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May 21, 2008
Seyet officials open new office in San Francisco, add vice president of business development
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Skip Sanzeri of Hillsborough, Calif., has been named vice president of new business development for the area. The new office is at 5 Thomas Mellon Circle in San Francisco Executive Park, located near Candlestick Park.
"Skip is a great addition to our team, and our new San Francisco office is just five minutes from South San Francisco and Mission Bay, the major life sciences clusters in the Bay Area," said James Bartek, director of marketing and sales for Seyet. "Skip is from this area and brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and contacts to our company. The strategic location of our new office will open a number of new doors and opportunities for us. This is a milestone for our company."
Seyet is known for its cutting-edge visual communications animations of advanced life sciences technologies.
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"One of the major challenges that life science companies have is to explain scientific terms in a way their different audiences can quickly understand," said Jonathan Kevan, director of research and design for Seyet. "At Seyet, we take complex information and demonstrate it in a visual sense."
The company created a one-minute animated movie that showed the T4 virus attacking an E. coli bacterium for Purdue University microbiologist Michael Rossmann.
"That visualization was downloaded more than 120,000 times in eight months and was part of the most-read National Science Foundation releases for 2004," Bartek said. "We want to take those successes and duplicate them for life sciences companies in California and elsewhere. We believe Skip can help us do that."
According to the BayBio Impact 2008 report, Northern California has 492 products currently in Phase II or III clinical trials, more than any other state, and an additional 235 products in clinical trails in Southern California.
Sanzeri has held a number of positions including CEO, vice president and general manager for a variety of high-tech life sciences companies. He received a master's degree in public administration from the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, Calif., and a bachelor's degree in economics and philosophy from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif.
"There is a huge market for Seyet's scientifically accurate visualizations, and I am excited about promoting cutting-edge animation that is in great demand," Sanzeri said. "This is a project that sells itself - we just need to get the word out."
In 2007 Seyet partnered with two Purdue University centers - the Discovery Learning Center and the Envision Center for Data Perceptualization - to create the Research Visualization Group. The group assists Purdue faculty with visualizations for grant dissemination requirements and publications.
About Seyet
Seyet was founded in 2003 by Purdue University alumni James A. Bartek, S. Lee Gooding and Jonathan M. Kevan. The company delivers visualization solutions that provide concise, clear and accurate means for life sciences companies to communicate complex information that will engage audiences and enable them to make critical decisions. This includes investors, scientists, doctors, sales representatives, patients and juries.
About Purdue Research Park
The 725-acre Purdue Research Park (https://www.purdueresearchpark.com) has the largest university-affiliated business incubation complex in the country. The park is home to more than 140 companies. About 90 of these firms are technology-related and another 39 are incubator businesses. The park was ranked No. 1 in 2004 for university- affiliated research parks and received the 2005 Outstanding Commercialization Award, both from the Association of University Research Parks. The park's companies also have received numerous recognitions, including a 2006 MIRA Award: Innovation of the Year for Purdue Research Park/Quadraspec Inc. and a 2005 CoreNet Global Innovators Award finalist. The Purdue Research Park is part of the Purdue Research Foundation, a private, nonprofit foundation created to assist Purdue University in the area of economic development. In addition to the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, the foundation has established or is currently constructing technology parks in other locations around Indiana including Merrillville, New Albany and Indianapolis.
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PHOTO CAPTION:
A frame from a Seyet LLC-generated visualization based on research by Michael Rossmann, the Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences in Purdue University's College of Science. The image depicts Rossmann's research on the T4 virus as it penetrates the cell membrane of the E. coli bacterium, which the virus infects. The visualization was downloaded more than 120,000 times in eight months and was part of the most-read National Science Foundation releases for 2004.
A publication-quality photo is available at https://www.purdue.edu/uns/images/+2007/RossmannT4.jpg
PHOTO CAPTION
A 2004 frame from a Seyet LLC-generated visualization of an IgG Monoclonal, which is a structure of an IGG antibody taken from a rheumatoid arthritis CME training program for registered nurses. The illustration helps communicate the binding chains of a tetrameric immunoglobulin which is equally distributed in blood and tissue liquids. The IgG Monoclonal binding chains are illustrated by color with the heavy chains shown in bluish-green and the light chains shown in yellow.
A publication-quality photo is available at https://www.purdue.edu/uns/images/+2008/seyet-sanzeri.jpg
Purdue Research Park contact: Cynthia Sequin, (765) 494-4192, (765) 413-6031, casequin@prf.org
Sources:
Jim Bartek, (765) 532-0225, bartek@seyet.com
Skip Sanzeri, (650) 504-0465, skipsanzeri@yahoo.com