Biomedical Engineering

Developer of new method for treating bone defects wins WPI Entrepreneurship Award

Published in Biotech Law Weekly, July 6th, 2007

The founder of a biomedical company that has developed a polymer technology for treating bone defects has won the 2007 Kalenian Award from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Albert G. Prescott II, a 1990 WPI graduate and president of Crescent Innovations in Worcester, will receive $25,000 to help further development and commercialization of the novel technology.

The Kalenian Award was established in 2006 by Alba Kalenian in memory of her late husband, inventor Aram Kalenian '33. Its purpose is to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship among WPI students, faculty, and alumni by providing seed funds to advance their ideas. Alba Kalenian says her husband believed...

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