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A -- LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGIES SEEKS PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY POC: For further information, contact Industrial Partnerships & Commercialization, at (510) 423-3139. Announcement: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the University of California under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is seeking U.S. companies interested in participatin in government or corporate sponsored cooperative research and development projects to commercialize LLNL technologies for health care applications. The core competencies of the LLNL Center for Health Care Technologies are in system integration and prototyping, laser systems, X-ray systems, computations and modeling, microfabrication, sensors and information processing, chemistry and material science, biomedical and forensic sciences. The goal of the Center is to apply LLNL technologies, expertise, and capabilities to health care problems of national significance, with an emphasis on improving health care through development of cost-effective technologies. The Department of Energy or other federal agencies may provide funding to LLNL to work on specific problems in collaboration with companies with matching corporate investments. In such instances, partner companies would fund their own efforts in the collaboration. Partner companies may also fund LLNL directly. Partner companies will have the opportunity to negotiate a license to LLNL technologies during or at the conclusion of the project. All projects are conducted under policies relating to the strict nondisclosure of company proprietary information. If you are interested in partnership with LLNL to develop and commerialize technologies for health care applications, please respond in writing within 60 days of this announcement by providing background information about this company (i.e., products or services, relevant facilities, number and type of employees, annual sales); your specific area of interest and desired outcome; and your anticipated corporate investment in the development and commercialization of any resulting technologies. (212)

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