SLAS is an international community of more than 15,000 individual scientists, engineers, researchers, technologists and others from academic, government and commercial laboratories. SLAS provides forums for education and information exchange to encourage the study of and advance laboratory science and technology for the drug discovery, agrochemical, biotechnology, chemical, clinical diagnostic, consumer product, energy, food, forensic, pharmaceutical, security and other industries

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Biochemical Pathway of Necrosis

Understanding cell death at molecular level

Drug Discovery Technologies

Drug discovery areas - automation and natural product screening. Robotic systems for automated cell growth and cellular assays for compound profiling and target identification. Management of compound library and associated best practices to speed up drug discovery process

Stem Cells in Drug Discovery

Stem cell applications for disease modeling, drug discovery and development. Laboratory studies of neuronal development of human pluripotent stem cells

Primary and PSC Derived Cells for Screening

Stem cell biology laboratory methods & LIMS/LIS for the application of stem cell technology to neuroscience.

From Screening to Therapy

Advances in assay technologies, LIMS & laboratory automation, and compound library development. Screening and lab automation for applications in drug discovery