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March 7, 2008
Stratatech President and CSO recieves 2008 Individual Technology Achievement Award

Dr. Lynn Allen Hoffmann, Stratatech President and CSO receives the 2008 Individual Technology Achievement Award from The MIT Club of Wisconsin. The Technology Achievement Awards recognize those who are making a major contribution to Wisconsin's economy through technological change. Dr. Allen-Hoffmann is Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Professor Allen-Hoffmann and her staff discovered the NIKS™ human keratinocyte cell line in 1996. After 2 years of extensive testing and characterization by Dr. Allen-Hoffmann’s laboratory, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) filed the initial patent on the cells. In 2000, Dr. Allen-Hoffmann founded Stratatech Corporation and obtained exclusive, worldwide patent rights to the NIKS™ human keratinocyte cell line. Stratatech Corporation specializes in therapeutic, biologically-active human skin substitutes generated with NIKS™ keratinocytes and cells derived from them. Both WARF and Stratatech Corporation have filed several additional patent applications on improvements made to the core technology. Stratatech Corporation currently employs twenty three scientific and technical staff. The Company is located at the University Research Park in Madison, in the MG&E Innovation Center.

First held in March 2003, the Technology Achievement Awards and the MIT Club of Wisconsin received the MIT Alumni Association's 2005 Presidential Citation, the highest honor given to an organization. This program is unique throughout the world, among all MIT Alumni clubs. The 6th annual award banquet will be March 7th, 2008 in Waukesha Wisconsin. Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Professor, University of Wisconsin - Department of Pathobiological Sciences and Winner of the 2007 MIT Club of Wisconsin Individual Award, will be the keynote speaker.