Steel Prototype Completed! 

Description:

A lot of things in the field of medicine are not efficient. One of which is the current histopathology cassette basket used to process tissue specimens taken from surgery. 

While on a senior pathology elective at Howard University, I came up with, I think, a unique idea to improve the efficiency in loading of these baskets by pathologist and histology technologists alike. This system uses the free resource of gravity to assist in keeping tissue cassettes in place rather than having them slide around much to the chagrin of residents and techs implementing this technique.

While at the University of Utah on a neuroradiology sub-internship, I was given access to the tools necessary to build it. 

Currently in the final stages of the build and writing up the provisional patent. Future plans to launch under WPL Medical (coming soon!).

Updates:

7/11/18 Prototype Completed - Thanks to the folks at the Foundry in Baltimore, MD I was able to complete the first prototype. Now off to writing the provisional patent and testing!

7/11/18 Learning how to Power Coat Paint at the Foundry in Baltimore, MD

7/5/18 Learning how to grind and sand blast at the Foundry in Baltimore, MD

7/2/18 Learning how to MIG weld at the Foundry in Baltimore, MD 

6/25/18 Metal shop clearance course at the Foundry in Baltimore, MD

2/12/2018 Learned plasma cutting and sheet metal techniques at the University of Utah

2/10/2018 Picked up my first sheet of steel!!

2/5/2018 Completed the first mock up in cardboard