Company Profile

Vivo Biosciences Inc (AKA: Diversified Scientific Inc)
Profile last edited on: 2/20/19      CAGE: 45BN3      UEI: SK1FNMRA3497

Business Identifier: Tumor growth and invasion assays, diagnostic platforms, and human biomatrix systems
Year Founded
1994
First Award
1994
Latest Award
2015
Program Status
Inactive (Acquired)
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Location Information

1601 12th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35205
   (205) 930-0001
   contact@vivobiotech.com
   www.vivobiotech.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 07
County: Jefferson

Public Profile

In November 2016, LIfeNet Health acquired the assets of Vivo Biosciences (VBI) is a biotechnology company developing ‘all-human’ bioassay platforms for preclinical research, drug discovery and therapeutics. The company relies on its patented HuBiogel™ technology, which emulates the biology of normal and disease tissues in vitro. A series of 3-D or Mini-tumor bioassay systems are developed for rapid analysis of drug efficacy, toxicity and therapy prediction, the major bottlenecks of current drug development pipelines. The 3D HuBiogel™ Assay Platform is a novel in vitro assay platform that recapitulates human cells in a fully human extracellular matrix. These three dimensional systems provide the drug development industry with a cost efficient assay to identify drug efficacy and toxicity. SBIR involved at same location as Diversified Scientific and with a somewhat diffeence focus from the mid-nineties, shift to entirely NIH work c

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
5-9
Revenue Range
.5M-1M
VC funded?
Yes
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
1-4

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2015 1 NIH $219,812
Project Title: New D Hubiogel Culture System for Cancer Stem Cells Expansion and Analysis
2014 1 NIH $156,981
Project Title: New High Throughput Anti-Tumor Drug Screening System
2014 1 NIH $217,314
Project Title: New Functionally-Graded Biohybrid Vascular Graft
2013 1 NIH $279,406
Project Title: New Patient-Derived Microtumor Culture/Assay System
2013 2 NIH $817,002
Project Title: New in Vitro Human Liver Toxicity Bioassay System

Key People / Management

  Thomas E Gester

  Raj K Singh -- President, CEO, CSO, Board Member

  Gayle K Christopher

  Alan H Dean

  Lawrence DeLucas

  Philip Faris -- Board Member

  Christopher Gayle

  Thomas E Gester

  Ashley Gilbert -- Research Associate

  Lawrence Greer -- Board Member

  David T Hamrick

  Martin M Klinger

  Lee T Martin -- Senior Director, Business Development

  Steven Schmid -- COO

  Yogesh K Vohra