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SBIR/STTR Program Successes

Brief profiles of companies that have utilized the programs and effectively commercialized technologies developed under SBIR/STTR are shown below. Click Here to submit your company's success story to NIH for inclusion below. Once reviewed, the information will be added to this list. Submissions of items unrelated to the SBIR/STTR programs will not be accepted. The company name and project title for each Success Story are shown below.

• Applied Health Science - Wound and Skin Intelligence System (TM) or WSIS (TM)



• Behavior Therapy Associates LLP - Brief intervention for alcoholism via computer software



• BioSciCon, Inc. - MarkPap(r) Technology for Cervical Cancer Screening



• Clever Sys. Inc. - PhenoScan Series



• Cyma - An Easy-to-Use System for Ambulatory Activity Evaluation



• Echelon Biosciences Inc - Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Assays in Cancer Diagnosis



• Humanitas, Inc. - Web Trials Information Exchange



• Illumina, Inc. - Automated DNA Synthesizer Using Tilted Plate Technology



• Illumina, Inc. - Randomly Ordered Arrays for SNP Genotyping



• Illumina, Inc. - Decoding Randomly- Assembled DNA Arrays



• Insight NeuroImaging Systems, LLC (INSL) - Noninvasive Devices for fMRI Studies in Mental Illness



• Intelligent Optical Systems - Distributed, sensitive chemical and biochemical sensors and sensor networks.



• LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals - Rational Design of Adhesion Blocking Anti-Inflammatories



• Menssana Research, Inc - Breath tests for detection of disease



• MIDI, Inc. - Rapid Inexpensive Assay for TB and Other Mycobacteria



• Morphonix™ - Journey into the Brain



• OncoMetrics, Inc. - Precise breast cancer staging with an expert system



• Optiva Corporation - MEDICINE AND DENTIFRICE DISPENSING SONIC BRUSH, SONIC TOOTHBRUSH



• Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. - A Stress Management Expert System for Cancer Prevention



• SAM Technology, Inc. - MANSCAN® Human Brain Function Research System



• SAM Technology, Inc. - IMAGE VUE™ Neurophysiological and Neuroanatomical Visualization and Source Localization Software



• Sarawak MediChem Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - SYNTHESIS OF NEW ANTIHIV AGENTS RELATED TO CALANOLIDE A



• Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc. - Technology for Culture of Megathura Crenulata for KLH



• SurModics, Inc. - IMPROVED BIOCOMPATIBILITY OF CONTACT LENSES



• Telesage, Inc. - NEW AUTOMATED TELEPHONE TECHNOLOGY FOR MENTAL HEALTH



• The Degge Group, Ltd. - LEVELS OF LEARNING ABOUT CANCER BY PEDIATRIC PATIENTS



• Three Rivers Holdings, LLC - The SmartWheel: Development of Wheelchair Pushrim Force and Measurement Device



• Transonic Systems, Inc. - Tools and Techniques to Measure Flow and Pressure in Mice



• Vida Health Communications, Inc. - Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment: A Clinical Guide for Obstetric and Pediatric Providers



• Vivalog Technologies - An Application Server for Biomedical Content Management



• Xilas Medical, Inc. - Medical devices that prevent the occurrence of foot ulcers and amputations in people with diabetes

SBIR/STTR Program Successes Through 2002

SBIR/STTR Success Stories entered up through 2002 are shown below (most files in PDF format):

• Behavior Therapy Associates
• Cleveland Medical Devices, Inc.
• Decision Systems, Inc.
• Echelon Research Laboratories, Inc.
• Evening Star Productions.
• I.S. Grupe, Inc.
• Lexical Technology
• New England Research Institutes
• PanVera Corporation
• Transonic Systems Inc. PDF or MS Word

Fourth Annual U.S. Small Business Administration 1999 Tibbetts Awards

Congratulations to the following NIH SBIR awardees who were recipients of the 1999 Tibbetts Awards! These prestigious, national awards, named for Roland Tibbetts, a former SBIR Program Manager who is acknowledged as "founding father of the SBIR Program," are made annually to those small firms, projects, organizations and individuals judged to exemplify the very best in SBIR achievement. The Tibbetts Awards are an initiative of the Office of Advocacy in the US Small Business Administration (SBA) now managed through the Office of Technology. A full list of winners is available electronically at http://www.sba.gov/sbir/tibbetts/toc.html. (Note: All files below are in PDF format.)

• Beneficial Designs, Inc.
• Decision Systems, Inc.
• Thermogen, Inc.
• Bioanalytical Systems, Inc.
• Science and Engineering Services, Inc.
• Microwave Medical Systems, Inc.
• AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc.
• Evening Star Productions
• YES Technologies (Yellowstone Environmental Science, Inc.)

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