Piero Zucchelli

Andrew Alliance SA develops liquid handling solutions. Its product, Andrew, is a novel liquid handling robot designed for pipetting process. The firm's products include Andrew models, consumable dominos, protocol design, and enabling accessories. The company was founded by Piero Zucchelli, Giorgio Horak, and Antoine Jordan in March 2011 and is headquartered in Vernier, Switzerland.

SpinX designs and develops products which exploit its innovative adaptive microfluidics technology. The firm's platform offers a fully integrated solution which drastically reduces manual work, while avoiding complex and costly robotics, and can be used in a wide variety of applications, from drug discovery to consumer diagnostics. The reduced consumption of samples, reagents and other consumables enables increased throughput and results in significant cost savings. Additionally, the platform enables sophisticated interleaved liquid handling and detection steps not possible with other systems. SpinX is an international, multidisciplinary - but highly focused - team with world-class competences in microfludics, opto-electronics, molecular biology, biochemistry and software. The founders of SpinX Technologies, Bart Van de Vyver, Ph.D and Piero Zucchelli, Ph.D., worked together for 10 years on various research projects at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. They have conducted leading-edge academic research in particle physics and instrumentation and managed numerous state-of-the-art research projects. The SpinX Board of Directors and Advisory Board include experts from Europe and the United States, from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines covering drug discovery, diagnostics, microfluidics and physics.

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare engages in the promotion of scientific culture. Its activities include research, exhibitions, and events organization. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Frascati, Italy.

Slac National Accelerator Laboratory is a research facility that explores the workings of the universe at various scales and invents tools used by scientists worldwide. The private company is based in Menlo Park, CA and is home to the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser, which was repurposed from their original 2-mile-long particle accelerator built for particle physics research. The lab's Office of Communications is dedicated to providing accurate and up-to-date information about the lab and its research to the media and making their experts available for interviews.

European Organization for Nuclear Research engages in the research of physics. Its main area of research is particle physics which is the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces acting between them. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.