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History: Who We Are

LifeAFM is focused on creating technologies in atomic force microscopy for structural analysis of fragile entities, especially individual molecules of biology and medicine, at the highest resolutions possible under native conditions.

7/1997		P. Hough and I. Mastrangelo incorporate LifeAFM to commercialize a one-touch, low force AFM controller, a project Paul Hough initiated while a biophysicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
1/1998		Private capital is committed to the LifeAFM development program.
3/1998		LifeAFM receives an SBIR I feasibility grant from NIH/National Center for Research Resources.
7/1999		LifeAFM enters into an exclusive licensing agreement with Brookhaven National Laboratory.
2/2001		LifeAFM awarded SBIR II grant to make and test a prototype lifeScan Controller.
2001-2		lifeScan prototypes called Sensing Mode are built and tested.
2002-3		LifeAFM manufactures and debugs a mature lifeScan System including computing hardware and programming, and mechanical and electronic component systems.
12/2002		LifeAFM and Molecular Nanosystems, Inc. sign a Research and Development Agreement to fabricate and shorten single-wall carbon nanotube tip probes and test them for imaging in liquid using lifeScan.
2/2003		US patent 6,518,570 issues to Paul Hough and Chengpu Wang, LifeAFM, assignee Brookhaven National Laboratory.
2/2003		LifeAFM enters a Collaborative Research Agreement with Dr. Steven O. Smith, Center for Structural Biology, Stony Brook University to introduce lifeScan technology to, and further its development within, Center research programs.
11/2004		US patent 6,818,891 issues to Paul Hough and Chengpu Wang, LifeAFM, assignee Brookhaven National Laboratory.
12/2004		"Single-walled Carbon Nanotube Probes for AFM Imaging" contributed by members of Molecular Nanosystems, VeecoProbes, and LifeAFM to Conf. Proc. IEEE MEMS (2004), Maastricht, Netherlands, 189-192.
10/2005		A lifeScan System is installed in a new AFM Core Facility, at the Center for Structural Biology, Stony Brook University, funded by an NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant.
4/2006		US patent application ready to issue.
1/4/2006		"High Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy of Soluble Aß Oligomers", is published in J. Mol. Biol. (2006) 358, 106-119, authored by members of the S.O. Smith group, Stony Brook University and LifeAFM.