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National Laboratories | California 
| Aug 13, 2001 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
Eksigent Technologies and Sandia National Laboratories Announce Licensing Agreement
LIVERMORE, Calif. – Eksigent Technologies announced today it has signed a license agreement with Sandia National Laboratories Under the terms of the agreement, Eksigent secures rights to Sandia's microfluidics technology for use in many applications in chemical analysis, biotechnology, proteomics, drug discovery, MEMS and microelectronics.
"We are very excited about transferring this promising technology from the national laboratories and continuing its development in the private sector. Combined with additional efforts at Eksigent, this technology will soon be ready for integration into commercial products" said Don Arnold, cofounder of Eksigent.
Initial target applications include chemical analysis systems for the life sciences industry, where microfluidics systems incorporating the licensed technology can offer much higher analysis speed, throughput, and efficiency than conventional systems.
"Sandia is fully committed to the technology transfer process and we look forward to further advances from the team at Eksigent," said John Vitko, who oversaw the development of µChemLab" as Director of Exploratory Systems and Technology at Sandia National Laboratories.
Eksigent Technologies is a start-up company dedicated to commercialization of the EKPump technology discovered by its founders. Prior to May 2000, Eksigent’s technical personnel led development of portable chemical analysis systems at Sandia National Laboratories, including breakthrough technologies that form the basis of Eksigent’s extensive suite of microfluidic technologies. More information about Eksigent can be found at http://www.eksigent.com.
More information about Sandia environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness. Their groundbreaking µChemLab(tm) technology has been successfully employed in the development of portable, handheld gas and liquid chromatography systems.
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