University of Maryland Grants Link Plus Exclusive Worldwide License to MIPs Technology for Viral Threat Detection

COLUMBIA, MD--(Marketwire - January 22, 2008) - Link Plus Corporation announced today that the University of Maryland has granted the Company an exclusive, worldwide license for Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIPs) developed for the binding, separation, and subsequent detection, of viruses and bacteria. Link Plus will focus on commercializing products that help detect and identify viral threats to homeland security. This Agreement, along with an existing exclusive license with The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) for MIPs technology used to detect chemical and explosive threats, makes Link Plus the most comprehensive source of MIPs-related threat detection solutions available today. Link Plus now develops MIPs detection solutions for explosives, chemical agents, toxins, poisons, and pesticides and, with this license, biological agents as well.