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Biotech / Medical : Illumina (ILMN) Optics for Genomics -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mopgcw who wrote (26)	5/10/2002 9:10:53 PM
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Illumina Receives $1.0 Million Phase 2 SBIR Grant From the National Institutes of Health to Develop Matrixed Microarrays Microplate-Compatible Format to Enable Array-Based, Parallel Processing of Thousands of Samples with Reduced Experimental Variability SAN DIEGO--(BW HealthWire)--May 10, 2002-- Illumina, Inc. announced today that it has received a $1.0 million Phase 2 grant from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to further develop the Company's BeadArray(TM) technology for parallel processing of array experiments -- an important capability for high-throughput SNP genotyping, RNA profiling, and proteomics applications. Illumina's system is designed to provide reliable and cost-effective multi-sample processing for increasingly advanced microarray-based studies that require the analysis of hundreds to many thousands of samples. Typical microarrays allow many analyses to be carried out simultaneously on a single sample. Illumina's Array of Arrays(TM) format adds another dimension of "parallelism" by allowing many microarray experiments to be conducted at the same time in a microtiter plate format that is a standard in life science laboratories. According to Dr. Mark Chee, Illumina's Vice President of Genomics, "This grant will allow us to develop new, automated systems for generating high-quality data from many samples using our parallel array format. We believe this will enable researchers to accelerate their studies of genetic variation and function and help to catalyze the development of personalized medicine." Illumina (Nasdaq: ILMN; www.illumina.com) is developing next-generation tools that permit large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function. The Company's proprietary BeadArray(TM) technology provides the throughput, cost effectiveness and flexibility necessary to enable researchers in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries to perform the billions of tests necessary to extract medically valuable information from advances in genomics and proteomics. Illumina's technology will have applicability across a wide variety of industries beyond life sciences and pharmaceuticals, including agriculture, food, chemicals and petrochemicals.