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Instrument and lab automation companies at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026

Oct 14–15, 2026 London, UK ~3k attendees Website

82 instrument and lab automation companies are at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 — 17 presentations on the program and 73 with a booth in the exhibit hall. Most represented: MFX (1 on the program), Carterra (1 on the program), Nuclera (1 on the program). 82 of them have their own page in this guide. As of Oct 8, 2026.

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Showing 1–15 of 82 organizations
OrganizationELRIG Drug Discovery 2026 Attendance
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MFX
Stevenage, UK
Instruments & automation
Builds a closed, parallel instrument with continuous online monitoring for early cell therapy process development.
Talk
Thu Oct 15
2:30pm–3:00pm
Essentials for Founders: Getting Started, Financing, Product Development and Early Market Engagement
Breakthrough Zone - Bridging the critical gap between discovery and successful commercialisation
Panel
Thu Oct 15
3:30pm–4:00pm
Panel session - Beyond the Pitch: Navigating the Highs and Lows of Entrepreneurship
Breakthrough Zone - Bridging the critical gap between discovery and successful commercialisation · with Creasallis, Ignota Labs
Carterra
Salt Lake City, Utah
◆Conference Partner
Instruments & automationConference Partner
Makes high-throughput SPR platforms (LSA, LSA-XT, Ultra, Vega) for label-free screening and characterisation of large and small molecules.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth G08
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Wed Oct 14
11:50am–12:20pm
HT-SPR Technology as a Data Engine for AI-Driven Drug Design
How high-throughput surface plasmon resonance binding measurements can generate the large, consistent datasets that train AI models for drug design.
Nuclera
Cambridge, UK
◆Conference Partner
Instruments & automationConference Partner
eProtein Discovery benchtop system pairing cell-free expression with digital microfluidics to screen and produce proteins within two days.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth H04, H09
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Wed Oct 14
11:50am–12:20pm
Closing the AI Antibody DBTL Loop with Cell-Free Screening
Integrating experimental design, lab-in-the-loop and AI towards translatable discovery
Tecan
Männedorf, Switzerland
◆Conference Partner
Instruments & automationConference Partner
Swiss maker of automated liquid handling and laboratory instruments for research, drug discovery and clinical diagnostics.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth B03, B04
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Thu Oct 15
11:25am–11:55am
The Biology Is Only as Good as the Workflow: Multiomics Strategies for Biomarker Discovery and Utilisation in Precision Medicine
Why reading a patient's genes, proteins and metabolites together, with reliable automated sample handling, is needed to match drugs to individual biology.
Bio-Rad
Hercules, California
Instruments & automation
Develops and sells life science research and clinical diagnostic products, including droplet digital PCR for translational and clinical work.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth C13, C28
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Thu Oct 15
12:25pm–12:40pm
Precision That Translates: ddPCR from Discovery to Clinic
How droplet digital polymerase chain reaction counts molecules precisely enough to carry biomarker findings into clinical and manufacturing checks.
Bruker
Billerica, Massachusetts
Instruments & automation
Showing its biosensor range: SPR systems, switchSENSE and single-cell interaction cytometry for measuring binding kinetics, including on living cells.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth K14
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Wed Oct 14
12:50pm–12:55pm
Hamilton
Reno, Nevada
◆Conference Partner
Instruments & automationConference Partner
Automated liquid handling workstations such as Microlab STAR and VANTAGE, plus small devices, consumables and OEM components.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth G05, G24
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Wed Oct 14
11:50am–12:20pm
Automating In Vivo Antibody Discovery
How a manual B-cell processing workflow was automated to reduce operator variability and raise throughput while preserving cell quality.
with AstraZeneca
MaxCyte
Rockville, MD
Instruments & automation
ExPERT electroporation systems for cell engineering from discovery to manufacturing, plus SeQure genotoxicity services for cell and gene therapies.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth K33
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Wed Oct 14
12:50pm–12:55pm
Technology Spotlight
Translating ideas into therapies - Navigating the challenges
Nikon
Tokyo, Japan
Instruments & automation
Microscope imaging systems from confocal to super-resolution, with software and contract imaging services through its BioImaging Lab.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth B16
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Thu Oct 15
12:55pm–1:00pm
Technology Spotlight
The power of imaging in drug discovery and the clinic
Ramona Optics
Durham, NC
Instruments & automation
Makes Vireo, a benchtop multi-camera array microscope that images whole multiwell plates in minutes for live-cell and video-based screening assays.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth J21
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Thu Oct 15
12:40pm–12:55pm
Scalable whole-plate real-time video acquisition of calcium dynamics in 3D human neural microtissues for functional drug screening
Recording calcium signals across whole plates of laboratory-grown human brain-cell clusters to measure how compounds change their spontaneous network activity.
Revvity
Waltham, MA
Instruments & automation
Life science tools company selling high-content imaging, plate readers, automation, software, reagents and genomics products for drug discovery screening.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth E04
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Thu Oct 15
12:25pm–12:40pm
Industry Insider
Inclusive translational approaches to accelerate equitable neuroscience drug development
Sartorius
Göttingen, Germany
Instruments & automation
Lab instruments and consumables, including Octet biolayer interferometry and Incucyte live-cell analysis, plus bioprocess equipment for biologics manufacturing.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth K28, K29
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Wed Oct 14
4:15pm–4:30pm
From Molecule to Medicine: Navigating the Biosimilar Journey with Octet® BLI
How label-free biolayer interferometry measures binding strength and speed so a copy of a biologic drug can be shown to match its original.
SCIENION
Berlin, Germany
Instruments & automation
Builds non-contact dispensers for picolitre to nanolitre volumes, array readers and single-cell dispensing, plus assay development and contract manufacturing.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth C18, C19, C20
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Workshop
Thu Oct 15
1:25pm–2:05pm
Workshop
From microbes to medicines
SPT Labtech
Melbourn, UK
Instruments & automation
Makes automated sample management, low-volume liquid handling and sample preparation systems for screening, genomics, assay development and cryo-EM.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth J14, J15
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Wed Oct 14
11:50am–12:05pm
An Integrated, High-Throughput Patient-Derived Organoid Platform for Long-Term Phenotypic Assays and Complex Cell-Based Drug Discovery
How automated culture, CRISPR editing and AI image analysis let tiny patient-derived tissue models be tested over weeks against single drugs and combinations.
Trince
Ghent, Belgium
Instruments & automation
Ghent University spin-off making LumiPore, a laser photoporation platform that delivers molecules into hard-to-transfect adherent and suspension cells.
Booth
Exhibiting at Booth J20
Wed, Oct 148:00am–7:00pmThu, Oct 158:00am–4:00pm
Talk
Wed Oct 14
4:15pm–4:30pm
Photoporation Enables Plate-Based and Spatially Controlled CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing in Adherent Cell Models
Using laser-activated nanoparticles to open cell membranes briefly so CRISPR editing tools enter cells growing in ordinary assay plates, even in chosen areas.

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