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CytoViva Receives Award at Chicago Navy Pier

Pictured from left to right: Sam Lawrence, Vitaly Vodyanoy, Chuck Ludwig, Tom Hasling

CytoViva^® was recognized in October as a recipient of the 2006 R&D 100 Award.  The CytoViva development team, as pictured on the left, attended the Chicago ceremony along with all of the other award-winning teams.  The winning of an R&D 100 Award provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the product is one of the most innovative ideas of the year.

The R&D 100 Awards were established in 1963 and have recognized winning products such as the CW microwave tube (1963), video recorder (1965), electronic calculator (1968), chromacolor TV picture tube and artificial kidney (1970), Nicoderm antismoking patch (1992) and the scanning confocal electron microscope (2003). All entries are initially judged by more than 50 outside experts chosen from professional consultants, university faculty, and industrial researchers with superior expertise and experience in the areas they are judging.

Invented at Auburn University and commercialized by Aetos Technologies, Inc., CytoViva is a microscope technology with increased resolution and a dual mode fluorescence imaging capability. This technological leap captured the attention of R&D judges because it provides a solution to limitations faced by researchers across many sectors.