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    Lab of the Future | A New Short Course On Demand from SLAS

    en-usOctober 24, 2022
    New Matter: Inside the Minds of SLAS Scientists
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    About this Episode

    SLAS has recently launched Lab of the Future, a new short course on demand offering to educate new laboratory technologies and applications to make any laboratory more advanced! Lab of the Future content creators, Mario Richter, Ph.D. (AbbVie), and Joshua Kangas, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon University), join New Matter Host and SLAS Scientific Manager Hannah Rosen, Ph.D., to share an overview of the new short course to cover:

    • Who can benefit from this course
    • What topics will be covered
    • What new skills participants can learn

    To learn more about the Lab of the Future short course including availability, pricing and the instructors, visit:
    https://www.slas.org/education/slas-short-courses/lab-of-the-future/

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    SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening) is an international professional society of academic, industry and government life sciences researchers and the developers and providers of laboratory automation technology. The SLAS mission 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.  For more information about SLAS, visit www.slas.org.

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