Cagri Savran - One Cell in a Billion

<p>Sal's Investment Syndicate: <a href= "https://www.angelinvestboston.com/our-syndicates">Click to Join</a></p> <p>Sponsored by:</p> <ul> <li>Purdue University entrepreneurship</li> <li>Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish & Richardson</li> </ul> <p>I invested in Savran Tech back in 2017 around the time of the first part of this interview. Recently I sat down with Cagri Savran to review the progress of his remarkable biotech startup in the last four years. Listen to the original interview followed by a recent update.</p> <p>Here is a list of the topics discussed:</p> <ul> <li>Çağrı Savran Bio (Çağrı Is Pronounced Cha-re)</li> <li>Accident that Took Çağrı Savran from Turkey to Indiana</li> <li>Purdue University’s Remarkable Support for the Commercialization of Faculty Inventions</li> <li>Çağrı Savran: “So, when I say "extremely rare," I mean one-in-a-billion rare.”</li> <li>Çağrı Savran: “Our technology can find those five or six or ten cells that are, among about a billion.“</li> <li>“…from a blood sample, you have a glimpse into the tumor without cutting into the person.”</li> <li>The Promise of Monitoring Cancer Treatment with a Blood Draw</li> <li>“The advantage is if you can do this with a blood sample, it gives you a chance to do this test frequently, right?”</li> <li>Applicable to the Prenatal Monitoring of the Fetus</li> <li>Savran’s Tech Is Simple, Fast and Results in High Purity and Yield – 1000 Times Faster than Typical Microfluidic Systems</li> <li>Like Alexander with the Gordian Knot, Savran Has Loosened One Constraint to Great Effect</li> <li>Bigger Scale and Faster Flow Allows the Fast Separation of Rare Cells</li> <li>Device Seems Amenable to Large Scale Usage – Handling Many Patients at the Same Time</li> <li>How the Invention Came About</li> <li>Why Çağrı Savran Founded a Company</li> <li>Purdue’s New Commercialization Policy Played a Big Role in the Decision to Found the Company</li> <li>Why Turbocharging Cell Separation Is So Important</li> <li>Other Use Cases: People Are Always Suggesting New