Knoxville, Tennessee, March 8, 2006—Protein Discovery, Inc., a privately held life sciences company, today announced the award of a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to continue development of a fractionation system that prepares human serum for analysis by high throughput mass spectrometry. Protein Discovery will use the grant to further develop, test, and characterize the novel fractionation system.