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GE HEALTHCARE CUSTOMERS REALIZE
BEAUTY OF SCIENCE AS RESEARCH TO BE PUBLISHED IN TIMES SQUARE
CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK, JANUARY 24,
2008 – GE Healthcare, a leading global provider of automated high content
analysis systems, will display winning entries from its IN Cell Analyzer™ Image
Competition 2007 on the NBC screen in Times Square, New York on March 7 and 9,
2008.
This year’s competition received 84 stunning entries from more than 10
countries. One of the winning images was selected by a scientific panel, and the
other by popular vote. Winner of the popular vote was Carmen Laethem of Aerie
Pharmaceuticals, North Carolina, US, with an image of primary pig trabecular
meshwork cells from a study in the field of ocular diseases. The scientific
panel selected an image of human cortical neural stem cells created by Kymmy
Lorrain of BrainCells Inc., USA, in research on depression and post-traumatic
stress disorder. The winning images were captured on the IN Cell Analyzer 1000.
Both winners will be taken to see their images on the NBC screen.
The winning entries will also be displayed at the Society for Biomolecular
Sciences (SBS) Annual Conference in St.Louis in April 2008, and in GE
Healthcare’s IN Cell Analyzer Image Calendar 2009.
The competition was supported by BioTechniques, and submitted images covered a
wide range of applications, including cancer, neurology, cardiology, drug
discovery, assay development, neurodegenerative diseases (including Alzheimers),
obesity, and dermatology, illustrating the broad application areas of the IN
Cell Analyzer systems.
The winning images can be viewed at
www.geincell.com .
For a high resolution image please contact College Hill at
ge-incell@collegehill.com
About GE Healthcare’s IN Cell Analyzer
The IN Cell Analyzer represents a range of modular imaging systems for fast and
automated High Content Analysis (HCA). The advanced and highly sensitive
platforms enable scientists to study cellular processes in their true biological
context, in research and drug discovery. They offer high-throughput microscopy
in combination with modern cellular assays and robotic handling for automated
cellular imaging and analysis. The IN Cell Analyzer provides one of the most
versatile HCA portfolios on the market and is exceptional in its modularity,
completeness and ease of use. It has been recognised by the 2007 Frost &
Sullivan Technology Innovation Award. For more detailed information on the IN
Cell suite, visit
http://www.gehealthcare.com/incell .
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that
are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and
information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems,
performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing
technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to
predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their
lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers
to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and
other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early
health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease
detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE
Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE).
Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 47,000 people committed to serving
healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more
information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at
www.gehealthcare.com .
Contact
GE Healthcare, Americas
Arvind Gopalratnam
262-501-0777
arvind.gopalratnam@ge.com
GE Healthcare, International
Conor McKechnie
+44 771 751 7028
conor.mckechnie@ge.com
College Hill
Lorna Cuddon, Dr Marc Egelhofer, Katie Odgaard
+44 (0)20 7457 2020
ge-incell@collegehill.com
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