We had two excellent interview/meetings today.

First Interview:

We talked to a professor in the life sciences who was very enthusiastic to collaborate with us (he was very pleased to learn that we were not trying to sell him something). He works with heart muscle cells and identified a great need for creating active muscle tissue constructs and had some clear ideas about how our technology could be possibly used to do this. Interestingly, 3D printing may be the only way of doing this as heart muscle cells de-activate when cultured in 2D.

Second Interview:

We talked to a professor in the Physiological Sciences who was also very enthusiastic to collaborate with us. He identified some very interesting and realistic applications for vasculature researches and high throughput screening of bioactive components that would not only showcase the unique technological advantages of our system (ie. no other available system could do it) and is achievable at our current stage of development. He is also the science director of a drug research agency and offered to set up a brain storming session with other professors and drug researchers to help identify potential applications of our technology in drug development.  Awesome!

We will have another interview/meeting with a professor from BRONCH group in the Saint Pail’s Hospital tomorrow.