Misha Plam

Sievers Instruments, Inc. was the analytical instrument company, manufacturer of portable, laboratory and process total organic carbon (TOC) analyzers, elemental analyzers and element specific detectors for the gas chromatography. It offered a full range of instrumentation for measurement low levels of total organic carbon (TOC) in water, including: The Portable TOC Analyzer and TOC Autosampler, on-line pharmaceutical TOC analyzer, turbo reclaim TOC analyzer, ultrapure ppt TOC analyzer, on-line pharmaceutical TOC analyzer and ap pharmaceutical TOC Analyzer. Its line of instruments includes: sulfur specific analyzer (SSA), sulfur chemiluminescense detector (SCD), nitrogen chemiluminescense detector (NCD) and nitric oxide analyzer (NOA). The company was founded in 1984 and headquartered in Boulder, CO.

BiOptix Diagnostics, Inc. develops biosensor for detection of bacteria and viruses. Its product 404pi offers scientists that require label-free, real-time detection of bio-molecular interactions an extremely high sensitivity, low noise instrument. The company was founded by Misha Plam, Slava Petropavlovskikh and Oyvind Nilsen in 2003 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.