Innovative Surface Technologies, INC. ("ISurTec®") was founded in late 2004 to continue and expand the team's biotechnology and surface chemistry R&D programs. Patrick Guire, Ph.D., and team has developed  this technology at 6 laboratories over approx. 43 years. Dr. Guire Co-Founded SurModics, Inc. in 1979 and worked there for 25 years as V.P./Chief Scientific Officer before his team left SurModics to start ISurTec®. ISurTec®'s mission is to apply available experimental science and technology to financially rewarding solutions for human needs, especially those involving surface modification and light activated bond formation with devices and biomolecules in health care, bioanalytical, and high value industrial products. These technology advances are procured with new inventions and through improvements on current intellectual property in the same and new market areas.