Resident Companies
Biotech and Life Science Resident Companies:
Armonica Technologies
Victor Esch, President/ CEO
Biophagy, Inc.
Mary J. Ortner, PhD, MBA, President and CEOBiophagy, Inc. is a discovery pharmaceutical company located at The BioScience Center in Albuquerque, NM. Founded by Dr. Stuart Rose in 2012, its corporate mission is to discover drugs that modulate autophagy as part of a specific disease process. In so doing, we hope to relieve patient symptoms or halt disease progression in therapeutic areas with high unmet need. Biophagy is currently developing proprietary drugs for tuberculosis and SARS-CoV-2 (covid-19 virus) plus autophagy-targeted OTC formulations as part of an anti-aging program. The company has had past and current collaborations with Sandia National Laboratories and several laboratories at the University of New Mexico. It has received multiple grant funding from NM Small Business Assistance.
GILZ, LLC
Josh Kefauver, Founder and PresidentGILZ LLC was founded in New Mexico in 2019 to develop effective, novel, and practical personal protective product solutions for residents living in air-polluted environments. The GILZ patent-pending Clean Helmet is a smart helmet that has an integrated air-filtering mechanism allowing the user to breathe clean air without the obstruction of a face mask or respirator. GILZ completed a second round of technical consulting and aerosol testing at Sandia National Laboratories on its Clean Helmet technology. The Clean Helmet showed an average efficiency of 95% for controlling harmful particulates in the air polluted test chamber. In addition to being appropriate for motorcyclists, the system may have firefighting, military, and first-responder application. GILZ is sponsoring UNM senior engineering students to assist with the automated sensor control system and plans to crowdfund the Clean Helmet in Summer 2022.
LifeScience Testing and Analysis
Rebecca Reiss, PHD Owner/ FounderLifeScience Testing and Analysis (Formerly Hexadecaroon Genomics Consulting LLC.) facilitates continued research on environmental microbiomes. Currently they are developing a rapid, reliable, and repeatable assay for virucidal activity using a non-pathogenic bacterial virus that can be used in a Biosafety Level 1 facility. The assay is focused on testing treatments of surfaces and textiles designed to improve the ability of materials to rapidly inactivate virus particles.
Mesa Alta Research, LLC
MARK BRENNEMAN, PHD, CEO/CSOMesa Alta Research was founded to develop new technology supporting cancer diagnostics, specifically the detection of solid tumors through analysis of cell-free DNA and RNA (cfDNA/RNA) they shed into the blood circulation. This is often referred to as “liquid biopsy”, and holds great promise for measuring the response of diagnosed tumors to treatment, in monitoring patients who have completed cancer treatment for possible recurrence, and for sensitive, early detection of new cancers when they are most treatable. Mesa Alta has pioneered a revolutionary new approach to recovery of cfDNA/RNA from blood that dramatically improves specimen yields and quality, to enable the most sensitive blood-based cancer detection possible.
mPower Technology
Murat Okandan
Organizational Rebel® LLC
Barbra J Portzline, PhD, CRP, Founder + CEOWe help business owners close the gap between where their organization is currently, and their vision for it. Our consulting work focuses on building capacity of organization leaders
in 6 key areas: People, Practices, Processes, Promotions, Productivity, and Profit through an innovative, results-based process, grounded in proven methods. 
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Radigan Engineering
William Radigan, PE, CSWE, FounderRadigan Engineering exists to help you solve your most challenging technical problems. As a licensed Professional Engineer and Certified SolidWorks Expert, the chances are good that I can help you model your system, analyze it, and make it work! If you have a great idea and need some help putting together a prototype, that’s my specialty. If you already have your great idea in production but something isn’t working as well as it should, I can help with that too. Together, we make it real.
Rodin Scientific
Ries Robsinson, MD, CEORodin Scientific has integrated technological advances with nuanced physiology to create healthcare solutions that engage heart failure patients, their loved ones and their medical providers in proactive disease management. They are dedicated to improving patient outcomes while decreasing costs to meet the needs of a burdened healthcare system.
Seedcrest, LLC
Shanon Jaramillo, Owner/ CEO
Southwest Medical Ventures
Waneta Tuttle, Ph.D., M.B.A., President & CEOSouthwest Medical Ventures is an entrepreneurial venture development company that creates and builds start-up companies in the life sciences and health care. SWMV companies include Oligocide, PhDx Systems, Exagen Diagnostics, nanoMR, Azano Pharmaceuticals and Agilvax.
TimeLike Systems, LLC
Steve Coy, CEOTimeLike Systems is a small company offering products and services related to computer simulation of complex systems in general, and of advanced optical systems in particular. TimeLike Systems is currently working to develop and commercialize two software tools: TimeLikeTM, a component-based software framework with integrated support for general purpose modeling and simulation, and LightLikeTM, a TimeLike-based tool for high fidelity simulation of advanced optical systems.
VIC Nob Hill Therapeutics
Yun Li, Ph.D CEO
GRADUATE: Aqua Access, LLC
Rodney Herrington, President and FounderAqua Access was founded to develop affordable, reliable and energy efficient technologies to increase water availability worldwide.
GRADUATE: Avisa Pharma™ Inc.
David S. Joseph, President and CEOAvisa Pharma™ Inc. is a clinical stage company developing a proprietary, point of care biomarker BreathTest™ that detects bacterial load, and monitors treatment response of urease producing pathogens in the lungs, rapidly and in real time. These pathogens cause significant morbidity/mortality in patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF), Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) and Tuberculosis (TB).
GRADUATE: BioFlyte, Inc.
Charles Call, CEOBioFlyte is commercializing a revolutionary new class of fieldable mass aerosol mass spectrometers and complementary products for protection from bio-aerosol threats. Our instruments identify microbes including spores, vegetative bacteria, and viruses, bio-toxins, opioids, and other airborne threats to our safety and security. Our products are designed to autonomously sample ambient air, for example, in critical infrastructure, but can also accept liquid or powder samples manually. Out of sight. Ever vigilant.™
GRADUATE: Green Theme Technologies, LLCP
Gary S. Selwyn, CEOGreen Theme Technologies LLC develops and licenses cost-effective and environmentally-safe, natural and synthetic polymer treatments for fabric, plastic, paper and nonwoven materials. These treatments include super-hydrophobicity, anti-microbial properties, safe application of pesticides and insect-repellent chemicals, performance biometrics and medical applications.
GRADUATE: IDS, Inc.
Marcelino Essien, Ph.D., PresidentIDS, Inc. (Integrated Deposition Solutions, Inc.) a small business located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, established in 2013. IDS has licensed an aerosol-based Additive Manufacturing technology from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL License # CO2686; U.S. Patent 6,348,687) and adapted the technology for Direct-Write Electronic (DWE) printing. The aerosol-based technology is called Nanojet (formerly MycroJet).
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Anchor Resident Companies:
Logical Marketing, LLC
Lynore Abbott, FounderLogical Marketing was founded to serve a growing need in technology product companies for a pay-as-you-go Marketing Department. With a broad range of expertise in strategy + tactics + execution, we provide focused, profitable results.
Loza & Loza
Kevin Soules, PartnerKevin Soules, with Loza & Loza, is a registered patent attorney, specializing in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications for complex technology. Kevin has worked closely with clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies to help them develop a robust IP portfolio. Kevin also has experience handling intellectual property litigation.