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TBSI News and Announcements
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6/1/10
Upwards Biosystems (Taiwan), Upwards Teksystems (China) Visit TBSI Headquarters for Product Training
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Upwards Biosystems based in Taipei City, Taiwan has recently sent representatives for product training to the Triangle BioSystems office in Durham, NC, USA. Upwards Biosystems distributes TBSI products in Taiwan and Upwards Teksystems distributes TBSI products in China. During the week of May 24, our visitors included Mr. Ma Jun (Engineering) – China and Mr. Harris Chu (Sales) - Taiwan for detailed training at our office.
The week-long training included specific technical detail which was taught by our product engineers for our recording and stimulator products to better enable product support in Asia. We have also addressed product compatibility with other industry offerings, as well as data acquisition with our new software, business development and many other product and territory related subjects. Once again, thanks to Duke University of Durham, NC for hosting our guests for application specific reviews of our products.
It was a pleasure for us to host our Asian distributors for training as well as being able to introduce them to our city of Raleigh and Research Triangle Park areas of North Carolina. Please contact Upwards Biosystems in Taiwan or Upwards Teksystems in China if you would like to learn more about TBSI products in these countries.
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4/27/10
Bio Research Visits TBSI Headquarters in America for Product Training
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Bio Research Center Co., Ltd. (BRC) of Nagoya, Japan is Triangle BioSystem’s exclusive distributor for Japan. As such, some of the BRC team members have come to our office in Durham, NC, USA during the week of April 19, 2010 for detailed product training. The visitors included Mitsuhiro Edamura (Marketing), Takashi Kuwahara (Sales) and Kenichi Takaku (Sales).
The week-long training included specific technical detail which was taught by our product engineers for our recording and stimulator products. In addition, there were technical discussions regarding product connectivity, data acquisition and sales/marketing issues.
In addition, thanks to Duke University of Durham, NC for hosting our guests for application specific reviews of our product. We also had the opportunity to visit the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for an on-site meeting.
It was great to host our Japanese distributor and also show them around the Raleigh and Research Triangle Park areas of North Carolina. It was a very nice week and we now know the BRC is better prepared to provide sales and technical support for our customers in Japan. Please contact Bio Research Center if you would like to learn more about TBSI products in Japan.
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2/15/10
New Vice President of Sales & Marketing
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Today, TBSI announces that Mike Calarco has joined the company on a full time basis as the Vice President of Sales & Marketing for the company’s worldwide business. Mr. Calarco has previously been with TBSI as a contractor on a part time basis managing sales & marketing activities. With Mike’s knowledge of the business and Neuroscience industry, he will be focused on bringing a new level of recognition to our brand.
Mr. Calarco brings much Sales & Marketing experience to TBSI from his previous role as Director of Marketing & Strategic Planning in the construction industry, as well as various Sales and Marketing positions in the computer & high tech industry. In addition, Mike brings significant worldwide business leadership to TBSI as we prepare to move the company to our next level of success.
Mike will report directly to Dr. James Morizio, President and CEO and manage all Sales and Marketing initiatives. Please direct all related questions to Mike. He can be reached by email or at our Durham, NC based office at 919-361-2663.
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11/17/09
TBSI attends SfN in China, November 7th-13th. We promoted our products at our China distributor's booths (Keslab and United Scientific).
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11/10/09
Keslab now distributing TBSI products in Southern China region
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Keslab of Guangzhou, China is now a distributor of Triangle BioSystems products. We have recently signed an agreement with Keslab to sell TBSI products in the Southern China provinces of Guangdong, Fujian and Guangxi as well as Hong Kong and Macau. They will begin to sell immediately. In fact, during November 7-10, they have participated in the China Neurosciences event while supporting our products.
Keslab will sell and support all of the mainstream TBSI products in the such as the W-Series (Wireless), M-Series (Multiplexer), T-Series (Tethered) and S-Series (Stimulator) products. We are excited about this opportunity to strengthen our China sales and distribution efforts. Keslab joins United Scientific who handles the Northern region of China.
Please refer to our Distributor pages on the Triangle BioSystems website for complete contact information and other distributor resources. If you have any additional questions, please contact TBSI headquarters in Durham, North Carolina, USA at 919-361-2663
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11/7/09
GA TradeCo to distribute TBSI products in Western USA and the Middle East.
