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Maine Center for Enterprise Development
c/o Univ. of S. Maine
P.O. Box 9300
Portland, ME 04104-9300
P: 207. 228 . 8524
F: 207. 228 . 8526Street
address:
70 Falmouth St
Portland, ME 04103
(Bio-Science Building, research wing, 2nd floor)
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Click on a firm below for a more detailed description.
Ascendant Energy
Consumer Energy Research Corp (CERC)
Crinkl LLC
Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology
Green Pod, LLC
GiddyUp Business Development
Partners,
LLC
Identity Cops
Invisible Guides
iSagacity
JewelDust, LL
Journey
Gift Bags®
Life Story Commons
mCaddie/ mGolfCo
Open Gate Technologies, Inc.
ORPC, Maine
Planet Botanicals
Sebek Technologies (formerly Benric
Technologies)
SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise)
Silver Performance Gear
Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
The SunriseGuide
USM -
Professor Mustafa Guvench
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BioAnalyte, Inc
Brims Ness Corporation
CAPE Technologies, LLC
CrossRate Technology
Frontier Energy
Holy Terra Products, Inc.
MediCreative
New England Classic
Terralink Software System, inc.
Dr. Alex Waldrop
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The Affiliates Program was established to provide some of
the advantages of business incubation to start-up technology
companies not in residency with the Maine Center for
Enterprise Development. Typically, affiliates are early
stage companies that cannot afford to be on site or are
situated out of the Portland region. Affiliates may take
advantage of use of our meeting space, a professional
staff, a supportive client network, access and notice
to industry related seminars and linkages to the university
system. Affiliates also increase their visibility with a
direct link to their website from our client page and
newsworthy notice in the small business update section of
our monthly e-newsletter.
Affiliates pay an annual fee of $400 in order to take
advantage of the many services provided at the Maine Center
for Enterprise Development. For more information on the
services provided, contact MCED President John Ferland at
228-8524 or email
jferland@mced.biz
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Company Name: Ascendant Energy
Primary Contact: Chris Straka
Email:
cstraka@ascendantenergy.com
Website:
www.ascendantenergy.com
Ascendant Energy of Rockland and Portland is developing a
solar cogenerator™ to provide heat and power for large
commercial buildings with flat roofs using proprietary
photovoltaic/thermal modules. Owner Chris Straka was awarded
his 3rd MTI seed grant in 2005 and a development grant in
July 2006 for design refinement, installation testing, UL
and other certifications.
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Company Name:
Consumer
Energy Research Corp (CERC)
Primary Contact:
William
Sulinski
Email:
wsulinski@heat-safe.com
Website:
www.heat-safe.com
Consumer Energy Research Corp (CERC) was the winner of the 2006 USM student business competition.
The principal is William Sulinski. The company won their
second MTI seed grant award from Maine Technology Institute
(MTI) in Information Technology
to develop their
prototype design of Heat-Safe, a remote sensing device that
will supplement home heating oil tank gauges by relaying
low-oil and low temperature alarms to third-parties
(which
will enable oil retailers to significantly
decrease their cost of delivering oil.)
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Company Name: Crinkl
LLC
Primary Contact: William Zeitz
Email:
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Crinkl is
developing recyclable clothing for toddlers and young
children. The principal is William Zeitz.
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Company Name: Fulbright Academy of Science &
Technology
Primary Contact: Eric Howard
Email:
ehoward@FulbrightAcademy.org.
Website:
www.fulbrightacademy.org
Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology is an
international network of Fulbright scholars and other
leaders in scientific and technical fields. It started in
2003 as an informal network of the alumni of the Fulbright
scholarship exchange program of academics, teachers,
students, and professionals. FAST now has individual and
institutional members worldwide. It organizes international
conferences and workshops, and has been working with
numerous government agencies, corporations, and
organizations to build expert groups and conduct initiatives
that utilize the expertise of Fulbright scholars in science
and technology fields. Eric Howard is the Executive
Director.
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Company
Name:
Giddyup
Business Development Partners, LLC
Primary Contact: Simon Baier
Email:
simon@GiddyupBizDev.com
Website:
www.GiddyupBizDev.com
Giddyup provides rapid ebusiness strategy and development,
and integrated marketing services for early-stage or
turnaround situations.
