Alphinity's TFFi single-use tangential flow filtration system, paired with the PIXER pump, has been named winner of the 2026 INTERPHEX Best Technologies Innovation Award.
The award was announced on the opening day of INTERPHEX 2026 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York on 21 April. The Best Technologies Innovation Award is one of six categories selected by an independent industry panel from across the show floor, and recognizes "cutting-edge technologies, either new technologies or a novel implementation of existing technologies, that has the potential to change the way pharma and bio companies operate."
Awarded to Alphinity for TFFi with PIXER pump · Javits Center, New York · 21 April 2026
The recognition is for the pairing. TFFi is the first single-use tangential flow filtration system designed from the ground up for fragile modalities: viral vectors, mRNA, lipid nanoparticles, and the cell and gene therapy class that legacy TFF equipment was never built to handle. PIXER is the low-pulsation pump that drives it. Together they address three failure modes that have historically forced gene therapy teams to accept yield loss or move off TFF entirely: pulsation, shear, and dead volume. Each is solved at the architecture level rather than worked around with operator skill or recovery procedures.
That architectural approach is what the panel responded to. It is also what customers running fragile-modality processes have been asking for, and what the team has spent the last several development cycles refining.
The 2026 awards recognize six exhibitors across product, process, and biotech innovation. Alphinity is honored to be named alongside the other category winners:
Thank you to the INTERPHEX panel, and to every customer, partner, and engineer who has tested TFFi, asked the hard questions, and pushed the team to be specific about what the system can and cannot do. The award belongs to all of you.
Special thanks to the Alphinity engineering team in Carson City, Nevada and Jüri, Estonia, who designed, prototyped, and built the system over more development cycles than anyone outside the building will ever see.