Medical Imaging center to highlight CNSE and Carestream Health collaboration

Canandaigua, NY--On behalf of the Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center of Excellence (STC) of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany (a State University of New York or SUNY institution), Lieutenant Governor Robert J. Duffy joined officials in announcing a $3 million partnership between Carestream Health (Rochester, NY) and the Research Foundation of SUNY--a collaboration that will enable innovative technology research, development, and prototyping in medical imaging, create high-tech jobs, and fill the last available space at CNSE’s STC facilities in Canandaigua. An OLED partnership between CNSE and Moser Baer was recently established as well.

A global leader in medical and dental imaging systems, as well as healthcare IT solutions, Carestream Health has multiple offerings in radiography, mammography, dental and molecular imaging with more than 7,400 employees in 150 countries around the world, including 1,200 employees in the Rochester area, with annual sales of $2.5 billion.

The announcement was made during the annual meeting of the Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster (RRPC), held at CNSE’s STC and attended by more than 150 executives, entrepreneurs and investors representing more than 80 optics, photonics, and imaging companies in the Greater Rochester region.

Through the partnership, Carestream Health will conduct research and prototype development for some of its newest digital imaging technologies at CNSE’s STC. The company will invest in new equipment and upgrades to the facility, and will lease more than 6,000 square feet of space, including 1,200 square feet of cleanroom space. The project will enable joint development programs with CNSE’s STC on a number of advanced technologies, and is expected to result in the creation of approximately 24 high-tech jobs by CNSE’s STC over the next three years.

CNSE Sr. VP and CEO Alain E. Kaloyeros said, "The UAlbany NanoCollege is delighted to welcome Carestream Health as the newest corporate partner on site at CNSE’s Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center of Excellence. This partnership will create high-tech jobs and drive new private investment in the Greater Rochester region while demonstrating the growing ability of nanotechnology to improve health care through innovative diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease, and showcasing the advanced capabilities of CNSE’s STC to enable smart system technologies for the most critical and fastest-growing industries of the 21st century."

CNSE’s STC has been integrated into CNSE in a partnership of two of New York’s Centers of Excellence, the result of a merger in September 2010. CNSE’s STC provides certified cleanroom space for fabrication and packaging of MEMS devices, and leverages CNSE’s $7 billion Albany NanoTech Complex, which features 80,000 square feet of Class 1 capable cleanrooms equipped with leading-edge tools and state-of-the-art capabilities to accelerate 21st century nanotechnology innovations.

SOURCE: CNSE; http://cnse.albany.edu/Newsroom/NewsReleases/Details/11-04-13/Carestream_Health_and_CNSE_s_Smart_System_Technology_Commercialization_Center_launch_3M_partnership_for_innovative_research_and_prototyping.aspx