JST TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SEMINAR AT PITTCON 2009

PRESS RELEASE
JST TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SEMINAR AT PITTCON 2009
3 Success Stories and 8 New Lab Technologies for Your NEXT Innovation

Tokyo, Japan, 9 February 2009

The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) will take its technology
transfer operations to the exposition floor at Pittcon 2009. In a full
day seminar, Tuesday, March 10, JST will showcase 3 technology
transfer success stories and 8 new, development-ready technologies for
the next generation of lab instrumentation. With a $1-billion R&D
budget heavily weighted in the laboratory sciences, JST sees the
premier conference and exposition on the laboratory sciences as an
ideal venue for moving its new technologies into the marketplace.

The morning session will start with the university-to-Vodafone story
of giant magneto impendance sensors. Presented by IEEE Fellow Kaneo
Mohri, this story traces the progression from new material to new
phenomenon to new application to new company and new market. New
technology for license will be shown in Mitsuhiro Shikida’s
“Microreactor using magnetic beads for immobilization and transport,”
and Takao Tsuda’s “Skin gas collector.” Daniel Citterio aims to make
major inroads into food quality control with his “Taste sensing system
correlated with human taste perception.”

The afternoon session will start with Hisashi Yamamoto’s “Asymmetric
Epoxidation,” results of an international cooperation between JST and
the University of Chicago that have been licensed into industry.
Yoshihisa Inoue extends the range and sensitivity of absolute
configuration determination with “High-sensitivity bis-porphyrin
chirality sensors.” Kenji Ikushima will present his double feature
“Emitters, optics and detectors for IR/THz microscopy” and “Ultrasonic
imaging of electromagnetic effects with ASEM” – a new imaging
technology with industry-birthing implications.

The third success story, Minoru Kobayashi of Nanophoton Corporation, a
startup located on the Osaka University campus, will cap the day with
“High speed 3-D molecular microscope.” New technology for license will
be shown in Masafumi Kimata’s “Infrared position sensitive detector
(IRPSD),” and in Mao Ye’s “Liquid crystal lens with electrically
tunable focal length.”

JST’s Technology Transfer Seminar at Pittcon 2009 is aimed at new
product strategists in the laboratory sciences who are seeking ways to
expand their product lines and gain competitive advantage. JST tech
transfer personnel will be on hand to expedite inquiries.

About JST:
The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) has a 45-year track
record of transferring technology generated by universities and
government research institutes. JST currently manages a portfolio of
almost 4000 patents. An integrated organization of science and
technology in Japan, JST establishes infrastructure for the entire
process from the creation of knowledge to the return to the society.
For more information, visit http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/.

Contact for more information:
Alan Engel, Paterra, Inc., A24, 2-1-6, Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
305-0047 Japan
Email: techtransfer@xxxxxxxxxxx
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