Richard Hines from ESI (Electroformed Stents Inc)  http://www.estent.com/ presented his company's research in for electroformed stents, cylindrical photolithography and porous electroplated layers for elution of drugs or other biological material.

Richard is a retired Honeywell FM&T associate that worked at FM&T for 29 years before retiring early and taking advantage of research he performed for an electroformed stent. He used his own money an resources to file the patent and start his own company, ESI. Since then Richard has accomplished a lot with several other patents for medical devices for treating Aneurysms, and received the Technology of the year award from the Silicon Prairie Technology Association.

The presentation was inspiring for the STEM2 group and shows what can be accomplished in taking the risk of using science, technology, engineering and mathematics in pursuit of one's dream of owning your own company.

The word "stent" is a word used commonly in medicine. It comes from a proper name. Charles Stent invented a device for use in dentistry for creating structure. So any device implanted in the body that becomes embedded in the body tends to be called a "stent."

Rick has a laboratory near the Kansas University Medical in a building owned by Kansas University at 38th and Cambridge. Cambridge is one block west of Stateline road. His laboratory is in the basement level and is accessible from a parking lot located to the south of the building.