MDS Science Advancing Health 2008 Annual Report
Company Profile 2008 Financial Highlights Our Businesses Message to Shareholders Key Focus Areas PDF Index
Key Focus Areas - Innovations
Key Focus Areas - Operational Excellence
Key Focus Areas - Globalization
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key focus areas – Innovation

The key to progress for life sciences companies such as MDS is innovation. It is the source of new opportunities. MDS has a track record of being at the forefront of innovation, and continues to make significant R&D investments to fuel our innovation engine.

Mass-Spectrometry Software
MDS Analytical Technologies’ Analyst® 1.5 software, which runs our mass-spectrometry systems, allows researchers to screen more analytes with greater accuracy and precision. This will serve the food and environmental industries as they will now be able to screen for more than 600 contaminants in a single run.

ECLA Testing
MDS Pharma Services now offers its bioanalysis clients the benefits of electrochemilumiscent assay (ECLA) testing at its laboratory in Montreal.

Vital Research
MDS Nordion has established a Molecular Imaging Centre of Excellence to advance cardiology research at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.

Study software: Apollo is a unified, Web-based study-management software tool for secure and transparent real-time tracking of study samples and results.

 
Our Businesses - MDS Analytical Technologies
Our Businesses - MDS Nordion
Our Businesses - MDS Pharma Services
Key Focus Areas - Innovation
Key Focus Areas - Operational Excellence
Key Focus Areas - Globalization