No More Needles? Georgetown University Teams with Gentag and SAIC to Develop New Glucose Sensor Technology with Wireless Connection to Cell Phones

WASHINGTON, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgetown University, Gentag,
Inc., and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC, NYSE: SAI),
have combined forces to develop a non-invasive method for glucose
measurement. The three technology leaders agreed to combine their
respective intellectual property (IP) and expertise to create a new method
to monitor glucose, using disposable skin patches with wireless sensors and
cell phones. The resulting products could eliminate the need for finger
pricking with lancets to draw blood for people of all ages with diabetes.

"This alliance provides an excellent example of cooperation between
academia and industry to bring creative healthcare solutions to the
marketplace," said Claudia Stewart, Vice President of Technology
Commercialization at Georgetown University.

The combined technology will enable the development of a unique new
platform and approach for glucose monitoring and insulin delivery using
cell phones. One potential market application could be a disposable,
wireless skin patch that measures glucose levels and reports those levels
to a cell phone that could also wirelessly control an insulin pump.

By using soft, flexible skin patches, combined with new sensor-chip
technology, the traditional pain and discomfort of the current "finger
prick" technology could be dramatically reduced or eliminated. The patches
would be designed to provide readings once every hour for a 24-hour period.
Using cell phones as readers would allow for convenience of a device many
already use and are familiar with, as well as many other benefits,
including emergency geolocation of patients.

"We expect that this new, painless, disposable, wireless, glucose
sensor technology will significantly improve diabetes monitoring
worldwide," said John Peeters, founder and president of Gentag, Inc.

With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
at the Department of Defense, John Currie, a professor of Physics and
director of Georgetown Advanced Electronics Laboratory (GAEL), Mak
Paranjape, an associate professor of Physics and researcher at GAEL Health
Microsystems at Georgetown, and SAIC researchers Thomas Schneider and
Robert White, who worked in the area of micro-electro-mechanical systems
(MEMS), initially developed the skin patch technology to monitor the status
of soldiers in a battlefield.

The SAIC and Georgetown glucose sensor technology has been developed
for DARPA and can be combined with Gentag's cell phone RFID-sensor reader
platform technology.

Under the terms of the agreement, Gentag, Georgetown and SAIC have
agreed to pool their IP and to sell or license the combined technology to a
company developing glucose monitors or insulin-delivery systems under a
competitive bidding process.

The technology is protected by twenty-one issued and pending U.S. and
international patents. Diabetes is a growing international health problem.
In the United States, medical expenditures totaled $116 billion in 2007 and
were comprised of $27 billion for diabetes care, $58 billion for chronic
diabetes-related complications, and $31 billion for excess general medical
costs according to the American Diabetes Association.

For more information about acquisition or licensing terms, please
contact Claudia Stewart, Vice President, Office of Technology
Commercialization, Georgetown University at (202)-687-7424 or at
cs477@georgetown.edu.

About Gentag

Gentag, Inc. is a technology development company focusing on the
creation of innovative, low-cost, wireless sensor technologies based on
cell phones. The company owns a unique intellectual property portfolio
relating to cell-phone sensor combinations and wireless sensor networks and
was recently awarded Frost & Sullivan's 2008 North American Award for
Technology Innovation. For more information, visit http://www.gentag.com.

About Georgetown University

Georgetown University is the oldest and largest Catholic and Jesuit
university in America, founded in 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll.
Georgetown today is a major student-centered, international, research
university offering respected undergraduate, graduate and professional
programs in Washington, DC, Doha, Qatar and around the world. For more
information about Georgetown University, visit http://www.georgetown.edu