Issue of Nov. 15, 2005
By: Hilary Parker and George Spohr
Phyton Biotech receives award
PRINCETON DFB Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Texas-based manufacturer of technology-driven pharmaceutical products, has awarded Phyton Biotech, which moved to Princeton last month, with a research and development award.
"These outstanding scientists are invaluable to our company," H. Paul Dorman, chairman and CEO of DFB, said of Phyton’s staff. "Their collective achievements are remarkable, and each individual is emblematic of the finest efforts in our field and of the crucial work underway that supports DFB’s aggressive strategic plan."
Venkatesh Srinivasan, Phython’s director of business development, received an award for his approach to complex research and development challenges. Dr. Srinivasan’s work enabled the commercialization and success of Phyton’s cell culture-based production of paclitaxel, the active ingredient in Bristol-Myers Squibb’s anti-cancer drug, Taxol.
Sarnoff offers video codec
WEST WINDSOR Sarnoff Corp. will offer its H.264 video codec on MIPS Technologies’ products, Sarnoff said.
That mean’s that Sarnoff technology will be used in MIPS’ mobile TVs, cell phones, VoIP terminals,and other portable media devices to encode, decode and display vivid, high-resolution, full-motion video for television, teleconferences, movies, camcorder features, music videos and other business and entertainment applications.
Sarnoff’s technology draws low power for long battery life, it said. By choosing which of the hardware-based accelerators are implemented, users can optimize the cost/power tradeoffs to the specific device being designed. This allows them to customize device performance and maintain brand differentiation.

