Indiana Start-Up Product Featured On CSI

It’s always exciting as a product developer to have your product hit Hollywood. Years ago, I helped bring to market the cuffed version of the Melker Cricothyrotomy device for Cook Critical Care. The product was once featured on the television show ER.

Pete Kissinger, CEO of Prosolia has provided a guest blog post about his recent brush with television:

Prosolia’s technology for examining substances on surfaces first appeared on CSI Miami and last week (October 8th) moved up (?) to CSI. It is quite interesting watching the way a TV show comes together and how the script writers do their thing, combining a little bit of reality with a larger amount of imagination. Nevertheless, our Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI) products can do what has previously not been possible. We can lift materials off a surface under normal atmospheric conditions (”ambient” conditions) and sweep them into a mass spectrometer for determination of “what and how much.” Prosolia is using DESI to determine explosive residues, detect chemical residues on foods, determine drugs of abuse in urine, image tissue slices and distinguish counterfeit from real drugs. We’re just getting started to develop the technology for pharmaceutical research and diagnostics. - Pete Kissinger