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GA TradeCo of Irvine, California (supplier of laboratory and research equipment to the medical industry) will begin distribution of Triangle BioSystems products immediately under the distribution agreement recently signed between the two companies. As part of the agreement, GA Trade will sell and support TBSI products in the Western territory of America and the Middle East. Products include the popular W-Series wireless products, the new M-Series multiplexer products, the familiar T-Series tethered headstage products and our S-Series stimulator products.
GA Trade is now an authorized distributor of TBSI to sell and support these products. They are headquartered in California, USA and have an office in Beirut, Lebanon in which they will operate distribution for the Middle East. We are committed to our worldwide channel expansion initiative in which we have recently bolstered our Asia Pacific territory. We believe that we can better support our customers with local service with our authorized distributors.
As always, please refer to our Distributor pages on the Triangle BioSystems website for complete contact information and other distributor resources.
We look forward to working closely GA Trade and welcome them as they join the TBSI family to jointly serve our customers. If you have any additional questions, please contact TBSI headquarters in Durham, North Carolina, USA at 919-361-2663
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8/27/09
Clever Sys., Inc. and Triangle BioSystems, Inc. are pleased to announce a teaming agreement has been reached between Yiqing Liang, Ph.D. of Clever Sys., Inc. and James Morizio, Ph.D. of Triangle BioSystems, Inc.
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Under this strong teaming agreement, TBSI and
CSI will work together to explore the synergy between them, and take full advantage of the
strengths of both companies, to enhance the capabilities of the technologies, and best
support advanced research by scientists.
Clever Sys., Inc. (CSI) has been providing their patented Behavioral Recognition systems
since 1999, to researchers for the study of life sciences. Using high throughput, real-time
videos, the technology is able to identify the individual body parts of the animal, and
incorporates this with temporal sequencing to determine not just where the animal is, but
WHAT the animal is doing. That is, CSI’s new generation of technology will allow for the first
time, automated analysis of lab animal’s complex, natural, and stereotypic behaviors.
Behavioral “bouts,” or events, are recorded for as long as 24 hours 7 days a week, and can
calculate down to the second what the animal was doing, and the duration. The advanced
video imaging capability allows investigators to play back any behavioral bout, giving
investigators a means for validating the results. With over 26 products on the market, and
more currently in development, researchers can rest assured there is nothing their animal
can do that CSI’s systems won’t be able to detect.
Look for the first of these integrated products to be exhibited at the Society for
Neuroscience’s 2009 annual meeting.
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7/20/09
TBSI with "Frontiers in Neuroengineering"
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TBSI’s 16ch, Gain 100 tethered headstage(P/N NEURO16BPG100) is presented
in August of 2009 “Frontiers in Neuroengineering.” Authors
John Rolston, Robert Gross, and Steve Potter from Ga. Tech present a
64ch, DAQ system for neural recording for less than $10,000 which uses 4 of the
TBSI NEURO16BPG100 headstages.
The unique benefit of the DAQ system presented is that
it recovers rapidly from stimulation and allows short
latency action potentials (<1 ms post-stimulus) to be detected,
facilitating closed-loop applications and exposing neural activity that would
otherwise remain hidden.
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Abstract:
Commercially available data acquisition systems for multielectrode recording from freely moving
animals are expensive, often rely on proprietary software, and do not provide detailed, modifiable circuit
schematics. When used in conjunction with electrical stimulation, they are prone to prolonged,
saturating stimulation artifacts that prevent the recording of short-latency evoked responses. Yet
electrical stimulation is integral to many experimental designs, and critical for emerging brain-computer
interfacing and neuroprosthetic applications. To address these issues, we developed an easy-to-use,
modifiable, and inexpensive system for multielectrode neural recording and stimulation. Setup costs are
less than US$10,000 for 64 channels, an order of magnitude lower than comparable commercial
systems. Unlike commercial equipment, the system recovers rapidly from stimulation and allows shortlatency
action potentials (<1 ms post-stimulus) to be detected, facilitating closed-loop applications and
exposing neural activity that would otherwise remain hidden. To illustrate this capability, evoked
activity from microstimulation of the rodent hippocampus is presented. The system is modular, in banks
of 16 channels, and flexible in usage: while primarily designed for in vivo use, it can be combined with
commercial preamplifiers to record from in vitro multielectrode arrays. The system’s open-source
control software, NeuroRighter, is implemented in C#, with an easy-to-use graphical interface. As C#
functions in a managed code environment, which may impact performance, analysis was conducted to
ensure comparable speed to C++ for this application. Hardware schematics, layout files, and software
are freely available. Since maintaining wired headstage connections with freely moving animals is
difficult, we describe a new method of electrode-headstage coupling using neodymium magnets.
