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September 24, 2004|Volume 33, Number 4



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Yale pathologists Dr. David Rimm (left) and Dr. Robert Camp, two of the co-founders of HistoRx Inc., developed the AQUA™ technology.



New bioscience company at Science Park offering digital diagnostic technology developed at Yale

HistoRx Inc., a bioscience company offering novel digital technologies for in situ diagnostics developed at the School of Medicine, has located its operations at 25 Science Park in New Haven.

The company has exclusive license to the AQUA™ (Automated Quantitative Analysis) technology developed by two of the company's founders, Dr. David Rimm and Dr. Robert Camp, both in Yale's Department of Pathology.

AQUA™ enables researchers to localize and quantify proteins in tissue while maintaining spatial relationships -- a process that was previously impossible with conventional methods of pathology analysis and which vastly increases the quality and amount of information for analysis.

"What is unique about AQUA is that it is completely objective -- it takes subjectivity out of the pathology diagnosis," says Rimm.

HistoRx also holds exclusive license to databases from Yale's tissue archive containing 20- to 40-year clinical follow up information corresponding to different types of human cancer. The School of Medicine's archive holds more than three million tissue samples collected over the past 70 years.

The company provides contract services to academic institutions, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies while selectively licensing its technologies to leading academic and research laboratories.

Robert Curtis, president, chief executive officer and another co-founder of HistoRx, says, "The company is grounded in the firm belief that the power of AQUA™, coupled with the extensive clinical data of the Yale tissue archive, provides an extraordinary new tool for substantial improvement in tissue analysis both for pharmaceutical research and development, and for patient care."

He notes that HistoRx recently entered into feasibility studies with two major pharmaceutical companies and is scheduled to ship its first systems to two preeminent research universities this week.

Rana Gupta, an investment partner at Navigator Technology Ventures, says that HistoRx's technology has the potential to significantly reduce the risk of clinical trial failure and move new drug candidates through the development process more quickly.

According to Jon Soderstrom, managing director of the Office of Cooperative Research at Yale, "HistoRx is a great example of the continuing effort of Yale University to expand the biotechnology industry in the New Haven area."

More information about HistoRx is available at www.historx.com.


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