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Becton, Dickinson and Co., a leading global medical technology company, announced Monday that it has acquired Sirigen Group Limited, a developer of unique polymer dyes that are used in flow cytometry and can be applied to other technologies.

Sirigen is a company originally founded by world-renowned UCSB material scientist and professor Guillermo Bazan along with Dr. Brent Gaylord and Patrick Dietzen.

The company’s technology is based on Nobel Prize-winning research conducted by professor Alan Heeger in conductive plastics and creates the potential for the development of novel dyes that are four to 100 times brighter than conventional dyes — a breakthrough in the field.

The company is a spin-out success story for the UCSB Technology Management Program. Dietzen and Gaylord (then students at UCSB) won the university’s business plan competition in 2003, founded the company shortly thereafter, and licensed all the key intellectual property exclusively from UCSB. READ MORE (Noozhawk)