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Company Name: Green Pod, LLC
Primary Contact: Paul Desjardins
Email:
pad2@suscom-maine.net
Green Pod, LLC of Harpswell created by Paul Desjardins is
developing a design and manufacturing business producing
energy efficient modular homes. The company will offer a
simple, economical, and affordable solar home with
integrated design concepts networking battery based wireless
tools and technology to reduce cost and space.
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Company Name: Identity Cops
Primary Contact: Rebecca Weinstein
Email:
rebecca@idcops.com
Website:
www.idcops.com
Identity Cops of Westbrook developed an innovative, web-based
technology to prevent and remedy identity theft and
electronic privacy invasions. It is the only technology of
its kind, taking a preemptive step to search for all
potential sources of privacy invasion and prevent identity
theft from causing harm. Their patent pending PrivacyProBot™
computer technology searches hundreds-of-thousands of
electronic databases, identifying potential security
breaches. It then automatically notifies subscribers when
they may be at risk and provides automatic and affirmative
remedial options. Principals are Rebecca Weinstein,
President, Justin Page, VP of Technology, and Robert
Chiozzi, VP of Corporate Development.
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Company Name:
Invisible
Guides
Primary Contact:
Aaron
Meil
Email:
ari@arimeil.com
Website:
www.invisibleguides.com
Invisible
Guides are user-created urban guides offering personal
experiences of small cities both online and in print. The
company’s focus on engagement of the local creative
community finds that intersection where travel guides and
travel writing meet.
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Company Name: iSagacity
Primary Contact: Peter Millett
Email:
pmillett@isagacity.com
Website:
www.isagacity.com
iSagacity
is a leading force in the delivery of predictive condition
monitoring technology and specialized engineering software.
Their software and services enhance the performance of a
variety of industries by increasing productivity, promoting
operating efficiency, and providing early detection and
diagnosis of abnormal process conditions.
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Company Name: JewelDust, LLC
Primary Contact: Bryan
Hamel
Email:
bryan.hamel@gmail.com
Website:
www.jeweldust.com
JewelDust, LLC is developing a line of men's toiletries
targeted towards generation X & Y male groups. Jewel Dust is
their first product, a fragrant men's body powder that will
keep skin dry, comfortable, and smelling great. All
manufacturing and order fulfillment of Jewel Dust is
automated and outsourced within the U.S.A. Jewel Dust
is sold through the website.
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Company Name:
Journey Gift Bags®
Primary Contact: Nora Irvine
Email:
Journeygiftbags@aol.com
Website:
www.journeygiftbags.comJourney Giftbags® are
beautiful, reusable fabric gift bags lined with satin and
tied with a shimmery ribbon. Nestled in a fabric pocket
attached to each bag is a 24-page Journey Card in which
each successive giver writes a message to the next recipient
as the bag is passed along over the years. These "green"
gift bags, created and patented by Nora Irvine as an elegant
solution to throw-away wrap, are available in three
sizes and many fabric choices.
The Finest in "Green" Gift Wrap
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Company Name:
Life Story Commons
Primary Contact:
Robert Atkinson
Email:
Atkinson@usm.maine.edu
Professor Robert Atkinson, a USM faculty member, is
developing a social networking web site for senior
citizens/aging boomers featuring a large archive of life
stories and a methodology for collecting life stories.
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Company Name: mCaddie/ mGolfCo
Primary Contact: Kurtis Petersons
Email:
kp@mcaddie.com
Website:
http://www.mcaddie.com
Competing in (and WINNING!) the USM 7th
annual business plan in 2008 as "mGolfCo," this start-up
company's beta product is mCaddie, which introduces
wireless connectivity to the golf course. The company
provides golfers with cell phone access to an electronic
golf scorecard and handicap tracking system. It will
also create a social networking capability and wireless
link to the course pro shop and food service.
Additionally the technology will collect statistical
data that mCaddie will use to attract advertisers.
Accessible through the mobile Internet, mCaddie is also
being developed for apple's iPhone and Google's Android
platforms.
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Company Name: ORPC, Maine
Primary Contact: Chris Sauer
Email: csauer@oceanrenewablepower.com
Website:
www.oceanrenewablepower.com/home.htm
Ocean Renewable Power Company, LLC (ORPC) was formed to
generate reliable, competitive, emission-free electricity
from ocean resources. They are developing proprietary
modular ocean current generation (OCGEN tm )
technology and incorporating it into environmentally
superior, financially successful, ocean and tidal current
generation projects.
