Innovative diagnostic technology company takes gold and £50,000
In a nail biting finale to the Academy Awards Dinner last night, Randox Laboratories Ltd of Northern Ireland took the 2003 MacRobert Award gold medal and £50,000. At the glamorous event filled with royalty, decorations, the awarding of other Academy medals, corporate high flyers and top engineers, the four finalist companies had to wait it out until the coffee was served to find out who had taken the prize. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh presented the Randox team with the Award. The other finalists were Rolls-Royce plc for its short take-off, vertical landing propulsion system; FT Technologies Ltd for an acoustic resonant anemometer; and, Oxford Instruments (Superconductivity) for a 900MHz