Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening

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Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening
AbbreviationSLAS
Formation2010
Headquarters Oak Brook, Illinois, United States
CEO
Vicki Loise [1]
Website www.slas.org

Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is a scientific and professional society formed in 2010 as a merger between the Association for Laboratory Automation and the Society for Biomolecular Sciences. [2] The mission of SLAS is "to bring together researchers in academia, industry and government to advance life sciences discovery and technology via education, knowledge exchange and global community building." [3]

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SLAS has its global office near Chicago, as well as offices in Brussels. [4] Since 2014, its annual meetings are held alternately in San Diego, California in even-numbered years, and in Washington, D.C., in odd-numbered years. [5] [6] For 2021, the SLAS International conference will be held in a virtual format, online. [7] Starting in 2022, the East coast location for the conference will be held in Boston, MA. [8]

Purpose

SLAS is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes as defined by Internal Revenue Code Section ("IRC") 501(c) (3). In particular, SLAS's exempt purpose is to advance laboratory science and technology through education, scientific research, and to serve as a public forum for the exchange of information related to laboratory science and technology. [9]

History

In early 2009, the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) and the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) began discussing ways the organizations could work together to further their respective and similar missions. These discussions led SBS and ALA to recognize that coordinating programs and activities offered many significant advantages. [10] Accordingly, SBS and ALA assigned a task force to determine the viability of an SBS-ALA amalgamation. The task force unanimously concluded that both SBS and ALA could be strengthened by merging into a new entity that advanced their common missions and goals while respecting and protecting their unique individual histories and identities.

As of March 15, 2010, the two organizations publicly announced that they proposed to merge SBS and ALA into one organization, which would be "dedicated to advancing scientific research and discovery through laboratory technology". [11] As of May 5, 2010, both memberships officially authorized the merger with more than 95% of the votes cast in favor of the plan. The inspectors for the proxy voting process reported that SBS and ALA exceeded quorum requirements by 124% and 218%, respectively, and certified the results as valid. [12]

Publications

SLAS publishes two scientific journals, SLAS Technology and SLAS Discovery , in partnership with SAGE Publications. [13] SLAS Technology was published from 1996-2010 as the Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation and from 2011-2016 as the Journal of Laboratory Automation (JALA). [14] SLAS Discovery was published from 1996-2016 as the Journal of Biomolecular Screening. [3] [15] Special collections of SLAS Technology and SLAS Discovery have been published in December 2020, which are available online as open-access articles for research related to COVID-19. [16] [17]

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References

  1. ↑ "SLAS Welcomes Michael A. Tarselli, Ph.D., as its New Scientific Director". SLAS News. August 6, 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  2. ↑ Meyerkord, Cheryl; Haian, Fu (February 13, 2012). "Harnessing the power of chemistry for biology and medicine". Chemical genomics. Cambridge University Press. p. 7. ISBN   9781139021500 . Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Announcing the 2018 SLAS Technology Ten: Translating Life Sciences Innovation". NewsWise. 24 January 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "SLAS Expands Global Operations with New Office in Europe". Select Science 20. 2 September 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  5. ↑ Stevenson, Robert L. (December 1, 2014). "SLAS2015: Come Transform Your Lab". American Laboratory. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  6. ↑ Dunlap, Lloyd (2015). "Show Preview: SLAS goes East". DDNews. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "SLAS 2021 Digital International Conference and Exhibition". 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  8. ↑ "SLAS 2022 International Conference and Exhibition". 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  9. ↑ "Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax (Form 990)" (PDF). Foundation Center. 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  10. ↑ Crook, Malcolm (April 2010). "ALA & SBS: Two Towers of Excellence to Become One". Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation. 15 (2): A9. doi: 10.1016/j.jala.2009.12.005 . S2CID   108749205.
  11. ↑ Bouley, Jeffrey (March 15, 2010). "ALA and SBS propose to merge as SLAS". DDNews. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  12. ↑ "SBS and ALA Set to Come Together as New Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening". R&D. May 12, 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  13. ↑ "Scientific Journals". SLAS. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  14. ↑ Chow, Edward Kai-Hua (February 2017). "SLAS TECHNOLOGY: Translating Life Sciences Innovation". SLAS Technology. 22 (1): 1–2. doi: 10.1177/2211068216677920 . PMID   28256964.
  15. ↑ Manning, Tom. "2016 Impact Factors Increase for SLAS Journals" (PDF). SLAS. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  16. ↑ Spicer TP (2020). "Drug Discovery Targeting COVID-19". SLAS Discov. 25 (10): 1095–1096. doi: 10.1177/2472555220970966 . PMC   8960151 . PMID   33215959.
  17. ↑ Chow EK, Wong PK, Ding X (2020). "Advances in Technology to Address COVID-19". SLAS Technol. 25 (6): 511–512. doi: 10.1177/2472630320969634 . PMC   8960230 . PMID   33215941.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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