Jim Nash founded Synergistic Research Systems in 1985, the previous name for Synergy Research Inc., out of a personal commitment to decrease duplication of effort, seeing that various laboratories around the country seemed to duplicate software development efforts creating the same functionality over and over again. We have found that, by developing custom software to a commercial standard, each contributing laboratory can immediately use improvements written for other laboratories. This approach produces easy to use (Window based) software on a laboratory budget. The company was named after the word synergy because of this philosophy.
We incorporated in January 1996 and changed the name to Synergy Research Inc. and hired Dr. Larry Woltz, physicist.
Dawn Gregory wrote the behavioral science program Score which formed the foundation of the liquid delivery system Feeder.
Dr. Kyle Hedges, medical physicist, joined us from 1998 to the end of 2000. While he was with us, he developed the program SRView.
Currently we are working on robotic targeting (Target), behavioral data acquisition (Feeder) and brain imaging (SRView and AFNI).