Licence agreement
Quantitative microscopy specialist Visiopharm AB of Horsholm, has signed a licence agreement with the Stereology and Electron Microscopy Research Laboratory at Aarhus University, Denmark for the further development of Proportionator, a stereological sampling technique developed and patented by Jonathan Gardi, together with Hans Jørgen Gundersen and Jens Nyengaard.
While the Proportionator is a strictly unbiased method, in contrast to the established systematic uniform random sampling procedures, it is based on a non-uniform sampling.
The researchers claim an increase in precision and reduction in work load as a result, and have demonstrated efficiency increases as high as 30 times above the traditional sampling methods.
Visiopharm CSO Niels Foged said, “We and the inventors believe this method will revolutionise modern stereology, and we are excited about implementing it on our histoinformatics platform. In combination with our automated physical dissector and our ability to interface with commercially available virtual microscopes, the Proportionator will propel unbiased methods into the realm of high-throughput analysis.”
Visiopharm hopes to introduce the technology in 2008.
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