16 May 2022
Microscopy Innovations Introduces the mPrep ASP-2000
Microscopy Innovations introduces next generation automated biological specimen preparation with the mPrep ASP-2000™. In addition to walk-away convenience, one-touch sample handling, minimal reagent use, and reproducibility of results, the ASP-2000 adds integrated thermal control for precise reagent temperature setting and monitoring. The ASP-2000 will be released at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2022, and in the September product news section of Microscopy Today.
5 August 2020
Emily Benson receives Diatome Award for 3D Electron Microscopy Poster using mPrep ASP-1000
Emily Benson (3DEM Ultrastructural Imaging & Computation Core, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH) received the first place Diatome Ultramicrotomy Award at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2020 for her poster entitled, “Serial Block-Face SEM of Brain Tissue Using Rapid Automated Preparation.” In this work, Benson used the mPrep ASP-1000 to prepare brain tissue for serial block face SEM imaging. The poster summary states that ASP-1000 preparation reduced operator effort from 2 days to just one hour, while speeding up preparation from a week to just 1 day.
January 31, 2020
Microscopy Innovations received a 3rd SBIR Advance Award
Microscopy Innovations has received a third SBIR Advance Award from the Wisconsin Center for Technology Commercialization. These competitive grants are provided as a match to Wisconsin companies that receive Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer funding from US Federal agencies (SBIR and STTR). Microscopy Innovations has received two STTR contracts from the US Department of Defense to develop devices to improve the microscopy preparation of potentially pathogenic specimens for research and countermeasure development. The total amount of SBIR Advance Awards to Microscopy Innovations is $275,000. This matching funding is to support business development and commercialization activities that relate to the technology being developed by the federal grants or contracts.
18 June 2018
Microscopy Innovations awarded Phase II STTR Contract by Department of Defense
Microscopy Innovations has been awarded a $1 million Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract from the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command to develop an integrated system for field, clinic and laboratory preparation of biological specimens for microscopy. The company’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Steven Goodman, explains, “With this funding, Microscopy Innovations will extend the advantages of the mPrep System to enable safer, easier, more reliable preparation of potentially pathogenic tissue specimens from emerging infectious disease situations in remote locations. This technology can also be applied to improve the onsite preparation of more routine clinical and research biological specimens.”
Project collaborators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison include Dr. Jorge Osorio, Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences, and Mr. Benjamin August, Medical School Electron Microscopy Facility.
STTR is part of the Small Business Innovation Research program, a federal funding mechanism created by Congress to stimulate technological innovation by small businesses and assist them in converting innovative technology into marketable products.
9 August 2017
Melainia McClain receives Diatome Award for work using the mPrep ASP-1000 Automated Specimen Processor
Melainia McClain (Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO) received a Diatome Award at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2017 for her poster entitled, “Rapid Automated en Bloc Staining for SEM of Sections.” In this work, McClain used the mPrep ASP-1000 to fix, stain and embed planarian flatworms for serial section SEM imaging in just 1.5 days compared to the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research protocol that requires 7 days.
9 August 2017
Beijing Zhongjingkeyi Technology of China becomes mPrep System Distributor
Microscopy Innovations is pleased to welcome Beijing Zhongjingkeyi Technology Co., Ltd. of Beijing as our new distribution partner in China. 他们可以用中文回答你的mPrep问题。
3 July 2017
University of Maryland receives grant to acquire mPrep ASP-1000 for research and teaching
The Electron Microscopy Core Imaging Facility at the University of Maryland at Baltimore has received a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program award (DURIP) to purchase an mPrep ASP-1000 Automated Specimen Processor.
EMCIF Director Dr. Ru-ching Hsia remarked, “I am very excited that this grant will enable our Core Center to acquire this important new instrument. With the ASP-1000, university researchers and our staff scientists will benefit from rapid and reliable automated specimen preparation and fully-automated immuno-gold labeling. I also look forward to incorporating the ASP-1000 into our teaching curriculum, including our Workshops and Courses on Bio EM sample processing, Current EM Techniques, and ImmunoEM.”
More information at the University of Maryland Electron Microscopy Core Imaging Facility
26 June 2017
Microscopy Innovations awarded Phase I STTR Contract by Department of Defense
Microscopy Innovations has been awarded a $150,000 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract from the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command to develop an integrated system for field, clinic and laboratory preparation of biological specimens for microscopy. The company’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Steven Goodman, explains, “With this funding, Microscopy Innovations will extend the advantages of the mPrep System to enable safer, easier, more reliable preparation of potentially pathogenic tissue specimens from emerging infectious disease situations in remote locations. This technology can also be applied to improve the onsite preparation of more routine clinical and research biological specimens.”
