Eppendorf SE

For this category, you chose lab equipment supplier Eppendorf. Eppendorf was founded in 1945 at the University Clinic Hamburg Eppendorf to focus on improving living conditions after the war. Today, the company continues this mission by providing bioprocess solutions that help bring life-saving treatments to the world. The company facilitates life sciences research through a diverse portfolio of liquid handling and bioprocess instrumentation (including pipettes, centrifuges, mixers, ultra-freezers, bioreactors, software, and process modules), as well as consumables. The company is particularly well known for its innovation in centrifuges and describes itself as a “premium brand.” Over the years it has acquired several other companies, including New Brunswick, DASGIP Group, and the centrifuge business of Koki Holdings in Japan (Himac).

Eppendorf is also active in helping to promote new talent in biomedicine, and has launched an award for young European investigators and a science prize for neurobiology.