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PortaScience was awarded a NJ Technology Fellowship Grant for a Rutgers University postdoctoral fellow to continue her research at our company. The program is designed to build collaboration between NJ universities and technology companies, and to help encourage development in NJ through the transfer of technologies to the marketplace.

PortaScience was recently awarded two Phase II SBIR awards. The first award was from NIH to develop a rapid and sensitive test for the date rape drug, GHB. This test will allow emergency room physicians to determine if a patient has ingested the drug. The second award is from the USDA to develop an automated instrument to measure somatic cell counts in milk. This will allow dairies to better manage mastitis, the most costly disease challenging producers today.

In March 2007, the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology awarded three SBIR Bridge Grants through the Edison Innovation Fund to enable early-stage technology companies to bridge the gap that often occurs in federal funding. PortaScience was one of the three companies receiving this special funding to allow research to continue uninterrupted. PortaScience is working with the NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop a rapid and sensitive test for the date rape drug.

• Edison Innovation Fund
  

PortaScience was named a 2006 Tibbetts Award Winner by the National Small Business Development Council. Of the fifty five businesses that received the award, PortaScience was the only winner from New Jersey. These prestigious, national awards are made annually to those small firms, organizations and individuals judged to exemplify the very best in SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) achievement. The Awards Ceremony will be held at The Wyndham in Washington DC on September 26th, followed by a reception on Capitol Hill.

• PortaScience Wins Tibbetts Award

PortaScience is the recipient of numerous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants from the National Institutes of Health. One such grant funded the development of a unique point-of-care technology with applications in the healthcare and the dairy industries. PortaScience was recognized as a success story based on its ability to successfully commercialize this technology.

• SBIR and STTR Success Story for PortaScience

PortaScience was named 2006 New Jersey Member Company of the Year by the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia, an organization that provides international trade support to regional businesses. The award recognizes companies that have contributed to the region's economic growth through export. Dr. Wai Tak Law, President of PortaScience, was honored at a banquet held at the Union League of Philadelphia on June 1st, 2006.

Dr. Law receiving Award from John Matheussen, CEO of the Delaware River Port Authority

PortaScience is recognized by Senator Jim Saxton for receiving a grant from the National Cancer Institutes.

• Portascience Receives National Cancer Institute Funds

PortaScience is recognized by Senator Jim Saxton for receiving a grant from the National Institues of Health.

• Portascience Receives Grant from NIH