Spotlight on a Penn State Innovation Park Success Story: Salimetrics
Salimetrics, a global leader in salivary bioscience, has been successfully bridging the areas of academic research and product development for nearly twenty years. The company was co-founded by Penn State researchers Doug Granger and Eve Schwartz, together with State College investor Dick Supina, and began in a tiny basement lab at Penn State—the Behavioral Endocrinology Lab (BEL).
Researchers at the BEL study the relationship between biomarkers (e.g. the hormones cortisol and testosterone) and behavioral patterns such as aggressiveness. Measurement of these biomarkers was historically made using blood serum, which has obvious drawbacks. The creative genius behind work at Penn State’s BEL, eventually transferred to Salimetrics for commercial applications, was to substitute the use of blood-serum assays with salivary assays.
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