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Finalists Named in
2007 Utah Innovation Awards Program
SALT LAKE CITY—Twenty-one technology innovations have been selected as finalists in the fifth annual Utah Innovation Awards, presented by Stoel Rives LLP and the Utah Technology Council. This statewide program, designed to recognize innovations and the Utah companies that created them, is sponsored by Connect magazine and Hewlett-Packard. Finalists and winners will be honored at a special Awards Luncheon on Thursday, May 10, 2007 at the Marriott City Center. Registration is available online at www.stoel.com/innovation.
Seven winners—one from each category—will be announced at the May 10th Awards Luncheon. A committee of nearly 60 experts from private industry, government and academic communities selected the winners and finalists in each of the program’s seven categories: biotechnology/pharmaceuticals, chemicals/materials science, computer hardware/electrical devices, consumer software, enterprise business-to-business software, mechanical devices and medical devices.
Finalists, listed alphabetically by entity name within each category, are as follows:
Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals
- MultiTarget Pharmaceuticals, LLC, AquaPlasmid & AquaGenomic
- Q Therapeutics, Inc., Q-Cells™
- University of Utah and NeuroAdjuvants, Neuropeptide-based Analogs that Cross Blood-Brain-Barriers
Chemicals/Materials Science
- AeroQuest, LLC, Thermoplastic Composites
- Ceramatec, Inc., Gliding Arc Reformer
- H3 TEC, LLC, H3 Element Detector
Computer Hardware/Electrical Devices
- Digital Home Communications, audioShare
- Flying Sensors and Brigham Young University, UAVs for Sensing, Data and Images
- SimpliPhones, Inc., SimpliPhones Business Phone System
Consumer Software
- Auction Video, Inc., User Generated Video Content (Patent Pending)
- ClearPlay, Inc., ClearPlay DVD with Parental Filtering
- iWorlds Simulations, Full Immersion Experience
Enterprise B-2-B Software
- Omniture, Inc., Discover 2.0
- Symantec, Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (SVS)
- TheraDoc, Inc., Clinical Decision Support Technologies
Mechanical Devices
- Andigen, Innovation of the IBR Anaerobic Digester
- Barney Auman, SureFit
- Kadence Technology, Inc., Kapitol Reef Snorkel
Medical Devices
- AlphaSpine, Minimally Traumatic Spinal Surgery
- Coherex Medical, Inc., The Coherex FlatStent™
- IOMED, Inc., Hybresis Iontophoresis System
Finalists will showcase their innovations at 11:00 and the Awards Luncheon will begin at Noon. Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr. will provide welcoming remarks and Larry D. Rigby, founder of ZARS Pharma, Inc. will deliver a keynote address. Individual seats are $35.00 and a table of ten is $350. To register, visit www.stoel.com/innovation by Friday, May 4, 2007. Individuals or companies that purchase a table of ten by Friday, April 27, 2007 will receive recognition in the Awards Luncheon program.
Votes were tallied by the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. The program is supported by the Association of Corporate Growth, Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Utah Manufacturers Association and the Wayne Brown Institute. More details about the awards program are available at www.stoel.com/innovation.
About Stoel Rives LLP
Stoel Rives is a business law firm providing counseling and litigation services throughout the western United States. The firm’s 350 attorneys provide client-focused services to a wide range of clients from eight offices in five western states. Stoel Rives is regarded as a regional leader in intellectual property, energy, natural resources, environment, litigation, and corporate law. For more information about Stoel Rives LLP, please visit www.stoel.com.
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NOTE TO THE MEDIA: Included with this press release is a table providing detailed information about each of the finalists. |
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