The Reporter: February 1997, Vol.8, No.1
Columbia Innovation Enterprise News

One of the most recent technology transfer agreements negotiated by Columbia Innovation Enterprise was completed late last year. A license agreement signed with Fusion Medical Technologies allows that company to use a product and procedure developed at Columbia for closing surgical wounds. The procedure was invented by former CPMC residents Drs. Lawrence S. Bass, Steven K. Libutti, and Alexander M. Eaton.

Sara A. Gusik, associate director of CIE and the person responsible for negotiating the agreement, says two patents were granted in 1993 and 1994. The patents were on a tissue glue used for bonding separated tissues to enable surgeons to conduct certain types of surgeries without sutures.

Fusion Medical Technologies is a start-up company that also manufactures a lung patch used in some treatments of emphysema. The company will hold the license for the life of the patent.