STAR Park Welcomes New Client

The company has significant angel investor backing, a business management team with over 50 years of combined experience and a strong research and development team led by Dr. Akwasi Minta…

Ion Indicators LLC has joined Texas State University’s STAR Park as its most recent incubator client and will move into STAR One Fri. May 4.

Ion Indicators designs, manufactures and sells fluorescent ion indicators used in biological and medical research. Synthetic dyes measure changes in ion concentration caused by the introduction of compounds facilitating the rapid identification of molecules.

The process allows pharmaceutical firms and researchers to more effectively screen molecules that could become the basis for new drugs.

The company has significant angel investor backing, a business management team with over 50 years of combined experience and a strong research and development team led by Dr. Akwasi Minta.

“The availability of industry standard laboratory space, the opportunity to engage in mutually beneficial collaborations with Texas State and a support environment to assist with our growth made locating at STAR One an ideal solution,” said Jon Sheppard, CFO/COO of Ion Indicators.

“With the addition of Ion Indicators, our 36,000 sq. ft technology business incubator has reached full capacity. They were the ideal candidate for admission with a strong management team, a scalable business model and an interest in interaction with the University,” said Stephen Frayser, Executive Director of STAR Park

The Science Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Park is Texas State University’s 58-acre research park dedicated to collaboration with industry, government laboratories and nonprofit research institutions to accelerate innovation commercialization and entrepreneurship in the Innovation Corridor.