By Houston, for Houston - our grassroots life science innovation community responds to COVID-19

For 8 years, Enventure has been played a key role in inspiring and training the next generation of innovators in the life sciences, including me.

2 weeks ago, Will, Joanna and I created a slack community to collaborate among the engineering efforts for COVID-19. We wanted to be sure that we were building things that were relevant to clinicians and our community, not just building because we felt we had to do something. Since then, we have organized nearly 400 clinicians, regulatory experts, makers, engineers, manufacturers, project managers, fundraisers, communications folks, researchers, and more.

We have curated FDA recommendations about face masks and published those for all makers to review. We have prioritized products that we have verified testing and quality standards based on those recommendations and shared them on our website.

We are working with clinicians and supply chain leaders to understand which products are most needed on the front lines and which are better deployed to our broader community.

We have organized. Now it is time to activate.

We need to activate the manufacturing of PPE products that are being made with guidance from clinicians and verified quality and safety standards. That takes money.

Donate now to help our community help the Texas Medical Center, Houston, and beyond (because Houston means Galveston to College Station, west Katy to Beaumont) to protect our front line clinicians, first responders, essential personnel, food prepares, and citizens.

We will route FDA registered and relevant qualified products to supply chain managers in the Texas Medical Center as well as to individual clinicians as a priority. For those products that the hospitals have already sourced from certified manufactures, we also offer a centralized resource of PPE reviewed for quality and safety as outlined by the FDA and CDC for our broader community.

Money raised will go to pay for the cost of manufacturing (supplies and labor time) so we can donate this PPE to clinics, Houston Food Bank, and more.

Let’s activate now so we can send a big donation to Minute Maid Park for the PPE drive this Wednesday, April 8th for the City of Houston.

The sewing machines, 3D printers, and injection molding processes are ready to deploy.

To donate to this effort, find us here.

To join our effort, find us here or email us at [email protected]