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Media Advisory 17-008

Emerging biotech with potential to improve US health care on display at 2017 International BIO Convention

20 projects from NSF-supported small businesses feature novel biomedical products, processes and services

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Surgical device

A device from Prescient Surgical that combines self-retaining retraction, barrier-wound protection and continuous wound-edge irrigation could aid in the prevention of wound-edge contamination during abdominal surgical procedures. More than 20 NSF-funded projects will exhibit in a space dedicated to early stage companies with emerging biomedical technologies.

Credit: Jonathan Coe, Prescient Surgical, Inc.


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