Paragonix Technologies co-founder, CEO and President Lisa Anderson [Photo courtesy of Paragonix Technologies]
As a complex disease researcher, Lisa Anderson couldn’t believe how crude the packaging was for a donor organ she received while studying type 1 diabetes.“What I was looking at at the time was a pancreas that was stored in a couple of sterile plastic bags filled with a solution, and then literally placed in a cooler filled with crushed ice,” she recalled. “To me, that was a very archaic way of transporting a precious human organ.”
So she called the agency that provided the organ and asked whether next time they could package the pancreas just as they would for a human transplant.
“There was a long pause on the line,…