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

Hope you are all doing well.  Life has changed so much since the beginning of the year.  I would like to point out (always being an optimist) that these types of crises tend to bring out the best in people.  These stories tend to get lost in the news but if you think about a majority of people practicing social distancing and limiting travel, giving up their freedoms to fight a common foe, it is a pretty impressive undertaking.  It is something we are not used to...

Hope you are all doing well.  It is unbelievable what has transpired in a week’s time.  We have more people being infected and hospitalized with this virus across the United States.  Our state, like many others, has issued a stay at home order for non-essential companies which has resulted in even more businesses closures.  It is the right move to prevent the spread of the disease, but is so hard to watch so many people affected by the closures.  I have been so i...

Hope you are all doing well.  I know this is a trying time and there is a sense of unknown and uneasiness in the air.  We do not take it lightly, especially when you have some knowledge of how viruses can spread and be a challenge to contain.  As a small business, it is a challenge and something that will keep me up at night since you do not know how long this new norm will persist.  That being said, we are one of the fortunate companies to have some funding avai...

Hope everyone had a good week.  Well, as good as it is to be expected with all of the craziness that has been the coronavirus.  The ripple effects the virus is going to have are going to last for some time to come.  First and foremost, it is unnerving from a personal perspective.  While I believe that most people who get this disease will suffer flu-like symptoms, there will be a group of people who will not be so lucky.   I worry about people like my mom who is...

Hope everyone had a great week.  Hard to believe we are already 10 weeks into the year.  Where does time go?  Time moving this fast is always a challenge for any business, especially a small business.  We have been working diligently to pursue all avenues to advance our technology with various potential partners and customers from the business front as well as the research and development front.  This requires a lot of my focus to be on the business end of things...

Hope everyone had a great week!  While we have been full speed ahead on several different programs (which I will briefly summarize at the end of the blog), our NuSpun™ Vascular Graft took center stage this week.  We have begun to put together data from our preclinical study.  This is a large study that is generating a ton of data so it will take a full team effort to process it all.  This process starts from creating and organizing excel spreadsheets that will ha...

Hope everyone had a great week.  For us, it was a short week due to Presidents’ Day, the last holiday off for the next couple of months.  Guess this is what makes the winter feel a little longer.  This type of week tends to have the team hitting the ground running a little faster than normal because you want to get some things accomplished by the end of the week.  That also includes this blog as well.  I set a goal of getting this blog prepared by Thursday evenin...

Hope everyone had a great week. I know I start most of my blogs this way. Rest assured, I know that not every week can be a great one. Sometimes just getting to Friday is an accomplishment. Some weeks are more productive than others and some you are barely keeping your head above water. I feel that BioSurfaces has been all about advancing our technology in several areas.

I am going to start this blog at the close of last week. When we release the blog (like today’...

Another week in the books! Hope everyone had an awesome week. As you know from reading the blog, I really love my job (even though it can be challenging and frustrating at times). There are so many things that can go on in a “normal” week. That’s what makes the job so much fun. It seems like one minute you are working on or discussing something new, trying to solve a problem, or seeing what changes can be made to an ongoing program. My weekly trek can range from...

Week 5 – Come and Gone                    

Hope everyone had a great week!  Cannot believe we are at the end of January already and bringing on February this weekend.  Most of this week for me has focused on writing, so much so that I wasn’t sure I would have enough left in me to write the blog.  As I get older (I will preface this by saying I’m not over the hill yet), writin...