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Breath Gas Sampler

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Convergent Engineering, Inc. is developing signal processing algorithms and techniques for breath-based medical diagnostic applications. They have successfully developed data filters and signal processing algorithms that reduce sensor variability and have shown positive results in studies aimed at detecting propofol, a short-acting intravenous anesthetic agent, in the breath and blood of anesthetized animals.

The company is currently in the process of fabricating a prototype propofol monitoring device. This device is expected to be a significant improvement over current propofol monitoring methods and is targeted towards hospital-based anesthesiologists and surgeons, as well as office-based dentists, orthodontists and plastic surgeons.

Convergent Engineering, Inc is partnering with Biocatalyst for commercialization of its propofol monitoring device. Biocatalyst specializes in accelerating commercialization of science-based technologies. They expect a revenue stream starting in 2008. Much of Convergent Engineering’s success has been made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.


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