{"id":163456,"date":"2020-08-13T07:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T11:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=163456"},"modified":"2020-08-13T07:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T11:23:38","slug":"governor-lamont-lt-governor-bysiewicz-u-s-sen-blumenthal-local-officials-tour-start-company-producing-uconn-made-face-mask-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/08\/governor-lamont-lt-governor-bysiewicz-u-s-sen-blumenthal-local-officials-tour-start-company-producing-uconn-made-face-mask-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Lamont, Lt. Governor Bysiewicz, U.S. Sen. Blumenthal, and Local Officials Tour Start-Up Company Producing UConn-Made Face Mask Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"

On. Aug. 12 Governor Ned Lamont, Lt. Governor Susan\u00a0<\/span>Bysiewicz<\/span>, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, UConn President Tom\u00a0<\/span>Katsouleas,<\/span>\u00a0and state and local officials toured Connecticut Biotech, a new innovative start-up company in South Windsor producing 3D-printed face mask frames.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Under the leadership of UConn Health research team leader Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, UConn developed the technology to create a custom mask frame that makes regular surgical masks more protective and helps to secure filtration.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The concept of using facial-recognition software to pinpoint 3D-printing specifications for custom fitting \u2014 for which UConn submitted a patent application in mid-April \u2014 is among a series of recent efforts by UConn Health\u2019s Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering to address the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Connecticut Biotech has started manufacturing and selling limited 3D-printed mask frames to help refine and improve the manufacturing process for larger scale distribution later this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Also participating in the press conference and tour of Connecticut Biotech\u2019s production line were State Sen. Saud Anwar, state Rep. Tom\u00a0<\/span>Delnicki<\/span>, South Windsor Mayor Andrew\u00a0<\/span>Paterna<\/span>, South Windsor Town Manager Michael Maniscalco, Connecticut Biotech CEO Donald Vaccaro, and frontline UConn John Dempsey Hospital ICU Nurse Kaitie O\u2019Connor.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On. Aug. 12 Governor Ned Lamont, Lt. Governor Susan\u00a0Bysiewicz, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, UConn President Tom\u00a0Katsouleas,\u00a0and state and local officials toured Connecticut Biotech, a new innovative start-up company in South Windsor producing 3D-printed face mask frames developed by UConn Health researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":163426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1873],"class_list":["post-163456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 11:30:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/163426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163456"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=163456"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=163456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}