BioSurfaces Awarded $894,612 Contract from National Institutes of Health.  Company Expands its Electrospinning Technology for use in 3D Tissue Biofabrication.

Hope everyone is doing well and is safe and healthy.  We finally made it to the halfway point of the year.  It has been a challenging 6 months but here we are.  The new “normal,” which will be this way for some time to come, has begun to take hold (well, at least for most people in Massachusetts – still a few hold-outs that will hopefully get the gist that this is a real issue).  It reminds me when the seat belt law was implemented in Massachusetts.  It was very...

Hope everyone is doing well and is safe and healthy.  I cannot believe that we are already almost halfway through the year.  Where has that time gone?  Being the eternal optimist, we are getting closer to the end of 2020.  I am sure a lot of people reading this blog are looking forward to getting through this year with all that has gone on in the world.  We are fortunate to be in the position that we are in.  So many others have not been so lucky.  We have not ta...

Hope everyone is doing well and is safe and healthy.  I would first like to start out this week’s blog by giving a big shout out to Dom Tommarello and John Berkley of Splash Shield for their generous donation of nonwoven material that we are using to make our masks.  While we haven’t mentioned this in a few weeks, we are continuing to make masks and donate to those who need them.  We continue to improve the process and are getting better at making these devices....

Hope everyone is doing well and is safe and healthy.  Sometimes the week just gets away from you and before you know it, it’s Friday already.  This was one of those weeks.  As I’ve said before, we have been fortunate that we have been able to continue to work through the pandemic so I am not complaining.  Like so many others, we have made adjustments to how the business operates to accommodate the new normal.  Since we are a lab and are making products, we do not...

Hope everyone is doing well and is safe and healthy.  I hope you had a great holiday weekend as well.  It was a well-needed “break” and was nice to be out of the office for most of the weekend.  Summer will hopefully bring more long weekends that will allow me to recharge the battery.  It was nice to be able to see our good friends Ed and Trisha with all social distancing and mask rules maintained.  It had been months since we were last able to see them.  While i...

Hope everyone is doing well and is safe and healthy.  It is great that a long weekend is upon us.  We have been fortunate to be going non-stop over the past 8 weeks.  As an owner of the company, this also includes me going in on the weekends to complete work or get to work that I didn’t have a chance to tackle so I am looking forward to a little break.  I am not telling you this to feel sorry for me since it is self-inflicted, but more as a statement that I am ja...

Hope everyone is doing well and is safe and healthy.  I know that things feel all twisted and upside down, similar to riding a rollercoaster.  There are twists and turns at many points, loops that will twist you all around and times when there is a moment of calm which suddenly accelerates into chaos.  Eventually, the ride slows and comes to an end.  Even after the ride, you are still left feeling queasy and uneasy.  This is the typical feeling of a small busines...

Hope everyone is doing well and is safe and healthy.  As I promised at the end of the last week’s blog, I will deviate from most of my discussion focusing on COVID-19-related issues.  I know that we are all inundated with a lot of the information being released which can bring some anxiety so I am hoping to bring you a little touch of “normal” business this week.  When I thought about the two areas I wanted to discuss this week, a status update on the bioactive m...

Hope everyone is doing well and is safe and healthy.  We continue to be one of the fortunate businesses that is still surviving in these trying times.  There is nothing normal about what we are dealing with.  I continue to hear from different vendors that business is significantly down, with numbers ranging from 50% - 80%.  Some companies are reducing workforces or fully laying off their staff.  It is really hard to understand how gut-wrenching these decisions ar...

Hope all is well and that everyone is staying safe.  I know I have been leading with this statement in my blogs over the past several weeks.  I haven’t just left that statement in there as a generic greeting.  This is one of the first things that I think about each day.  From our family to team members to friends and acquaintances, you are always in my thoughts.  This is such a challenging virus, one that will change our lives for the foreseeable future.   The di...