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Instrument and lab automation companies at Discovery on Target 2026

Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2026 Boston, MA ~1.1k attendees Website

18 instrument and lab automation companies are at Discovery on Target 2026 — 5 presentations on the program and 9 with a booth in the exhibit hall. Most represented: Portal Biotechnologies (1 on the program), Carterra (1 on the program), lino Biotech (1 on the program). 10 of them have their own page in this guide. As of Oct 8, 2026.

All 510 organizations at Discovery on Target 2026 →

Topic
Top represented
Showing 1–18 of 18 organizations
OrganizationDiscovery on Target 2026 Attendance
Instruments & automation
Mechanical cell-engineering systems that deliver RNA, proteins, gene editors and other cargo into live cells.
Chair
Thu Oct 1
2:20pm–2:25pm
Chairperson's Remarks
Plenary
Panel
Thu Oct 1
2:25pm–3:20pm
Starting Up: Translating Lab Ideas into Commercial Impact
Plenary · with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kiral Medicines, AIRNA +3 more
Carterra
Salt Lake City, UT
◆Corporate Sponsor
Instruments & automationCorporate Sponsor
Makes high-throughput surface plasmon resonance (HT-SPR) instruments for screening and characterising antibody and small-molecule binding.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 406
Tue, Sep 293:50pm–7:00pmWed, Sep 3011:05am–4:50pmThu, Oct 111:05am–2:15pm
Talk
Wed Sep 30
3:35pm–4:05pm
HT-SPR Technology as a Data Engine for AI-Driven Drug Design
Innovative Discovery Technologies
lino Biotech
Adliswil, Switzerland
Instruments & automation
Makes the MACS Matchmaker, a label-free binding instrument based on focal molography; a Miltenyi Biotec company.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 407
Tue, Sep 293:50pm–7:00pmWed, Sep 3011:05am–4:50pmThu, Oct 111:05am–2:15pm
Talk
Wed Sep 30
3:35pm–4:05pm
From Living-Cell GPCRs to On-DNA DEL Hits: Label-Free Kinetics without Purification
Lead Generation Strategies
Nuclera
Cambridge, UK
◆Corporate Sponsor
Instruments & automationCorporate Sponsor
Makes the eProtein Discovery system, an automated benchtop platform for screening protein expression, plus antibody services.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 305
Tue, Sep 293:50pm–7:00pmWed, Sep 3011:05am–4:50pmThu, Oct 111:05am–2:15pm
Talk
Wed Sep 30
10:35am–11:05am
Closing the AI Data Loop: Automated High-Throughput Triage of in silico Antibody Hits
Antibodies Against Challenging Targets
Instruments & automation
Makes surface plasmon resonance instruments, including SPR microscopy, for binding kinetics and cell-based measurements.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 307
Tue, Sep 293:50pm–7:00pmWed, Sep 3011:05am–4:50pmThu, Oct 111:05am–2:15pm
Fidabio
Copenhagen, Denmark
Instruments & automation
Maker of the Fida instrument, which measures binding affinity, size and stability of biomolecules in solution by flow-induced dispersion analysis.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 322
Tue, Sep 293:50pm–7:00pmWed, Sep 3011:05am–4:50pmThu, Oct 111:05am–2:15pm
Lightcast Discovery
Cambridge, UK
◆Corporate Sponsor
Instruments & automationCorporate Sponsor
Makes Envisia, a droplet-based system that screens and analyses the function of single cells.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 410
Tue, Sep 293:50pm–7:00pmWed, Sep 3011:05am–4:50pmThu, Oct 111:05am–2:15pm
RedShiftBio
Boxborough, MA
◆Corporate Sponsor
Instruments & automationCorporate Sponsor
Microfluidic modulation spectroscopy instruments and lab services for measuring protein structure, stability and aggregation.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 404
Tue, Sep 293:50pm–7:00pmWed, Sep 3011:05am–4:50pmThu, Oct 111:05am–2:15pm
TubeWriter
Austin, TX
◆Corporate Sponsor
Instruments & automationCorporate Sponsor
Maker of benchtop systems that print barcodes and text straight onto lab tubes, vials and plates instead of labels.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 211
Tue, Sep 293:50pm–7:00pmWed, Sep 3011:05am–4:50pmThu, Oct 111:05am–2:15pm
Unchained Labs
Pleasanton, CA
◆Corporate Sponsor
Instruments & automationCorporate Sponsor
Maker of analytical instruments and automation for biologics characterization, measuring protein stability, aggregation, sizing and concentration.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth 501
Tue, Sep 293:50pm–7:00pmWed, Sep 3011:05am–4:50pmThu, Oct 111:05am–2:15pm
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IBA
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Attending
On the meeting’s published attendee list
Illumina
San Diego, CA
Instruments & automation
Maker of DNA sequencing and array-based genomics systems and reagents.
Attending
On the meeting’s published attendee list
Inventia Life Science
Sydney, Australia
Instruments & automation
Maker of the RASTRUM 3D bioprinting platform for building reproducible 3D cell models for drug discovery.
Attending
On the meeting’s published attendee list
LICORbio
Lincoln, Nebraska
Instruments & automation
Makes imaging systems for Western blots and other assays, with analysis software and reagents.
Attending
On the meeting’s published attendee list
MR
MR Resources
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Instruments & automation
Supplies remanufactured NMR systems, parts and probes, with repair and service.
Attending
On the meeting’s published attendee list
nanoscaleLABS
Fairfax, Virginia
Instruments & automation
Supplies and resells precision instruments for biomedical research.
Attending
On the meeting’s published attendee list
Trasis
Ans, Belgium
Instruments & automation
Belgian maker of automated synthesizers and equipment for producing radiopharmaceuticals.
Attending
On the meeting’s published attendee list
Trince
Ghent, Belgium
Instruments & automation
Belgian maker of LumiPore, a laser-based photoporation system for getting molecules into hard-to-transfect and primary cells.
Attending
On the meeting’s published attendee list

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