Read entire PDF Abstract HERE.
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5/5/09
Triangle BioSystems moves to newly purchased office.
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TBSI is pleased to announce that we have purchased a building which is located at 2228 Page Road, Suite 108, Durham, NC 27703. Our new building will have newly renovated office space and electronic lab space. The actual move date is planned for May 27, 2009. Our phone lines and website URL will remain the same. Our new building is located in Research Triangle Park at the Brassfield Office Complex near Brier Creek located 1.5 miles east from our old office on Miami Blvd.
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4/17/09
Triangle BioSystems Receives 2009 Best of Durham Award
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U.S. Local Business Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement
WASHINGTON D.C., March 20, 2009 -- For the second consecutive year, Triangle Bio Systems has been selected for the 2009 Best of Durham Award in the Electronic Research & Development category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).
The USLBA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
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Nationwide, only 1 in 70 (1.4%) 2008 Award recipients qualified as 2009 Award Winners. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2009 USLBA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USLBA and data provided by third parties.
About U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA)
U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA) is a Washington D.C. based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USLBA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising.
The USLBA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America.
SOURCE: U.S. Local Business Association
CONTACT:
U.S. Local Business Association
Email: PublicRelations@USLocalBusinessAssociation.com
URL: http://www.USLocalBusinessAssociation.com
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4/14/09
TBSI will showcase in the Experimental Biology 2009 Poster Session
EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 2009 Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Hall A
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• Abstract Title: Wireless Neural Recording for Mice and Rats
• First Author: James Morizio, Ph.D.
• Poster Session Title: Neurobiology
• Date/Time: Wednesday, April 22 - 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
• Poster Board Number/Program Number: LB36
• Abstract Number: 434
• Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A
View abstract poster here:
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3/25/09
Technology Improvements
TBSI announces the availability of our refreshed line of W-Series headstages. A re-design of the analog electronics within each of the headstages have enabled a much lighter and smaller package while maintaining or extending the battery life. The custom analog VLSI electronics and printed circuits boards have been re-designed with improved battery technology thus enabling a 30% size and weight reduction, better temperature stability, and increased number of channels. In addition, a new covering process is also used as an outer protective shell, which protects and seals the electronics and provides a better looking device. Our 4 Channel W-Series wireless headstage has been discontinued and replaced with a 5 Channel Wireless device. We were able to improve the design of this headstage to add an extra channel that can be used as either another reference or input signal. In addition, the battery life has more than doubled from 1 hour 2.5 hours while the headstage weight was reduced from 2.8 grams to 2.4 grams.
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1/25/09
TBSI announces the addition of distributors in our Asia Pacific network of distribution partners.
Kuo Yang Scientific Corp. under the leadership of Paul Chuan joins us in the Taiwan region. Kuo Yang was established in October of 1991 and is well known in the fields of life science, science education and medical education with customers in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and governmental agencies.
Scitech Korea Inc. joins us in support of the South Korea region. Led by BK Yu, Scitech Korea was established in January of 1986 and focuses on the major fields of Physiology, Pharmacology, Neuroscience, Biology and related Lab Instruments.
Bio Reasearch Center Co., Ltd. under the leadership of Kiyoaki Mori, President joins us to focus on the industry in Japan.
Finally, Precision Technologies PTE Ltd comes to us to support the Singapore and Indonesia regions. Focused on the areas of Animal Research, Clinical & Diagnostics, Cell Biology, Proteomics, Plant Related Products, Microbiology Instruments and General Lab equipment, Precision is well known in their area of the world. Precision is led by Mr. Richard Wong, General Manager.
These distributors are now authorized by TBSI to sell and support our recording and stimulation products. As you can see, we are strongly committed to the Asia Pacific / Southeast Asia Region from China to Australia. Look for future announcements regarding the AP region as we continue to bolster our distribution channel to better support our customers. Also, look for changes to the Distributor pages on the Triangle BioSystems website in the near future with contact information and other distributor resources.
We look forward to working closely with these new distributors and welcome them as they join the TBSI family to jointly serve our customers in Asia Pacific. If you have any additional questions, please contact TBSI headquarters in Durham, North Carolina, USA at 919-361-2663.
