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SAIC/EAI to Initiate Government Funded Influenza Screening Program with CombiMatrix Technology
Wednesday May 17, 6:00 am ET
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2006--Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX - News; Nasdaq:ACTG - News) announced today that its CombiMatrix group will collaborate with EAI Corporation, a subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), for field deployment of CombiMatrix's influenza-screening technology for the identification of all versions of influenza A, including the highly pathogenic Eurasian (H5:N1) strain.
Funding for this program will be provided by the Center for Innovative Technology/Institute for Defense and Homeland Security through its Partnership Intermediary Agreement with the Department of Defense. Additional partners in this project include the San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station of the US Geological Survey/Western Ecological Research Center and the Prince William Sound Science Center of Cordova, Alaska.
"The US government continues to be justifiably concerned about the entrance of highly pathogenic avian influenza into North America, and CombiMatrix continues to demonstrate the power of its technology in this realm," stated Dr. Amit Kumar, President and CEO of CombiMatrix. "This collaboration with EAI gets our technology into the field and into the hands of people and groups standing watch on US soil. This program is in addition to our participation in the US Government's National Early Detection System."
"We are pleased that the Institute for Defense and Homeland Security has agreed to fund this combined effort with CombiMatrix," said Dr. Joe Dudley, Chief Scientist at EAI. "We believe that the CombiMatrix system is a powerful, versatile, and portable system for influenza monitoring. We believe that this approach, combined with EAI's mobile-laboratory products and expertise, will provide a very powerful tool for monitoring and preparedness in the event of a pandemic." |
