History
Cyto Pulse Sciences, Inc. was founded in December 1995
and is incorporated as a regular C corporation in Maryland. The company
is composed of a multidisciplinary staff of engineers and scientists. Cyto
Pulse develops electric field based devices for use in vaccine delivery,
vaccine production, personal vaccine production, gene therapy, and hybridoma
production.
In recent years, there have been great advances in immunotherapy and
gene therapy against such difficult targets as metastatic cancer, genetic
defects, and acute viral infections. In many cases these advances have
relied on the use of DNA and RNA. Today there are still no approved clinical
uses of this technology because of the inability to deliver, safely and
effectively, the DNA/RNA into the target cells. Cyto Pulse, a medical
device company, has solved this problem with proprietary technologies
using non-viral electric fields. After extensive preclinical studies
these are now entering several human trials. The principal Cyto Pulse
applications are the production of DNA therapeutic vaccines, delivery
of DNA vaccines, modification of cell genomes to correct genetic defects,
production of hybridoma cell vaccines by fusing immune system cells and tumor
cells, and the production of hybridomas used to produce monoclonal antibodies.
The annual markets for these treatments and vaccines are expected to
be in the billions of dollars per year. The Cyto Pulse expertise and
intellectual property is in waveform generators and electrodes for use
in medicine and bioprocessing.
Management
Cyto Pulse Sciences, Inc. was founded by Richard Walters, MSEE, MBA and Alan King,
DVM, Ph.D. Mr. Walters worked for the Department of Defense for 13 years,
then founded a signal processing company which was eventually acquired
by a NASDAQ company. Dr. King retired as a Lt Col. in the Army from the
Infectious Diseases Branch at WRAIR. His expertise is in immunology and
infectious diseases. Over the years he has spent time conducting infectious
disease research in the Thailand, Peru, and Haiti.
| Derin C. Walters, MBA |
President and CEO |
| John B. Burke, CPA, MBA |
Secretary and CFO |
| Alan D. King, DVM, PhD |
Vice President |
| Anna-Karin Roos, PhD |
Vice President, Corporate Development |
Facility
Cyto Pulse has a new 7000 square foot facility with a large bio laboratory,
R&D electronics laboratory, QSR production facility and 200 square
foot ISO 14644 compliant 'Class 5' clean room with sterilization apparatus.
Cyto Pulse is located in the Cromwell Industrial Park adjacent to BWI
Airport.