StarFish Medical Receives Team of the Year at VIATeC Awards Night
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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Vancouver, BC, June 4, 2009--(T-Net)--StarFish Medical announced it has won the Team of the Year Award at the 2009 VIATeC Tech Awards night. This award recognizes an individual or a team in the Vancouver Island technology sector which has demonstrated outstanding initiative and service delivery, and has had a significant impact on the company for which they work. The Vancouver Island technology sector presently has over 900 companies with 13,000 employees and over $1.7 billion in annual revenues.
For StarFish Medical, the winning team comprised Mechanical Engineers, Industrial Designers and an Engineering Physicist who combined their skills to transform a proof of concept device DNA separation device into an operable, marketable alpha prototype for their client, Boreal Genomics, within a 3-month timeframe.
Boreal Genomics was able to demonstrate their device at a key conference in their sector which generated significant attention and ultimately resulted in additional capital both from grants and investment to expand their business.
“In an incredibly short time, and very cost effectively, StarFish engineers helped us to develop an instrument that completely changed the way our company is perceived,” says Dr. Andre Marziali, the Chief Scientist at Boreal Genomics. “We will certainly work with Starfish again on our next instrument iteration, and can safely say that if our company is successful, they will have played a substantially enabling role.”
Scott Phillips, President of StarFish Medical, says, “I believe the success of the Boreal Genomics project reflects the quality and commitment of the team at StarFish and their ability to provide excellent results.”
You can view the team receiving the award on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No3YttxmWFU
About StarFish Medical
Privately held StarFish Medical is one of Canada’s leading contract developers and manufacturers of novel medical devices with a staff of 35. It has been in business in Victoria since 1994 and was named Technology Company of the Year by the VIATeC in 2006. Visit www.StarFishMedical.com for more information.
About Boreal Genomics
Boreal Genomics is a biotechnology instrument research and development company which is a spin-off from University of British Columbia. Boreal Genomics’s instruments are based on SCODA: a novel, proprietary electrophoresis technology that selectively concentrates nucleic acids. www.borealgenomics.com/products.html
For more information contact:
Scott Phillips, President
250.388.3537
sphillips@starfishmedical.com
www.starfishmedical.com
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StarFish Medical
Victoria, BC (Biotech/Life Sciences)
51 Employees In BC (51 Total)
Founded: 1998 | Revenues: $4.80 Million
Starfish Medical provides expertise in manufacturing, assembling and medical device packaging.
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