Dashti founded his startup as part of Tulane’s Bioinnovation PhD program, which fosters design and development of innovative biomedical technologies and products and encourages collaboration with healthcare professionals and business and regulatory partners. He and his team have received countless honors, among them the MIT-CHIEF 2018 China Initiative Prize, the 2017 VentureWell ASPIRE Healthcare Award and a Top 15 ranking in the International Rice Business Plan Competition. In 2013, Dashti became the first Tulane National University Innovation Fellow, a prestigious national honor that enabled him to bolster entrepreneurial activity on campus, such as helping students obtain funding for their ideas, devices and designs.

Dashti said he couldn’t have dreamed of a more fulfilling academic experience. “As a biomedical engineer focused on stem cell tissue engineering and regenerative medicine research, the program met my expectations and more as it successfully allowed me to start my company.” As for the future, he said, “I look forward to commercializing this unique technology to have a major impact in the field of regenerative medicine that is expected to accrue over $100 billion by the mid 2020s.”