Company Awards and Honors

Luna Innovations Incorporated was acknowledged by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce with a Torchbearer Award for the Western Region of Virginia. The awards honor businesses whose products, services and management practices have boosted Virginia's progress and success in recent years.
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Luna Innovations was acknowledged by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce with a Torchbearer Award for the Western Region of Virginia. The awards honor businesses whose products, services and management practices have boosted Virginia's progress and success in recent years.
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Luna Innovations was named the Overall Small Business of the Year by the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce. Luna also was awarded the Small Business of the Year Award in the Technology category.Read the news release.
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Luna Technologies' Optical Backscatter Reflectometer (OBR™) with distributed sensing has received a 2007 R&D 100 Award from the editors of R&D Magazine as one of the 100 most technologically significant new products introduced into the marketplace in the last year.
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Luna Technologies’ Optical Backscatter Reflectometer (OBR™) with distributed sensing received a 2007 "Best in Test" Honorable Mention Award from the editors of Test & Measurement World magazine.
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EDAC™ System Recognized with Frost & Sullivan 2006 Patient Monitoring Technology of the Year Award for the innovative design and development of the Embol us Detection and Classification (EDAC™) QUANTIFIER, cardiopulmonary bubble detector that uses quantitative ultrasound technology to non-invasively detect gaseous emboli in an extracorporeal bypass circuit line. It is used for cardiopulmonary bypass procedures, such as open heart surgery.
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2006 Tibbetts Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration
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2005 Nano50™ Award recognizing the top 50 technologies, innovators, and products with the greatest potential to advance the commercialization of nanotechnology.
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2005 Governor's Technology Award for Entrepreneurship – acknowledging a business which best exemplifies the Virginia entrepreneurial spirit through use of technology to grow into new markets, to markedly increase jobs inside the Commonwealth of Virginia, and/or participate in local or regional business associations or activities.
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2004 Serial Award Virginia’s first Small Business Research Commercialization Awards presented at the Annual SBIR Conference for repeat commercialization success.
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2004 High Technology Company of the Year from the New Century Technology Council
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2004 Industrialist of the Year from the Virginia Science Museum to CEO Kent Murphy
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2004 Emerging Company of the Year to Luna Technologies from Frost & Sullivan
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2003 Optical Test Product of the Year to Luna Technologies from Frost & Sullivan
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2002 Tibbetts Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration
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2001 Virginia SBIR Entrepreneur of the Year to CEO Dr. Kent Murphy