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Company Name: Open Gate Technologies, Inc.
Primary Contact: Ben Alexander
Email:
ben@opengatesms.com
Website:
www.opengatesms.com
Open Gate Technologies, Inc. of Portland was created by Ben
Alexander to develop a product known as PayText™, a process
by which mobile phone users can conduct financial
transactions by entering text message commands on their cell
phone. The company has won two MTI Seed Grant awards to
develop and prototype web applications that enable remote
database communications using Short Message Service (SMS) or
text messaging.
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Company Name: Planet Botanicals
Primary Contact: Michele Gilfoil
Email:
michele@planetbotanicals.com
Website:
www.planetbotanicals.com
Planet Botanicals is a USDA certified organic manufacturer
of skincare products that incorporate unique, nutrient-rich
and certified organic plant-based oils and flower extracts
from Africa and around the world. Planet Botanicals
practices fair trade and environmentally sustainable
principles. They partner directly with local producers,
women’s shea butter cooperatives and artisan distillers on
the basis of fair trade relationships and are committed to
sustainable environmental ingredient sourcing and production
methods. All products are manufactured at our
facility at the Dana Warp Mill in Westbrook, Maine.
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Company Name: Sebek Technologies
(formerly Benric Technologies)
Primary Contact: Fred Richardson
Email:
Sebekmaine@aol.com
Sebek Technologies of Portland has successfully worked with
the University of Maine Department of Engineering and the
Maine Patent Program toward commercialization of an
anti-spill device that will prevent accidental discharges
during the refueling of boats and targeted at the
recreational boating market. The device allows the tank to
close when the gas level is full, causing the gas pump to
shut off. Founder Fred Richardson was awarded funding for
engineering research, prototyping, and field-testing from a
Maine Technology Institute grant.
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Company Name: SIFE
(Students in Free Enterprise)
Primary Contact: John Voyer
Email:
voyer@usm.maine.edu
Website:
(national)
www.SIFE.org
or (USM local)http://www.usm.maine.edu/sb/news/news_0308.html
The USM chapter of SIFE
is headquartered in the MCED incubator.
Founded in 1975 and active on more
than 1,500 college and university campuses in 37 countries,
SIFE is a nonprofit organization that works in partnership
with business and higher education to provide students the
opportunity to take what they are learning in the classroom
and apply it to real-life situations, using their knowledge
to better their communities through educational outreach
projects.
2007-2008 officers:
President: Buddy Lalemand
khristopher.lalemand@maine.edu
Vice Pres: Sara
Willey sara.willey@maine.edu
Treasurer: Michael Corson
mcorson1@maine.rr.com
Secretary: Nevin Duffey
nevin.duffeyzardkoohi@maine.edu
Faculty advisor: John Voyer
voyer@usm.maine.edu
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Company Name: Silver Performance Gear
Primary Contact: A Silver
Email:
asilvr@copper.net
Silver
Performance Gear is developing high end women’s athletic
clothing with new interactive materials. Principal is A.
Silver. The company will design and manufacturer
athletic apparel for well-endowed women and hard–to-fit
women. They seek to solve the problem of inadequate breast
support for active well-endowed women and transform the
sports bra market. SPG’s value proposition includes using
smart fabrics and developing design patents to truly offer a
new generation product to a growing market sector.
The
company was winner of the USM Student Business Plan
Competition 2007.
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Company Name: Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc.
Primary Contact: Richard Lugg
Email:
rlugg@sonicblueaerospace.com
Website:
www.sonicblueaerospace.com
Sonic Blue Aerospace, Inc has developed technologies and
intellectual property in new hybrid jet/electric vertical
take-off and landing propulsion systems, energy generation,
high-speed aerodynamics, advanced composite structures and
related technologies. Founded by Richard Lugg, the
management and technical design teams are based in Maine and
Southern California, with supporting engineering groups in
Langley, Va.; Great Britain; Boston, Mass.; and Arlington,
Va.
