InnovaPrep will also be exhibiting at the conference located in San Diego, CA, May 9th – 10th

New members from Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri participate in a unique and rigorous year-long business leadership development program focused on accelerating the growth of their companies. Pipeline blends workshop modules, advice from national experts and a deepening of the relationships among new and current Pipeline members.

“This is an exciting year for InnovaPrep, and I’m especially enthusiastic about my participation in the Pipeline program,” said Dave Alburty, one of the founders of InnovaPrep. “We are poised for a quantum leap in company performance, and I believe that working and growing with my fellow Pipeline members and the elite Pipeline network will be key for me to facilitate that.”

Mr. Alburty has over twenty years’ experience in the Aerosol Research Industry. Beginning at Midwest Research Institute (MRI) in Kansas City his work as a staff research scientist centered on aerosol studies in environmental and biodefense applications. After serving fifteen years at MRI, Dave founded an aerosol science and engineering R&D test and evaluation/product development lab in Drexel Missouri. AlburtyLab offers third party validation to developers of many large-scale Homeland Security and Department of Defense projects as well as various commercial products.

Through his work in the biodefense industry, Dave recognized a missing technology between bio-collection and rapid biodetection/identification. That link is the advancement of sample preparation and biological concentration technologies. Through internal research and development projects at AlburtyLab, The InnovaPrep System was developed to fulfill that need. InnovaPrep LLC was subsequently launched in June 2009 as a manufacturer and integrator of biological sampling and concentration systems and solutions.

Pipeline’s entrepreneurs do not just “learn about business.” The aim is to undergo a life altering experience that also changes the direction and trajectory of their company and connects them to lifelong friends and allies. In the process, Pipeline entrepreneurs recognize the power of the network and remain engaged as they start new companies, enter even higher growth issues, become investors and continue as leaders in Pipeline and in their communities.

“Pipeline helps entrepreneurs grow both as business leaders and as community leaders,” said Joni Cobb, Pipeline CEO. “Our members are the next generation of entrepreneurs who are changing industries and driving economic growth in the Region, the United States and the world.”

Pipeline announced the 2013 Class of Entrepreneurial Fellows at its Innovator of the Year awards event on Jan. 24 at The Midland in Kansas City. To learn more about Pipeline and the fellows in the 2013 class, please visit the Pipeline website.

About InnovaPrep

InnovaPrep’s fourteen pending and awarded patents apply to highly efficient collection, recovery, and concentration of biological particles from air, surfaces, and liquids. InnovaPrep’s novel biological particle Wet Foam ElutionTM process underlies many of these patents and enables recovery of particles from filters, membranes, surfaces, and objects. The primary utility for these technologies is to greatly improve the way biological samples, especially those containing pathogenic organisms, are collected and prepared for analysis beyond the state-of-the-art.

About Pipeline

Pipeline is an exclusive community of high-potential entrepreneurial leaders building high-growth companies throughout the Midwest region. Pipeline’s Class of Fellows represent Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. Each year, approximately 10-12 new members are invited to join Pipeline after an extensive selection process. New members participate in a unique and rigorous year-long business leadership development program that blends workshop modules, advice from national experts and a deepening of the relationships among new and current Pipeline members. As keystones of the regional business environment, Pipeline members are creating jobs, investing in their businesses and communities and mentoring the next-generation of business leaders.

For more information about Pipeline, contact Nora Freyman at 913.307.0004 or info@pipelineentrepreneurs.com, or go to www.PipelineEntrepreneurs.com.

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Two topics will be presented:

An Integrated System for Situational Awareness for Biothreats

Rapid Sample Prep and Identification of Pathogens in Water

More powerful, automated sample preparation techniques are needed so problems currently associated with detection of rare biological particles in complex environmental samples can be overcome. Inhibition by environmental debris is a common problem due to the presence of highly-varied, complex mixtures of particle and chemical inhibitors. Ultra-high-throughput sequencing, qPCR, and other rapid detection techniques can also fail due to high levels of background environmental clutter. There is also a significant need to be able to differentiate between detection events that are associated with whole viable cells and those only associated with free DNA or free proteins. For more information see the following presentation by Andy Page:

A  Novel Membrane-Based System for Fractionation and Concentration of Biological Particles from Complex Environmental Matrices.

Multiple products will ultimately be developed from the technology developed under this grant which will involve up to seven partnering companies and research institutions including AlburtyLab, Inc..  The planned system will be an integratable fractionation/concentration system for use as a link between aerosol collectors and identifiers in autonomously operated detection platforms.

“The initial client for this technology will be DHS, but other important opportunities exist within the Department of Defense, EPA, and Health and Human Services” stated Andy Page, President and Chief Technology Officer of InnovaPrep.

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InnovaPrep’s contract # GS-07F-0747X

 InnovaPrep’s eleven pending and awarded patents apply to highly efficient collection, recovery, and concentration of biological particles from air, surfaces, and liquids.   InnovaPrep’s novel biological particle elution process underlies many of these patents and enables recovery of particles from filters, membranes, surfaces, and objects. The primary utility for these technologies is to greatly improve the way biological samples, especially those containing pathogenic organisms, are collected and prepared for analysis beyond the state-of-the-art.  Specifically, these technologies fill a critical void that currently severely limits application of the most advanced biological detection systems to the billions of microbiological tests performed annually.  This advance is 150 years overdue.