Sensors for Medicine and Science

Sector:
Healthcare

Location:
Germantown, MD

Year Funded:
1998

Status:
Active

Website:
www.s4ms.com


Summary:
Sensors for Medicine and Science develops chemical sensing technologies based on fluorescence sensing. The company’s technologies permit sensitive detection and measurement of molecules of commercial interest to the medical, industrial, and environmental communities, as well as enables detection of other chemical species, such as carbon dioxide, pH, nitric oxide, lactate, anesthetic gases, oxygen, and glucose. The company’s primary focus is on the development and commercialization of an implantable glucose sensor product for use in monitoring glucose levels in diabetes patients.