Centice Corporation wins prestigious R&D100 award

Independent Panel and Editors Recognize Centice’s MMS Raman Spectrometer as

One of the Most Significant Products Introduced in 2006

Research Triangle Park, N.C. - July 13, 2006 - Centice Corporation, a pioneer in next generation sensor technology, today announced the company was named an R&D 100 award winner in 2006 for its MMS Raman Spectrometer.   

Recognized as the “Oscars of Invention” by the Chicago Tribune, the R&D 100 awards are presented by R&D Magazine to recognize the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year.  The R&D award is a symbol of excellence that is known throughout the industry by influencers in commercial, government and academic sectors.  Each year, an independent panel of judges works with the editors of R&D Magazine to review, identify and select breakthrough products.  Centice will be accepting the award and exhibiting at the 44^th annual black tie Awards Ceremony at Chicago’s Navy Pier on Thursday, October 19^th, 2006. 

 “Our MMS technology presents a new paradigm in molecular spectroscopy enabling researchers and industry to address new markets with next generation research and application-specific products,” said Mike Sullivan, interim CEO of Centice.  “Being named a recipient of the R&D 100 Award by the editors of R&D Magazine through an evaluation by a panel of independent judges is an honor.  The award further validates the impact of our technology and the achievement is a reflection of everyone’s hard work here at Centice.”  

Centice designs and manufactures computational sensors which enable a new generation of high sensitivity molecular analyzers. Centice is the exclusive licensee of the MMS technology first developed at Duke University under NIH and DARPA grants for tissue spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging. To date, the company has filed more than twenty patent applications. Centice is offering this computational sensor technology through strategic OEM partnerships.  

Spectroscopy is used in a broad variety of research and process applications, including material identification, quantitative analysis and quality control. Conventional spectrometers use a slit at the entrance to the light dispersing module. In these traditional designs, there is an inherent trade-off between resolution and light throughput. While spectral resolution increases as slit width decreases, a narrow input slit greatly limits photon throughput and, likewise, measurement sensitivity.

Centice’s MMS technology uses an encoded wide area aperture instead of a slit, thus providing extremely high throughput with no sacrifice in spectral resolution. The large area encoded aperture yields more than 10 times the signal-to-noise (SNR) as compared with slit based instruments with equivalent resolution. This extreme sensitivity is achieved without compromising spectral resolution in UV/Vis, NIR, Raman and fluorescence measurement.

Winners of the 2006 awards will be published in the September issue of R&D Magazine.

ABOUT CENTICE CORPORATION

Centice, founded in 2004, is commercializing a patent-pending computational sensor technology originally developed at Duke University. Centice leverages this technology with its expertise in instrument design to produce a portfolio of high sensitivity optical sensing modules for the analytical, life sciences, medical and pharmaceutical industries. The company has received venture capital investments from The Aurora Funds, Inc. (www.aurorafunds.com) and Novak Biddle Venture Partners (www.novakbiddle.com).  More information on Centice can be found at http://www.centice.com.

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