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Special Report - Special Report - October 25, 2012
Iasis starts early-stage research on two new products
Spokane company lands grants to test hernia mesh, diabetic wound ointment

By Linn Parish
Of the Journal of Business

Iasis Molecular Sciences founder and CEO David Vachon says the company has received $4.5 million in grants since the company's inception in 2007.
Iasis Molecular Sciences founder and CEO David Vachon says the company has received $4.5 million in grants since the company's inception in 2007.
—Staff photo by Linn Parish
Iasis Molecular Sciences LLC, a Spokane-based pharmaceutical-medical device company, is moving ahead with the early stages of research on two new innovations after landing National Institutes of Health grants worth a total of about $645,000.

The larger of the two grants, a $345,000 award, is for research involved in developing a new antimicrobial hernia repair mesh. The other, at almost $300,000, will be used to develop an ointment to treat diabetic wound infections.

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