3.6.11 Funds Abroad

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Will all research and development on the project be performed in its entirety in the United States?
No. A small amount of background data will be collected in Canada. Tree Star will be comparing the performance of our automated gating algorithms to the gating performance of cytometry technicians at three laboratories. Two of these are within the US; one is in British Columbia, where a collaborating scientist long associated with our company, Dr. Ryan Brinkman, has his laboratory.

We plan to collect data on the human gating performance to provide a baseline against which we can measure the performance of software we are developing. The human gating data is not the subject of our project. We will not be supporting his ongoing research. The data collected is ancillary to research in his laboratory not the subject of his research.

The sequence of gating is unique to our collaborators' research. Our goal is to duplicate the sequence and quality of the technicians’ expert performance on this specific task without human intervention.

No grant funds will be spent in the collection of this data. The software project will be conducted entirely in the US and the comparison and analysis of its performance will also be done at our Ashland, Oregon business site.