Virgin Instruments Corporation, doing business as SimulTOF Systems, develops MALDI-TOF and TOF-TOF mass spectrometry solutions for biological and clinical research applications. The firm's Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Marvin Vestal, received the 2010 award for a âDistinguished Contribution to Mass Spectrometryâ from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) and is widely recognized for driving the commercialization of "delayed extraction" MALDI-TOF, which revolutionized the technology. The company's technologies have applications for Molecular Imaging of Biological Samples, Imaging of Brain Tissue Sections, Imaging Mass Spectrometry of Proteins and Peptides with Single-Cell Resolution, Biomarker ID and Analysis, Large Tissue Imaging, and Clinical Resear