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12/1/08Triangle BioSystems completes another successful participation at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting in 2008.We have been involved with SfN’s annual meeting for 6 consecutive years exhibiting our products and technology. In addition this year, TBSI sponsored a Wireless Neural Recording Technologies satellite session on Sunday evening during this exhibition. This event focused on the wireless technologies that enable and enhance neural recordings utilizing small animals for research. Presenters included Kristin Kerr from Brown University who reviewed data from postrhinal cortex single units. She collected this data with a TBSI 31 channel wireless headstage while rats performed the terrain location association task. Ruey Chang from Duke University presented single unit and local field potentials collected from a 15 channel TBSI wireless headstage in rats. These rats were trained by food reward to classify the duration of a visual stimulus as short (4 s) or long (16 s) by pressing a corresponding lever. Finally, Sabyasachi Roy, an Electronics & Communications Engineering graduate from Montana State presented results from his single units collected from our 16 channel wireless headstage on free roaming common marmosets. Presentations are available HERE for review. If you have any questions, please contact TBSI at 919-361-2663.
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10/19/08Triangle Bio Systems Receives 2008 Best of Durham Award.WASHINGTON D.C., October 19, 2008 -- Triangle BioSystems has been selected for the 2008 Best of Durham Award in the Electronic Research & Development category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA). The USLBA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2008 USLBA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USLBA and data provided by third parties. About U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA)U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA) is a Washington D.C. based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USLBA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising. The USLBA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America. SOURCE: U.S. Local Business AssociationCONTACT: U.S. Local Business Association Email: PublicRelations@USLBA.net USLBA Website
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8/8/08
Led by Dr. Warren Meck and graduate student Ruey Cheng, the lab is beta testing our 15 channel wireless system to record single unit and local field potential data from rats while they are learning to discriminate between different signal durations. The use of psychophysical procedures of this sort allows researchers to identify ‘timing’ neurons in the brain that are associated with the different anchor durations, in Warren’s case… 4s and 16s.
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Other neurons can be linked to signal onset, motor responses, or the delivery of food reward. Preliminary results suggest that the dorsal lateral striatum contains neurons that differentially respond to either the 4-s or the 16-s anchor duration, although the rat is simultaneously timing both durations on the same trial. Moreover, the firing of these ‘timing’ neurons appears to be independent of other sensory or motor events.
Warren Meck's Duke University Website
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7/21/08 TBSI attended FENS 2008 in Geneva and shared a booth our European partner & distributor, NeuroStar from Germany. Both TBSI and NeuroStar were pleased with the overall success of the conference with over 100%0 attendees. TBSI distributes and sells NeuroStar’s Stereotaxic hardware and software in North America. Neurostar is TBSI’s distributor of our brain stimulation, monitoring and recording devices for the European market.
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3/26/08 - Triangle Biosystems (TBSI) is happy to announce the addition of two new resellers of our popular headstage products. Marsap Services Pvt. Ltd. of Mumbai, India will market and sell TBSI products solely in India. Also, Protech International Inc., headquartered in Texas, USA, also has offices through Asia and will mainly market and sell TBSI product in Singapore. We are excited to welcome these new resellers to TBSI and bring focus to new geographic regions where we were currently not selling. Triangle Biosystems is truly a worldwide company and we are committed to expanding the scope and reach of our products.
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3/18/08 - Triangle Biosystems (TBSI) announces a newly issued patent for the Wireless Neural Data Acquisition System. This system includes a headstage, RF receiver, analog to digital converter, digital signal processor, and communication signal interface. This patent is further evidence of Triangle BioSystem’s leadership in the Neurophysiology industry and is one of the many reasons to consider TBSI products. This technology, found in our wireless recording systems contributes to our industry leading position and world class product portfolio. For more information on patent # 7,346,312, please click HERE for details.
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3/1/08 - Triangle Biosystems (TBSI) announces the addition of another distributor in our network of distribution partners. Upwards Biosystems Ltd. [Taiwan], under the leadership of Samuel Huang will cover locations in Asia Pacific, specifically Taiwan and Hong Kong under the Upwards BioSystems name. Their product set is in the areas of biological and medical research. Their sister company, Upwards Teksystems Ltd. out of Beijing, China will distribute in China. UBL is now an authorized distributor of TBSI recording and stimulation products. Upwards Teksystems Ltd., established in Hong Kong in 1992, is the branch company of Upwards Biosystems Ltd. who was established in Taiwan in 1973. Beijing and Shanghai office of Upwards Teksystems Ltd. is for American and European biological, medical and psychological research equipment promotion in China mainland. We look forward to working closely with the Upward family to serve our joint customers in Asia Pacific. If you have any additional questions, please contact TBSI headquarters in Durham, North Carolina, USA at 919-361-2663.
