CL Tian - A Better Way to Sterilize

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Finding a less noxious way to sterilize medical devices is the goal of CL Tian, winner as MedTech Innovator '22. She founded Phiex to commercialize a sterilant that allows devices to sterilize themselves in the presence of light. Industry is listening to this compelling founder.

Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.

Highlights:

• Sal Daher Introduces CL Tian
• What Problem Phiex is Solving
• "... The moat is how do you deliver it without using capital equipment, with plastic packaging material as the delivery system, and how do you deliver it when it's activated by light? Our materials, once they see ambient light, start to release a sterilant..."
• "... I don't think I mentioned, but the amount of devices that are sterilized with this cancer-causing technology's half of the industry. That's 20 billion devices in the US a year. There's no alternative for most of those devices…"
• CL Tian's Background
• How CL Tian Came to the Issue of Sterilization
• Message to the Audience

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