Gary Fogel Gives Invited Lecture at the 2004 Society of Toxicology Meeting

Baltimore, Maryland - Dr. Gary Fogel, Vice President of Natural Selection, Inc.^®, gave an invited lecture at the 43^rd annual Society of Toxicology meeting, held at the convention center in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Fogel’s keynote address, titled “Correlating Gene Expression with Genotoxicity Using Computational Intelligence,” provided a broad overview of the application of evolved neural networks to gene expression analysis. Approximately 75 people were in attendance for the lecture, which was sponsored by Althea Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, California). Dr. Fogel said “the conference organizers deserve a great deal of credit for putting together such an excellent program. I’m very pleased to have the opportunity to participate in this event and share some our company’s most-recent research with the toxicology community.”

Natural Selection, Inc.^® was founded in 1993 to address complex problems in industry, medicine, and defense. The company possesses unique expertise in computational intelligence techniques, including evolutionary computation, neural networks, and fuzzy logic. The corporation's research efforts support the discovery of new pharmaceuticals, the automated detection and diagnosis of breast cancer from film-screen mammograms, optical character recognition, and a variety of military and industrial projects.

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Dr. David B. Fogel
Chief Executive Officer
Natural Selection, Inc.
3333 N. Torrey Pines Ct.
Suite 200
La Jolla, CA, 92037
tel: (858) 455-6449
fax: (858) 455-1560
dfogel@natural-selection.com