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Company Name: The SunriseGuide
Primary Contact: Heather Chandler
Email:
hchandler@thesunriseguide.com
Website:
www.thesunriseguide.com
President Heather Chandler developed a new resource guide
for healthy & sustainable living in southern Maine, modeled
after successful publications in the Pacific Northwest and
the Minneapolis area (think ‘coupon book meets “How to save
the planet”). First published on Dec 1, 2006, the book
includes six chapters of content on how to live an
eco-friendly life in southern Maine such as where to find
the farmer’s markets, the tax incentives currently available
for energy efficient home renovations, public transit
resources, how to compost and more. The guide also includes
200 valuable coupons for local green businesses, products
and services. The purpose of the coupon book is to help
readers understand the links between buying behaviors,
energy use, lifestyle and environmental impact, and provide
incentives that encourage sustainable choices. The book is
published annually and currently available in 50 retail
outlets in southern Maine. It is also sold as a fundraiser
to benefit school, church and non-profit groups.
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Company Name:
USM - Dr. Mustafa Guvench
Primary Contact: Leonard Agneta,
Director, Maine Patent Program
Email:
patent@usm.maine.edu
FMI:
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here>
Dr. Mustafa Guvench, a professor of electrical
engineering at the University of Southern Maine, has
extensive research experience in microelectronics and
semiconductor device technologies. His most recent
research efforts have focused on developing an improved
microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) gas sensor.
Based on a comparison with other state of the art sensors,
his Rapid Detection MEMS Gas Sensor represents a
breakthrough in gas sensor technology.
Like many competing gas sensors, this
sensor monitors, detects, and identifies a variety of gas
analytes. However, Guvench’s improved rapid detection
sensor identifies a wider range of gases, consumes less
power, and is more easily manufactured. The sensor is
also expected to be more resistant to drift and respond more
quickly because of its advanced circuitry and proprietary
shuttle heating element chamber design.
The sensor may be used in dosimeter and
rapid detector applications requiring high durability,
improved specificity, and increased sensitivity at low cost.
FMI on Dr. Guvench & his work with MEMS sensors visit,
http://usm.maine.edu/engineering/News/Old%20News/0704guvenchmemsgrant.html
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Inquiries about the licensing
availability of this technology can be made to the Maine
Patent Program. 874-6521
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Company Name: BioAnalyte, Inc.
Email:
sales@bioanalyte.com
Website:
www.BioAnalyte.com
BioAnalyte, Inc. of Portland provides the tools and talent to
obtain and interpret bioanalytical data. Peter Leopold,
Ph.D. is president and chief executive officer. BioANalyte
makes and sells ProTrawer™ and ProAngler™ data reduction and
visualization packages as well as Regatta™, a biomarker
discovery platform. BioAnalyte software reads raw data from
Waters, ThermoFinnigan, Applied BioSystems and Bruker mass
spectrometers. BioAnalyte has also pioneer the proNets™
licensing system which enables the wide spread
redistribution of software-with-data. proNets has been
nominated for Product of the Year by the Maine Software
Developers' Association (MESDA.) BioAnalyte customers
include the federal and state labs, contract research
organizations, private research institutes, biotech
companies, and universities. BioAnalyte has passed an
aggressive security screen and is deemed mission critical
for homeland defense by the FBI. BioAnalyte is open for
investment and is represented by Chris Chandler, Esq., of
Curtis Thaxter of Portland.
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Company Name: Brims Ness Corporation
Website:
www.brimsness.com
Brims Ness Corporation developed sensor technologies for
detecting fluid-borne contaminants. While at MCED, principal
John H. Merrill collaborated with the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst to develop its low-cost, continuous,
on-line monitors. BNC has the technology to provide
protection for lead-removing, nitrate-removing and
arsenic-removing filtration systems. BNC received a federal
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the
National Science Foundation and a development award from the
Maine Technology Institute (MTI). It also participated in
the MTI’s Tech Tracker program and the Maine Investment
Exchange Forum (MIX). The company had research relationships
with the Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico and
Oklahoma State University.
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Company Name: CAPE Technologies, LLC
Website:
www.cape-tech.com
CAPE Technologies, LLC of South Portland created the world’s
first practical immunoassay-based test kits for dioxin and
dioxin-like PCBs. The kits provide near real time analysis
in a simple field lab, at lower cost, with less equipment,
and with fewer people, than conventional methods.
CAPE's dioxin kit is the only rapid dioxin screening method
accepted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
for solid waste analysis. A third kit is also
available for rapid field analysis of total PCBs.
CAPE's kits are marketed by distributors in Australia,
Japan, Italy, Taiwan, China, and Finland, and directly
through its web site to the rest of the world. CAPE
Technologies maintains local ties with the University of New
England, the University of Southern Maine, and the
University of Maine at Orono. Dr. Robert Harrison of
Cape Elizabeth is co-founder and president.
