In food and beverage production, organic waste is almost always a byproduct. Whether it’s eggshells from a bakery or spent hops from a brewery, the team at Viresco has developed a process that can take that waste and turn it into renewable energy. “11 years ago, when...
(Intern Kalani Wijesinghe) XenaMed is an early stage pharmaceutical research and development company currently working to secure FDA approval for their oral dosage tablet. As the tablet project started to ramp up last winter the XenaMed team was looking forward to...
(Iris Kim (intern), Scottie Deming (intern) and Ross Higgins (COO).) “The mapping of the human genome has irreversibly changed the direction of healthcare,” said COO Ross Higgins. His startup, Phenomix Sciences, develops precision medical solutions for obesity, a...
In August of 2019, the SciTech team was joined by DEED Commissioner Steve Grove and Employment and Training Coordinator Larry Eisenstadt at a site visit with one of SciTech’s employer companies, Innovative Surface Technologies (ISurTec). ISurTec was just wrapping up...
(Intern Lindsey Wood poses with invasive lake weeds.) For the last five years, Fortin Consulting has been monitoring a wetland in Chisholm, Minnesota. It’s just north of Hibbing on 169, and a bit of a haul for this Hamel-based environmental consulting firm. It’s also...
