Blister pack capability
We have installed a Nelipak blister pack machine in our cleanroom facility. In addition to continual expansion of our electrospinning expertise with different raw materials, we are also increasing our post-processing capabilities. The post-spinning treatment of an electrospun membrane is critical for its use as a medical device or medical device component. Our post-processing capabilities include: Vacuum drying… Read more »
EUPOC Electrospinning techniques – Italy – 12-16 May 2019
Dr Matei Cirstea will be presenting at the European polymer federation EUPOC conference in Lake Como, Italy from 12th to 16th May 2019. Matei’s talk is titled: THE NEXT STEP: TRANSLATING ELECTROSPINNING BIOMATERIAL RESEARCH INTO A MEDICAL DEVICE
Royal College of Ophthalmologists – Glasgow, UK – 20-23 May
Dr Gianpaolo Bruti and Dr Mehri Behbehani will attend the annual congress of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists between May 20-23 in Glasgow. Both will be happy to meet you. More information can be found here
TERMIS EU – Rhodes, Greece – 27-31 May 2019
Marco Thio and Matei Cirstea will attend TERMIS: Tissue Engineering Therapies: From Concept to Clinical Translation & Commercialisation in Rhodes from 27th to 31st May. Marco will be presenting on the industrial perspective of electospinning as a method fr biomaterial manufacture. TERMIS is the most prominent organisation in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative… Read more »
SAWC – San Antonio, TX, USA – 7-11 May 2019
Marco Thio will be at SAWC in San Antionio Texas in May. The all new Symposium on Advanced Wound Care Spring | Wound Healing Society (SAWC Spring | WHS) meeting will feature exciting new cutting-edge topics led by the most dynamic and influential educators in wound healing to further move the wound care community forward, and… Read more »
Successful membrane safety study
A recent publication in British Journal of Ophthalmology by Professor Sheila MacNeil and colleagues at the University of Sheffield and the L.V. Prasad eye clinic in Hyderabad, described how electrospun membranes can be safely applied to rabbit corneas without inducing any local or systemic toxicity. The membranes, made from poly-lactic co-glycolic acid (PLGA) 50:50, were… Read more »
UK Top 10 Healthcare Scale-ups to watch list
The Electrospinning Company has been recognised as one of Britain’s top 10 scale-up companies to watch in healthcare and life sciences, in a list compiled by Capital Cell Investment Manager. More information can be found here.
We’ve moved!
Brand new, purpose-built facilities on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, a rapidly expanding innovation hub near Oxford in the UK. We are moving into our new unit (#5) in the Zephyr Building on 29th October. The 500 square metre unit is fitted out with four Class VII cleanroom modules, facilitating the segregation of R&D… Read more »
EORS – Galway, Ireland – 25-28 Sept 2018
The EORS 2018 meeting will be held in Galway, Ireland. Ann Kramer is speaking on ‘The value of Diversity in growing a company’ in the Female leadership session (25th Sept 18:00-19:30) and Marco Thio is speaking on ‘Electrospinning applications in orthopaedic procedures’ (26th Sept 14:00-15:30. Meet them both at the exhibition booth. The European Orthopaedic Research… Read more »
Expansion of facilities
The Electrospinning Company is fitting out a new facility in the brand new Zephyr building on Harwell Campus, near Oxford, in responding to a growing demand for electrospun biomaterials in regenerative medical devices. The new larger facility will include modular, state-of-the art cleanrooms for manufacturing, a dedicated design and development laboratory and offices. “This expansion will allow… Read more »
IKC/Regener8 – Leeds, UK – 29th June
Rob McKean will attend IKC & Regener8 Annual Conference 2018 Date: June 29, 2018 @ 9:00 AM Location: Leeds The Medical Technologies IKC and Regener8 are back in 2018 to host a one-day conference on 29th June, focussing on best practice in translating regenerative devices – a potential £1bn industry in the UK. The full programme will… Read more »
UCL Innovation Forum – London – 24th April 2018
TECL’s CEO Ann Kramer will be speaking at this year’s Innovation Forum event on Regenerative Medicine. A new era in Regenerative Medicine: accelerating research from bench to bedside. You can register here. About the event Stem Cell Therapies, CAR-T, Cell and Gene Therapies, are the cutting-edge technologies of translational medicine in the 21st century. They… Read more »
