold achievement demonstrate industry leadership. Your Net Zero operations and innovative practices set a high standard.
The Rising Star Award – Olusegun Olayemi
STEM is an undervalued area in the UK. Olusegun appears to be having a strong impact on his institution and internationally, so is indeed a star on the rise.
Commitment to Skills and Training organisation award – Element Lab Solutions
The Thermo Scientific Stellar mass spectrometer is an impressive innovation with clear real-world applications. The entry effectively demonstrates the impact and importance of this technology in labs.
Best Technology Innovation award – Thermo Scientific
Best Consumable Innovation award – LabCycle
LabCycle’s Petri dishes made from 100% recycled polystyrene are an impressive innovation in sustainable lab consumables. The closed-loop recycling process effectively reduces plastic waste while maintaining high-quality standards.
Lab Technician of the Year – Graham Hickman
Graham has exceeded the typical role of a technician: by championing imaging services, helping to win grants and then promoting these services to the University and other Third Parties. Such value-adding activities are highly commendable.
Best Collaborative Project Award – AstraZeneca
This project showcases exceptional collaboration on a grand scale, successfully bringing together diverse teams and resources to establish the Discovery Centre (DISC).
Outstanding Achievement – Laurence Dawkins-Hall
Laurence is a dedicated and hard-working professional with 35 years of experience in biomedical science laboratory teaching and practice. He has continually evolved his training methods, now incorporating online and video-based approaches that have proven highly popular.
The Lab Awards really help us recognise the achievements and accomplishments of other people, and see the innovation in the industry. Without them – we wouldn’t be driving anything forward!
Andrew King, AstraZeneca
Oustanding Achievement Award Winner 2025
2023 Winners
Supplier Excellence, sponsored by Johnsons Laboratory Logistics – Anthias Consulting
Anthias state in their submission “Anthias Consulting were one of the first training providers to achieve The Royal Society of Chemistry's CPD approval for their courses through their accreditation scheme.
Sustainable Product of the Year – Avantor VWR
Avantor state in their submission that their products are “Made from 100% recycled post-consumer polyester – including stitching, stud fasteners and label. Virgin polyester isn’t required, and our coats can be recycled completely at end of life.
Best Automation and Data Innovation, sponsored by NovaticLab – Enbiosis Biotechnology
Enbiosis application stated their innovation was “a pioneering AI-driven microbiome analysis tool, epitomizes technological innovation in the lab sector.
Commitment to Skills & Training – Element & Agilent – CHROMacademy
Element & Agilent application that CHROMacademy offers nearly 450 unique pieces of learning content supported by 200 hours of video content and 130 interactive elements.
Best Organisation Culture – Leybold
In Leybold's application, they stated “we have worked across the team to drive a positive culture with a theme of inclusivity, where everyone feels they have a part to play in making Leybold a Great Place to Work”.
Sustainable Lab of the Year, sponsored by Grenova – AstraZeneca – Green Labs
AstraZeneca’s application stated “The health of people, the planet and business are interconnected, each impacting the others; which is why our Sustainability journey is so important.
Smart Lab of the Year, sponsored by Labforward – AstraZeneca – AskLab Insights Projects
AstraZeneca application talk about their “support the present and future needs of their scientists, providing efficient, sustainable and safe environments where innovation can thrive.”
Laboratory of the Year, sponsored by LS Scientific – Geotechnics Ltd
Geotechnics application included information on how Geotechnics Limited is one of the UK's largest independent ground investigation specialists and has been providing geotechnical engineering services for 40 years.
Oustanding Achievement – Matthew Bramley
Matthew is the founder and managing director of Trafalgar Scientific Ltd, and has made a long-standing commitment and passion for both the industry and his local area.
Lab Technician of the Year, sponsored by Scientific Laboratory Supplies – Laurie Lau
Laurie’s application included details on his on account of outstanding contributions to research and enterprise. His expertise has underpinned successful research resulting in some 170 publications and led to grant awards.
Rising Star, sponsored by Vitl Life Science Solutions, a G&H brand – Emma Sanderson
Emma's application mentioned her role as customer support staff at SLS and praised her for recruiting and training new members. Emma has revolutionised the way her team and SLS work by driving forward a new customer service package which puts customers at the centre of everything SLS does.
Best Consumable Innovation – Merah Medical – Sentinal
Best Technology Innovation, sponsored by Porvair Sciences – Beckman Coulter – Dxl 9000 Access Immunoassay Analyzer
Best Collaborative Project Award – Mobile research laboratory – Invizius, in partnership with the NHS and EMS Healthcare.
2022 Winners
The Best Stand Award | Scientific Laboratory Supplies
SLS won this award due to their striking stand, their multiple industry partners who hosted pods on their stand, interactive elements and more!
The Best Sustainable Stand Award | Scientific Laboratory Supplies
SLS won this award due to a number of factors, a few of which include; their stand is reusable and has been gracing the Lab Innovations show floor since 2016, all of their gifts onsite were made out of recycled materials, and they were planting a tree for every visitor to their stand!
The Best Exhibitor Marketing Campaign Award | Analytix
Analytix created a fantastic end-to-end marketing campaign focused on their participation at the show, resulting in the highest number of visitors coming to the show specifically to see them!
The Red Swan Partners Award for Commitment to Skills & Training | Elemental Microanalysis
The judges said Elemental Microanalysis' entry showed a “ Substantial positive impact through training for staff, customers and channel partners with ongoing support with an impressive track record...”
The Kimtech Sustainable Product Award | Grenova
The judges commended Grenova for “intelligently and proactively helping to reduce biohazard waste by delivering ground breaking approaches to dealing with plastic consumables.”
The Diversity & Inclusion Award | ALS Global
ALS Global won this award and they made a clear effort to embed diversity and inclusion by engaging employees from all regions and levels of the business in its RISE initiative and it’s great to see that it’s not just for women, but for everyone.
The Sustainable Laboratory Award | Cansford Laboratories Ltd
The Lab Automation Award | Ellutia
Ellutia won this award for their unique nitrosamines detector. The judges said this was a “unique idea, and well implemented. A solid process innovation with related technical development which Improves ease of use, safety and speed.”
The Consumables Innovation Award | MolGen UK
MolGen won this award for "A game-changing product innovation for the safe collection of saliva samples.”
Extended CRM stability has many benefits to analysts, including cost and time-saving efficiencies due to reduced cross-checking of new batches before use.
Supplier Excellence Award | Haier Biomedical UK
The Mico BioMed Best Technology Innovation Award | Cytecom
The Innovate UK Collaborative Project Award | Holiferm
2021 Winners
Pandemic response award | Francis Crick Institute
Best stand award | SciMed
Health, safety and security development | Zoe Andrews, Harvey’s Gang
F2F training | Anthias Consulting
Online or print training resource | Anthias Consulting
Laboratory research model or simulation | Shimadzu
Emerging technology | Appleton Woods
Laboratory informatics solution | Clinisys UK
Consumable innovation | ESSLAB
Sustainable waste management improvement | Starlab UK
Sustainable product development | Scientific Laboratory Supplies
Sustainable process improvement | CAMLAB
Collaboration with industry | The Francis Crick Institute
Collaboration with the public sector | Clinisys UK
