ASL Analytical is an exciting venture initiated by a group of academicians.  The company was incorporated in February 2005 by the following founding members: Kenneth D. Legg, Mark A. Arnold, Gary W. Small, and Jonathon T. Olesberg.  Dr. Legg is President of ASL Analytical and provides considerable expertise in the glucose sensing market.  As a co-founder of Inverness Medical Technologies, Dr. Legg was instrumental in the development of a successful line of glucose test-strip meters that was eventually purchased by Johnson & Johnson and is marketed today under the One Touch FastTake brand name.  Professors Arnold and Small are on the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa.  These researchers have worked for a dozen years to understand the analytical and spectroscopic requirements for measuring glucose noninvasively in human subjects.  Dr. Olesberg is a senior researcher in Professor Arnold’s research group and has contributed greatly to the fundamental understanding of noninvasive near infrared clinical measurements.  Dr. Olesberg provides expertise in instrumentation and has considerable experience with the evaluation and improvement of early instrumental prototypes and in the analysis of spectroscopic data collected from complex tissue matrixes.