{"id":102618,"date":"2024-11-14T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T18:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.wisc.edu\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=102618"},"modified":"2024-11-14T12:43:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T18:43:17","slug":"tong-bme-distinguished-entrepreneur-lecture","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/engineering.wisc.edu\/event\/tong-bme-distinguished-entrepreneur-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Tong\u00a0BME\u00a0Distinguished\u00a0Entrepreneur\u00a0Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Erwin Berthier, PhD and Benjamin Casavant, PhD
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Sponsored by Peter and Janet Tong and the Tong Family Foundation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Erwin Berthier and Dr. Benjamin Casavant are the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s 2024 Alumni Early Career Awardees. They are co-founders of Tasso, Inc., which is an emerging healthcare technology company that is transforming the traditional blood collection paradigm with a patient centric approach. Screening participants is a major bottleneck for drug development, often leading to trial delays and high screen failure rates. Tasso revolutionizes the enrollment process by replacing time consuming, labor-intensive clinic visits with convenient, automated prescreening testing at scale through a virtually painless blood draw experience from home. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Tasso is privately held and funded by grants, investments, and co-development deals with various industry leaders. They recently accomplished a huge milestone and shipped their one millionth device. As of December 2022, Tasso completed an oversubscribed $100 million Series B financing round, bringing the total to $131 million.<\/p>\n\n\n

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