{"id":839,"date":"2023-03-29T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=839"},"modified":"2024-05-22T21:05:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T21:05:11","slug":"geniphys-secures-6-million-in-series-a-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/Q1\/geniphys-secures-6-million-in-series-a-funding","title":{"rendered":"GeniPhys secures $6 million in Series A funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GeniPhys, a company founded by Purdue University biomedical engineering professor Sherry Harbin, has raised a $6 million Series A round. The funding will support the launch of the company\u2019s initial product into the market, expand its team, and invest in manufacturing and regulatory capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GeniPhys has developed a polymerizable collagen called Collymer, which can be designed and fabricated into materials with a variety of shapes, architectures and mechanical properties. It addresses unmet needs in markets like wound management, surgical reconstruction, orthopedics, cardiovascular, ENT (ears, nose &amp; throat), and therapeutic cell and drug delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harbin has a joint appointment in the College of Engineering and College of Veterinary Medicine at Purdue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geniphys.com\/uploads\/3\/7\/3\/4\/37348971\/geniphys_a_round_release_final_3-29-23.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More information can be read on the GeniPhysWebsite<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Media are welcome to share, post and publish these stories, photos and videos.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"note\" class=\"post-content__attribution \">\n    <div class=\"columns\"> \n                    <div class=\"column\"> \n                <p class=\"post-content__source\">\n                    <strong>Media contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Steve Martin,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:SGMartin@prf.org\">SGMartin@prf.org<\/a>                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GeniPhys, a company founded by Purdue University biomedical engineering professor Sherry Harbin, has raised a $6 million Series A round. The funding will support the launch of the company\u2019s initial product into the market, expand its team, and invest in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","source-purdue-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}