Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Spectradigital Corporation Media Release

I’m a director of Spectradigital Corporation. We put out an announcement recently. You can find it here, and also included in line below. This company has such incredible potential!


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 28, 2009

Contact Information
Ed King
970 207 1112

SpectraDigital Announces HIV/AIDS Initiative with a Brazilian partner

Fort Collins, CO –- SpectraDigital, Inc. of Fort Collins and SpectraDigital Corporation of Canada announced the publication in the September issue of Nature Biotechnology (http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n9/full/nbt0909-806.html) of an article summarizing a partnership model with FK Biotec of Porto Alegre, Brazil (http://www.fkbiotec.com.br), to undertake a joint AIDS/HIV project. FK Biotec is a biotechnology company based in Brazil.

In addition to this Brazilian project, SpectraDigital also has a joint project with Dr. Lawrence Goodridge of CSU that is developing a platform technology for rapid detection of food-borne pathogens. SpectraDigital is also developing a project with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on TB diagnostics, and is seeking research partnerships in Africa on a malaria diagnostic project.

Ed King, President of SpectraDigital, Inc. remarked that the, “Nature Biotechnology article aptly recognizes the efforts of both SpectraDigital and FK Biotec to move forward projects that promise to deliver much needed testing services that are affordable and innovative. The ability to foster partnerships such as these is important in our economic times. Our solutions are aimed at bringing low cost diagnostic tests to resource-challenged areas and low margin industries like agriculture”.

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