SentiSearch, Inc. (SSRC)

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And confirmation that SSRC benefits from Dr. Axel's research. From the 8k:

"The Parties agree that know how and materials derived from Dr. Richard Axel’s laboratory at Columbia using Drosophila sequences and used in the discovery or development of any know how including but not limited to Anopholes species will be treated as Licensed Technical Information under this Agreement."

Dr. Axel's $5 million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (for this specific research) was recently renewed, and his Columbia lab has 27 researchers.

From the New York Times, published 12/21/10:

As the inventors of “a cell line that behaves like a mosquito antenna, recreating mosquito smellers in a dish,” Leslie B. Vosshall of Rockefeller University and Dr. Richard Axel, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Columbia University, got $5 million to hunt for molecules that could block mosquitoes’ ability to detect people. Dr. Axel shared a 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine for cloning insects’ olfactory receptors.
“When you puff human odors over the cells, they get excited just like mosquitoes would,” Dr. Vosshall explained. In this case, they turn fluorescent green.
They tested 91,000 compounds in Rockefeller University’s chemical library and found five that jammed the antennae. Their Gates grant is renewed for two years, but they now have a contract with Bayer CropSciences to screen its two million compounds — the same smell mechanism is used by corn borers, apple maggot flies and other farm pests.
The ideal, Dr. Axel said, is a repellent harmless to humans that works at a fraction of the concentration of DEET..."

From the last SSRC 10k:
"We believe the applications offering the greatest potential for developing products in the intermediate term are for mosquito repellants to be sold by household product companies"

The whole NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/health/21gates.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp

Dr Axel's website; 28 scientists work in his lab at Columbia University
http://www.axellab.columbia.edu/home.php.html