March 8, 2020 – iuvo’s Dr. Mary Richardson and Dr. Kathleen Krenzer, members of iuvo’s Lumino Advisors Consulting Group, guest-taught a class on biocompatibility to a group of biomedical engineers on Friday, March 6. The class was a graduate level class taught by Dr. Greg Gdowski at the University of Rochester’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, […]
January 19, 2020 – The updated version of ISO 10993-18, the standard covering the chemical characterization of the ISO 10993 biocompatibility standard for medical devices, has just published. The new version is available here. The ISO 10993 series applies to devices where the material or medical device has direct or indirect body contact, with ISO 10993-1 […]
September 3, 2019 – iuvo CEO Ben Burton was interviewed on the Legal Drugs Podcast in the most recent episode (episode 5) which became available September 2. The interview took place at the 2019 Society of Toxicology meeting, and provided an opportunity for Ben to speak with Legal Drugs Podcast host Angela Stoyanovitch on testing […]
You are invited to attend the upcoming Society of Toxicology (SOT)-sponsored webinar hosted by Ocular Toxicity and Medical Device/Combination Product Specialty Sections (OTSS and MDCPSS) of the SOT. The details are provided below. Iuvo’s own Dr. Kathleen Krenzer is the President of the Ocular Toxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology.
iuvo will be teaming up with R&Q for a webinar on Biocompatibility: EU MDR and the Changing Regulatory Landscape. The webinar is March 26, 2019, from 1-2pm ET. The slides, webinar recording, and Q&A will be made available to registrants after the webinar. The session will dive into the increased specificity of the EU MDR from […]
On Friday, March 8, 2019, Dr. Mary Richardson and Dr. Kathleen Krenzer from iuvo’s toxicology department lectured and conducted a workshop on ISO-10993 Biocompatibility testing at the University of Rochester. The workshop was conducted for Biomedical engineering students taking a graduate level course on medical devices. The primary goal was to help the students understand […]
March 4, 2019 – Several members of the iuvo BioScience toxicology team co-authored a paper entitled Suitability of Long-Term Frozen Rat Blood Samples for the Interrogation of Pig-a Gene Mutation by Flow Cytometry. The paper was co-authored by Dr. Mary Richardson, Matt Barragato, Brett Schneider and John Prattico of iuvo, along with Avlasevich, et al, […]
October 21, 2017 – Members of the iuvo toxicology team co-authored a paper in the October 2017 issue of Comparative Medicine, the international journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science. The article is entitled “Sequelae of Occult Aggression Disqualifying Young, Socially Housed, Female New Zealand White Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) from Participation in Dermal Toxicology […]
As I begin to isolate single bacterial colonies for mutagenicity testing, I couldn’t help but wonder why the bacterial reverse mutation assay has evaded alternate and new technologies for detecting xenobiotic-induced mutation. Of course there is substantial literature and historical data on the salmonella and e. coli strains in wide use today, and there are […]