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Company Name: CrossRate Technology
Primary Contact: Zachariah Conover
Email:
zconover@crossrate.com
Website:
www.crossrate.com
CrossRate Technology is a leader in high reliability
position, navigation, and time receivers. Through its
application of patent pending eLoran technology,
couplesdwith GPS, CrossRate is helping to secure America's
critical national infrastructure (ncluding
telecommunications, power delivery, military systems,
maritime/air/land navigation, broadcast television, the
internet, and financial systems vulnerable to intentional
and unintentional disruption) and keep people safer while
they work and play. The firm was started at the Drexel
University business incubator in Philadelphia by Zach
Connover, a Maine native.
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Company Name: Frontier Energy
Primary Contact: Joel Glatz
Email:
joelg@frontieroilme.com
Website:
www.frontierenergy.org
Frontier Energy is the first full-service oil company in the
nation to offer retail bioheat fuel, and Maine's first
distributor of blended Biodiesel for transportation.
Frontier supplies blended biodiesel fuel to LLBean, Dragon
Products, and the municipalities of Portland, South
Portland, Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough, and is a
major wholesaler of Biofuels to numerous downstream
marketers throughout New England. The principals of Frontier
Energy are Joel Glatz and Brad Taylor.
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Company Name: Holy Terra Products, Inc.
Website:
www.antipesto.biz
Holy Terra Products, Inc. of Yarmouth developed an all
natural pest repellent called Anti-Pest-O® for use on indoor
and outdoor plants, agricultural crops, and specific
household areas. It is 100% biodegradable, non-toxic, and
safe for use around children and pets. Principals are Dr.
Jim White and Neil Cambridge, and CEO John F. Isacke.
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Company Name: MediCreative
Primary Contact: Rebecca Stockbridge
Email:
rebecca@medicreative.com
Website:
www.medicreative.com
and
www.ibeccreative.com
MediCreative provides graphic and web design services to
medical professionals to help doctors create a brand
identity and web presence for their practice. MediCreative
was one of the finalists in the 2006 USM student business
plan competition and a 2006 Libra Future Fund grant
recipient, (which targets interesting projects proposed by
persons 18-25 years old.) In November 2007, to better
service her growing client base of businesses outside of the
healthcare field, Becky launched iBec Creative - a web and
graphic design ocmpany geared to the needs of businesses.
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Company Name: New England Classic
Website:
www.NewEnglandClassic.com
New England Classic, now situated in Tennessee, manufactures
architectural wainscot and panel systems using
environmentally responsible technology. Real wood veneer or
paint-primed film is laminated to an engineered wood core.
The use of materials recycled from post-industrial waste and
agricultural by-products extends the life of precious
hardwood resources and results in a beautiful, durable wall
covering with performance superior to solid wood. Variety in
styles and finish, an easy to install modular design as well
as custom panel options plus a wide range of accessories
maintains design flexibility. Their "Wall Furnishings"
collection of pre-configured, factory-finished kits has a
revolutionary fastening system that installs without nails.
New England Classic has a national distribution network and
launched its own design software, The Classic Design
Assistant, available as a free download.
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Company Name: Terralink Software System,
Inc.
Website:
www.terralink.com
Terralink of Portland provides software and services to
assist clients in managing hazardous waste information. The
company has several hundred software installations in
Fortune 500 companies and hazardous waste, service and
disposal corporations including Waste Management, Inc.,
Corning and the U.S. Navy.
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Company Name: Dr. Alex Waldrop
Email:
awaldrop@maine.rr.com
Dr. Alex Waldrop has developed AcriGlow-301TM to detect the
presence of hydrogen peroxide by chemilumniescence for
medical and environmental purposes. The European patent has
issued for this chemiluminescent technology developed with
co-inventor Dr. Calvin Vary of MMCRI (Maine Medical Center
Research Institute). Used as a detection system, the process
can be adapted to detect a wide variety of substances.
Developed with support of MMCRI, Jane Havey of Capricorn
Products and the Maine Center for Innovation and
Biotechnology (CIBT, the predecessor to MTI), Dr Waldrop
hopes to license the technology to clients in the fields of
bio-technology and environmental detection. Various
companies in the United States, in Japan and in Spain have
used the product on a trial basis. The U.S. patent is still
pending. This technology has been applied to antibody-based
diagnostics.
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