Project collaborators from the University of Wisconsin-Madison include Dr. Jorge Osorio, Dept. of Pathobiological Sciences, and Mr. Benjamin August, Medical School Electron Microscopy Facility.
STTR is part of the Small Business Innovation Research program, a federal funding mechanism created by Congress to stimulate technological innovation by small businesses and assist them in converting innovative technology into marketable products.
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22 February 2017
Microscopy Innovations granted its 12th patent
The European Patent Office has granted Microscopy Innovations’s 12th patent on the mPrep System. EP 2545579 is entitled: Device for Holding Electron Microscope Grids and Other Materials. A list of our patents may be found here.
29 November 2016
TAAB Laboratories of England becomes mPrep System Distributor
Microscopy Innovations is pleased to welcome TAAB Laboratories Equipment Ltd. of Aldermaston, Berkshire, England as our new distribution partner in the United Kingdom.
20 May 2016
Electron Microscopy Sciences of the USA becomes mPrep System Distributor
Microscopy Innovations is pleased to welcome EMS of Hatfield, PA as our second distribution partner in the USA.
24 November 2015
mPrep System helps fight Ebola
Working with the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Ft. Detrick, MD (USAMRIID), Microscopy Innovations developed a safer and more reliable way to prepare highly pathogenic specimens such as Ebola virus by using mPrep/g capsules to handle TEM grid preparation.
More information:
Application Note 506: Virus Preparation in Biosafety Level 3-4 Laboratories
Wisconsin State Journal: Microscopy Innovations helps the Army combat Ebola
Microscopy and Analysis editorial: Preparation protocol for Ebola
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal: Microscopy Innovations’ equipment to help Army researchers study Ebola
19 August 2015
Microscopy Innovations’ mPrep System received the 2015 Wisconsin Innovation Award in the BioTech Category
Eighteen industry experts selected Microscopy Innovations from more than 170 entries to receive one of 10 awards, created to celebrate “groundbreaking and transformational ideas” from Wisconsin companies, large and small. The awards panel received input from customers using the mPrep System including the nomination from Professor Timothy Lyden, Director of the Tissue and Cellular Innovation Center at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Mei Sun from the Pathology Division of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), and Dr. Nacer Benmeradi, Universite Toulouse, France, Faculte Medecine.
29 April 2015
Alliance BioSystems of Japan becomes mPrep System Distributor
Microscopy Innovations is pleased to welcome to welcome its third distributor Alliance BioSystems of Osaka as our distribution partner in Japan. mPrepの質問に日本語で答えることができます。
23 January 2015
Microscopy Innovations’ mPrep System selected for Innovation AveNew at SLAS 2015
Microscopy Innovations is one of eight winning companies from four countries named to Innovation AveNEW at SLAS2015, the annual conference & exhibition of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening. The company was recognized for the introduction of the ASP-1000 – Automated Specimen Processor. The ASP is the first and only fully programmable instrument that prepares scanning and transmission electron microscopy specimens, and TEM grids with almost any protocol. The ASP-1000 also provides all the benefits of mPrep capsules. The award provided complimentary exhibit space and in-kind support to exhibit at the annual meeting in Washington DC.
20 January 2015
Professor Timothy Lyden receives award for research using mPrep/s capsules for 3-D cell culture
Professor Lyden receives a University of Wisconsin System Regent Scholar award and grant for his research that uses Prep/s capsules as bioreactors to grow 3-D artificial tumors for screening and testing of therapeutic approaches to cancer.
21 November 2014
Structure Probe Inc. of USA becomes mPrep System Distributor
Microscopy Innovations is pleased to welcome SPI Supplies of West Chester, PA as our first distribution partner in the USA.
4 May 2014
Delta Microscopies of France becomes mPrep System Distributor
Microscopy Innovations is pleased to welcome Delta Microscopies of Mauressac, as our distribution partner in France. Ils peuvent répondre à vos questions mPrep en Français.
18 September 2013
Microscopy Innovations LLC Among Winners Selected in Emerging Company Showcase
(Madison, WI) BioForward, the member-driven association representing Wisconsin’s bioscience industry has named Microscopy Innovations one of eight Emerging Company Showcase winners. Each of these Wisconsin-based early stage companies were chosen because they have transitioned successfully out of research and development, with good proof of concept for their products. Each was judged to have a unique value proposition.
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