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2/22/08 - Today, Triangle BioSystems (TBSI) of Durham, North Carolina makes a significant product announcement to enhance tethered neural recording experiments on freely moving animals.
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We are announcing our M-Series (for Multiplexer-Series) products based on customer feedback we have received that use our existing lightweight, miniaturized tethered headstages for neural recording experiments. The product has been under development for much of the past year and is a tribute to our engineering, development and manufacturing teams.
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Specifically, this unique product will significantly reduce the number of wires required for a freely moving animal test in a tethered environment without reducing the input electrode channel count at the headstage. Our new M-Series headstage(s) and receiver(s) are used with an inexpensive 10 wire cable and 10 channel commutator that can now connect to over 200 independent channels of electrode connections! Bulky and heavy cable harnesses and expensive motorized commutators for channel counts above 32 channels are no longer needed for your behavioral experiments.
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In fact, a single 4 wire tethered connection can connect up to 30 channels. If more channels are required beyond 30, a researcher can easily add an additional M-Series 30 channel headstage at the animal, with only 1 additional wire in the tethered cable. For example, a 60 channel, 90 channel or 120 channel M-Series headstage system will only have 5, 6 or 7 wires respectively coming off the animal thus providing for a far more lighter and mobile tethered headstage system. The maximum M-Series 210 channel system will have only 10 wires to provide great opportunities for neural experimentation at an affordable cost.
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We expect the M-Series headstages to offer an affordable tethered solution for customers that have not yet moved to a wireless environment and require more channels using their low cost commutators. We are please to make the M-Series products available to the neural recording community.
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For additional information, please refer to our Neural Recording page, and refer to the “M-Series” Multiplexer Headstage product briefs. Should you have any more questions, please contact our office at 919-361-2663.
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2/16/08 - Today Triangle Biosystems (TBSI) is happy to announce that Neurostar GmbH of Sindelfingen, Germany has become an authorized distributor for TBSI Neurology recording products. Neurostar will sell throughout Europe to customers in the following countries: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Austria. Neurostar develops, manufactures and markets hardware and software systems for functional neurosurgery and fundamental neuroscience, with an emphasis on invasive electrophysiological brain mapping, data analysis and multi-information rendering. Neurostar was established in 2002. We look forward to working closely with Neurostar and serving our joint customers. Please look for Neurostar/TBSI at the FENS exhibition this year in Zurich, Switzerland during July as we will be sharing an exhibit space. If you have any additional questions, please contact TBSI headquarters in Durham, North Carolina, USA at 919-361-2663.
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1/16/08 - TBSI announces new Trade-In and Upgrade programs for existing customers to maintain product investment value.
Now, customers that have bought 4 channel and 15 channel wireless systems can trade “up” to 15 channel and 31 channel wireless systems. “We are protecting our customer’s investment with this announcement” said Mike Calarco, Sales and Marketing Director. An example of a trade-in scenario would be a customer that has bought a 15 channel wireless system last year, but now has expanded the parameters of their testing project. With the special pricing of the trade-in program, they can trade-in their 15 channel product for a brand new 31 channel wireless system. This allows customers on limited budgets to expand their testing ranges. Also available are upgrades from 16 channel tethered products to 32 channel tethered products. A future trade-in program has also been announced for customers that currently buy TBSI 8 channel tethered products so they can be confident that their investment will be protected.
The TBSI upgrade program allows customers that have purchased previous versions of our popular hardware to upgrade to a newer version of the same product to take advantage of the latest enhancements. Special pricing will allow customers on a limited budget to maintain the latest version of their favorite hardware products.
For additional information, including available trade-in and upgrade paths and pricing, please contact TBSI at 919-361-2663.
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11/30/07 - Triangle BioSystems adds distributor in Australia and New Zealand. Based in Australia, Bioengenesis Technologies has become TBSI's distributor for this geography led by Dr. Tony Paolini.
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10/01/07 - Triangle BioSystems makes new 31 Channel Wireless Headstage system generally available. It weighs less than 7.2g and can operate wirelessly across 3 meters.
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9/10/07 - Please visit Triangle Biosystems at SFN 2007 this November. We'll be demonstrating our products at booth 1019.
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3/15/07 - Triangle BioSystems announces availability of 4 Channel Wireless Neural Headstage for mice and birds.
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