The 2025 CiteAb Awards Presentations at AACR
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In this blog:
- We meet the winners of the 2025 CiteAb Awards
- We share the presentations at AACR
- Learn more about our awards
Last week, the CiteAb team attended AACR in San Diego! This event was a fantastic few days, engaging with current partners, and meeting new suppliers.
It also provided a wonderful opportunity to meet with the winners of the 2025 CiteAb Awards in person and present their trophies and certificates.
The CiteAb Awards continue to celebrate the very best in the research reagent sector. 17 different organisations were recognised in this year’s awards, and the calibre of nominations made our independent judging panels jobs even more difficult!
You can see the full list of winners and more details about the categories over on our awards website.
CiteAb Awards Overview
In 2025, we featured 14 award categories, spanning innovative research applications and educational resources, to companies growing their citation share in specific research areas or with particular product types.
We received over 100 nominations, and our independent judging panels worked hard to evaluate entries in the nomination-based categories. The competition reflected the high standard of work across the sector.
For our data-driven awards, we used the CiteAb database to identify companies demonstrating significant growth and impact through reagent citation counts. Categories spanned antibodies, multiplex immunoassays, growth factors, and more.
Day-by-Day Award Presentations at AACR
Day 1:
To kick off the event, we met with Abcam to present the Antibody Supplier Succeeding in Genetics Research Award. They were also named as Highly Commended in the Recombinant Antibody Supplier of the Year category.
Following this, we were delighted to hand over the Researchers’ Choice Award to Proteintech. This Award asks researchers to nominate a company that has impressed them in the last year. As well as this, Proteintech were named as Highly Commended in the Educational Resource of the Year Award for the Proteintech Learning Portal.
We wrapped up the day by handing over an Award to Leinco Technologies who were highly commended in the Researchers’ Choice category, demonstrating support for scientists in their work.
Day 2:
On Monday morning in Chicago we started the day by meeting with the Jackson ImmunoResearch team, who were named as highly commended in the Secondary Antibody Supplier of the Year Award.
We then met with ABclonal, who were awarded Highly Commended in the Antibody Supplier to Watch in Europe category. As a pivotal market in the antibody space, they displayed impressive growth in citation count here.
We then handed over an Award to MilliporeSigma, who were named Highly Commended in the Fasting Growing Bioactive Small Molecule in Cancer Research for their A9789 Anisomycin from Streptomyces griseolus product.
In the afternoon we met with Bio-Techne. Tocris Bioscience, a Bio-Techne brand, were recipients of the highly contested Innovation Award. Their ProtiFect STAR™ Protein Transfection Reagent helps researchers with intracellular protein delivery.
Furthermore, R&D Systems were Highly Commended in the Growth Factor Supplier Succeeding in Stem Cell Research Award.
We wrapped up the day meeting with Thermo Fisher Scientific. Peprotech, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, were named as the Growth Factor Supplier Succeeding in Stem Cell Research. Thermo Fisher Scientific were also Highly Commended in the Multiplex Immunoassay Supplier to Watch Award and named winners in the Secondary Antibody Supplier of the Year Award.
Day 3:
For our final day at AACR, we started meeting with the team at Akoya Biosciences. They were named as the Multiplex Immunoassay Supplier to Watch, for their increase in multiplex immunoassay citations.
Finally, we saw Cell Signaling Technology, who were the Recombinant Antibody Supplier of the Year, Highly Commended in the Antibody Supplier Succeeding in Genetics Research, and Highly Commended in the Innovation Award for InTraSeq™ – demonstrating support for scientists across multiple areas!
Other 2025 Winners
Other awardees not pictured included:
- Adrian Villalba Felipe et al. – Image of the Year – Winner
- YCharOS – Educational Resource of the Year– Winner
- Carl Laflamme – Significant Individual Impact Award– WinnerAgrisera – Antibody Supplier Succeeding in Plant Science – Winner
- Affinity Biosciences – Antibody Supplier to Watch in Europe– Winner
- TREX – Novel Life Science Application Award– Winner
- PhytoAB – Antibody Supplier Succeeding in Plant Science – Highly Commended
- Selleck Chemicals – Fastest Growing Bioactive Small Molecule in Cancer Research– Winner
Thank You to Our Community
A huge thank you to everyone who submitted nominations, shared feedback, or supported the CiteAb Awards in 2025.
Our awards wouldn’t be possible without our independent judging panels and all those who submit nominations. It is a pleasure to be able to celebrate such impressive achievement in the sector, together.
Congratulations again to all our winners — we’re already excited for what’s to come in 2026, our 12th year of the CiteAb Awards!
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- Skye and the CiteAb Team
