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After speaking with Tom regarding my plans for the BioSuit project, I was grateful to hear enthusiasm in his voice as he made some recommendations as to how to proceed with the project. His comments are as follows: March 12, 2002 Analytic Solutions 110 Worden Ave Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Phone: 734-663-2433 Email: TAL@MSEN.COM Mr. Justin Sutton Automated Computer Technology 9594 Main Street Whitmore Lake, MI 48189 734-449-4480 JustinEricSutton@msn.com
Dear Justin, Thanks for talking with me today about your BioSuit project. As I indicated on the phone, I’d be interested in being considered to help design, implement, and test the software required for this project, including the embedded suit code itself, code required for testing, and code to analyze acquired data from the suit. One of my strengths is a comprehensive design approach, which builds highly testable software through “diagnostic visibility” - the opposite of a “black box” situation, and related to how quickly one can isolate and localize a system fault. This shortens the test-fix-retest cycle, and results in a shorter time-to-market with a more thoroughly tested product. I can also help with proposal writing, and translate concepts and language between the scientific, engineering, and marketing domains if needed. Summarizing my major project recommendations: 1) Project Stages. To better manage development and obtain favorable impressions from hard-nosed and frugal funding sources, split the present Biosuit project into progressively risky (to success) stages, as follows: A) Data Collection Suit – This would measure muscle tension at all nodes in the suit, and would implement a good deal of the software and hardware required by the full Biosuit, including that for data acquisition/analysis/processing, some executive control and initialization, within-suit and suit-to-world communications, and some of the testing/support framework. Contacts with the research and clinical community would have to be made to identify a commercial or research need for the real-time, whole body muscle feedback measurement this suit would provide. The suit’s passive nature would most likely put it below FDA requirements, allowing for much lower cost and faster prototyping and development. B) Muscle Exercise And Feedback Suit – This would take the finished Data Collection Suit and add muscle stimulation, for alleviation of muscle atrophy. New funding sources, and research and commercial contacts would potentially be necessary to fund this step’s development, and much more expensive testing and documentation to satisfy FDA regulations will need to be implemented. C) Full Biosuit with EM Stimulation – The final and riskiest step. The effect of electromagnetic energy on living tissue, as well as methods to elicit controlled nerve regeneration are currently topics of research and limited clinical trials, and have yet to be understood sufficiently to allow for mainstream clinical or commercial application. (The Purdue research on dogs, e.g., shows only a few modest, statistically significant results compared to controls.) Close collaboration with a senior research scientist will be needed for guidance, access to clinical trials, and to avoid being painted with the “zealot” or “fringe science” brush by funding sources and potential partners for collaboration. This will be the longest and most expensive step, but also of course the most potentially rewarding. 2) Intellectual Property. A brief consult with an intellectual property lawyer, and/or an institution’s Technology Transfer Office before contacting individual scientists about collaboration, may help to avoid problems later. Senior level university scientists often have teams of graduate students able to write software essentially for free (in exchange for course credit or degree). It will be important to protect the product idea (as well as to promote the product as being developed by highly experienced professionals who can assure a good result.) It should be clear to the researcher that it is far better to work with us, than to go it alone with a team of students. 3) Securing Funding. Collaboration with a senior research scientist will be necessary for access to federal, and probably private foundation and venture capital funding sources. 4) Other Contacts. I have some contacts at the UofM Technology Transfer Office, if you’d like to use them to try to find local research partners. Also, you might contact another researcher who has done some work with nerve regeneration via exposure to radio frequency radiation: Betty F. Sisken, Ph.D.Center for Biomedical Engineering
As you requested, I have attached (next page) an entry for your Associates web page. I hope we can work together on this, Justin! Best of luck in your efforts to pull people and funding together. Sincerely, Tom Litow Analytic Solutions 110 Worden Ave Ann Arbor, MI 48103 734-663-2433 TAL@MSEN.COM
Robust Real-Time Embedded Software forDevices and Instrumentation Algorithms, Math Modeling, and Simulations BS, MS/Physics - 22 Years Experience
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