Eppendorf Research® 3 neo Pipette Wins Two Prestigious International Awards

Hamburg, July 1, 2026 – Eppendorf today announced that its Eppendorf Research 3 neo mechanical pipettes have received two major international awards, underscoring their strong adoption in laboratories worldwide and outstanding product design quality.
 
The Research 3 neo has been voted Best New General Lab Product 2025 in the SelectScience® Scientists’ Choice Awards®, where scientists and lab professionals around the world nominate, review, and vote for the laboratory products that make the biggest difference to their work. This award reflects direct, independent feedback from the scientific community and recognizes the Research 3 neo pipette line as one of the most impactful new solutions for general lab use. 

In addition, the pipette line has been recognized with the Red Dot Design Award: Product Design 2026. The Red Dot jury of international experts evaluates submissions based on criteria such as design quality, ergonomics, innovation, and functionality. The Research 3 neo pipette was honored in the Product Design category for its ergonomic form, intuitive handling, and user-focused design features tailored to everyday laboratory workflows.

Combining high precision and accuracy with low operating forces, fast volume adjustment, and customizable settings, the Research 3 neo pipettes are engineered to support reproducible results and user comfort in routine and demanding lab applications alike. Features such as the temporary adjustment setting, 4-digit volume displays, and a robust construction designed for long-term reliability further contribute to their strong acceptance among users.

“These awards are especially meaningful because they come from two sides of what matters most to us: the scientists who use our products every day and international experts in design,” said Simon Plate, Global Marketing Manager, Eppendorf SE. “The Research 3 neo pipette embodies our commitment to enabling better research outcomes through reliable, ergonomic, and thoughtfully designed instruments.”
 
Further information about the Eppendorf Research 3 neo pipettes is available at www.eppendorf.link/research3neo
 
About the Eppendorf Group
Eppendorf is a leading international life science company that develops, manufactures, and distributes instruments, consumables, and services for use in laboratories around the world.

The product portfolio of the business units Liquid Handling & Consumables, Separation & Instrumentation and Bioprocess includes, for example, pipettes, pipette tips, centrifuges, mixers, ultra-freezers and bioreactors for cell and gene research. In addition, Eppendorf offers a wide range of high-quality consumables. In fiscal year 2025, the Eppendorf Group recorded consolidated revenue of €924 million and invested €60.9 million in research and development (R&D).

Eppendorf products are used in academic or industrial research laboratories, such as pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, and food industries, as well as clinical, environmental, forensic, and industrial laboratories for process analysis, production, and quality assurance.

Since 1945, the Eppendorf Group has been headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, and today operates production and R&D sites in Europe, Asia and North America and has subsidiaries in 30 countries. Today, the Group employs more than 4,000 people worldwide. They all act in accordance with the purpose of the company's founders: to improve human living conditions.
 
About the SelectScience® Scientists' Choice Awards®
The annual Scientists' Choice Awards® celebrate the laboratory products and manufacturers that make a biggest difference to the science industry. Scientists are invited to nominate, vote and review online. SelectScience began the Scientists’ Choice Awards in 2007 to enable scientists to voice their opinions on the best new laboratory products in different categories. Nominations are collected and assessed by SelectScience editors and the most popular nominations are put to public vote. Scientists are then invited to vote for their favorite products within each category, with the winners announced at scientific conferences throughout the year.
 
About Red Dot
The Red Dot Design Award is one of the most prestigious design competitions worldwide. Participants can submit entries in three disciplines: products, brands and communication projects, as well as prototypes and design concepts. Each year, a jury convenes for each award category to individually assess the submissions and subsequently decide on the awarding of distinctions.

The Red Dot Design Award has a 70-year history: in 1955, a jury convened for the first time to evaluate the best designs of that era. In the 1990s, Red Dot CEO Professor Dr. Peter Zec developed the name and brand of the award.