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Tech Transfer 101: Inland Northwest Region’s Research Universities Learning How to Benefit From Ideas

May 7, 2006 /

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Jim Fleming was a biology professor at Eastern Washington University when he and some colleagues had the idea that would change their lives.

They developed a chemical process to identify the presence of bacteria quickly, something useful in everything from cheese making to screening for terrorist threats.

"There are those who want bugs," Fleming said, "and those who don’t want bugs."

Fleming and his colleagues started GenPrime, a Spokane company that makes and sells testing kits to the Postal Inspection Service, the food industry and others. The company, founded in 1997, employs 16 and has expanded steadily in recent years.

By Shawn Vestal, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.

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