I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing holiday weekend. While we are fortunate to be afforded this time off, we are forever cognizant and grateful for the people who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country so we can remain a free society. As the saying goes, freedom is not free and we should never forget that. It is always nice to get some time away, even if it is for a short period of time, to recharge your battery. It is hard to be fully effective without som

The holiday weekend is almost upon us. Looking forward to getting some “down time” over the next few days. Unfortunately, as an entrepreneur, there is no real down time. You are always thinking about the company in terms of how we are doing in terms of program progress, what do we need to do going forward, designing program timelines, how we bring in more revenue (that one can keep you up at night), chasing promising leads (I spend a lot more time on this than I like to) a

Time sure does fly by when you’re having fun. And this week is no exception. We spent a good portion of the week getting ourselves ready to begin work on making a drug-eluting access graft that we proposed for KidneyX. This entailed having discussions with key collaborators (Drs. Yael Vin, Nikhil Agrawal and Mauricio Contreras) on the program to develop and refine our project plan, get our lab in order (we scientist tend to be pack rats so we needed to do some housekeeping

Thinking of the what to call this week's blog, I was brought back to the times when one would watch an old mystery show on TV (and no I am not THAT old, but still remember this) when each episode would end saying, "And now, here is the aftermath of their story." Sort of has a dark connotation to it but in our case, it could not be further from that thought. You may ask how does BioSurfaces follow up a productive and eventful week that saw the company receive the prestigious

BioSurfaces (Ashland, MA) in collaboration with clinical partners at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA) was selected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the American Society of Nephrology as 1 of the 15 winning teams for Phase 1 of the first annual KidneyX Redesign Dialysis prize competition. KidneyX received 165 applications that underwent strict peer-reviewed by patients, industry and academia. The c

It has been a long time coming, but our blog has finally arrived! Sorry for the long wait but science and business sometimes gets in the way. We have been extremely busy on several fronts, from developing our internal technology to working with partners where our technology is applied. I will provide some more info on some of the work we are doing as time goes on and give you a glimpse of what is to come. Be on the lookout every Friday evening for new posts. There are so