RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, JUNE 1, 2022 – NIRvana Sciences, Inc., the leading developer of synthetic bacteriochlorins and chlorins, today announced that it has been awarded a Phase I SBIR grant from the National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, May 4, 2022 – NIRvana Sciences, Inc., the leading developer of synthetic bacteriochlorins and chlorins, today announced that it has become a Semi-Finalist in the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry’s (ISAC) CYTO 2022 Technology Showcase being held in Philadelphia, PA USA.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, OCTOBER 1, 2021 – NIRvana Sciences, Inc., the leading developer of synthetic bacteriochlorins and chlorins, today announced that it has been awarded a Phase I SBIR grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Research Triangle, NC, April 3rd, 2019 – NIRvana Sciences, Inc., the leading developer of synthetic bacteriochlorins and chlorins, today announced that it has been awarded a $3 Million Phase IIb SBIR grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Research Triangle, NC, December 1st, 2018 – The company announced today that it had moved a few miles down the road to Alexandria Innovation Center located at 7020 Kit Creek Road, Suite 230, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. The larger facility will support an expanding chemistry team as it moves towards commercial operations.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, March 7th, 2018 – NIRvana Sciences CEO, Russell Thomas, presented on the main stage of the CED Life Science conference in the Lightning Round held at the Raleigh Convention Center. Additionally, NIRvana Sciences had a booth in the Innovation Room with several other early stage life science companies to facilitate investor and collaboration discussions.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, June 11th, 2017 – A fresh, vibrant new look for a company bringing many new dye colors to the life sciences world including more information about our bacteriochlorin and chlorin dyes and applications. Please check out our new dyes pages and news updates at your convenience.

SEATTLE, WA, June 12th, 2016 – NIRvana Sciences scientists is presenting a poster at the 31st Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (CYTO 2016) entitled: “Chlorins: A Novel Family of Violet Laser-Excitable Red to Far-Red Fluorophores for Polychromatic Flow Cytometry”. Working together with scientists at North Carolina State University, NIRvana Sciences demonstrated that a palette of five violet-excitable chlorins with narrow emissions between 603nm and 719nm can be effectively separated using conventional flow cytometer optics and commercially available filter sets.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, June 1st, 2016 – NIRvana is proud to welcome Chris MacNevin to the team. Chris received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Emory and completed a post-doc at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he focused on synthesis and bio-applications of cyanine-type dyes.