Our Story

TissueForm supplies natural replacement biomaterials to the next generation of implantable medical devices to positively impact patients suffering from tissue loss due to disease, damage, or aging. We are a biomedical technology company is producing tissue-based, bio-inspired biomaterials to address clinical problems in industries including regenerative medicine and 3D-bioprinting. Our core competency is in the design, development, bioengineering and fabrication of acellular biomaterials composed of natural and cross-linkable tissue components, which are easily delivered and formed to closely mimic natural tissues, and which demonstrate transformative structural, mechanical, cellular response, and healing behavior in the body. TissueForm was born out of the Neu Soft Tissue Bioengineering Lab at CU Boulder.

Using bio-inspired design principles, and advanced tools of biotechnology, TissueForm has developed a platform technology for the biomimicry of body tissues to repair areas of significant tissue loss or injury. The platform material technology is characterized by a unique combination of acellular particles crosslinked to natural biomolecules that provides tissue-specific properties and performance, while also allowing for easy forming and integration upon delivery to the patient, and low-cost fabrication. The acellular materials maintain tissue-specific growth factors which encourage migration and homing of the patient’s own (autologous) stem and primary cells from the surrounding tissue into the acellular material to promote rapid healing and durable repair.

Meet the Team

  • Jeanne Barthold, PhD

    CO-FOUNDER

    Jeanne received her BA majoring in Physics and STS (Science, Technology, and Society) from Colby College (’15) and an MS (’17) and PhD (’20) in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder (with a biomedical focus area). She has business entrepreneurship experience from the Leeds Business School, and led TissueForm’s involvement in the Research-to-Market program (based on NSF I-CORPS), Innosphere incubator, and the Ascent Accelerator. She has additionally been successful and active in commercialization workshops and pitch competitions.

  • Corey Neu, PhD

    CO-FOUNDER

    Corey is a Donnelly Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has a broad research background in biomedical engineering and regenerative (Brown, UC Davis and UC Berkeley, Purdue). He is a world expert in imaging, biomechanics, and tissue engineering approaches for musculoskeletal and cardiac tissues, and is a co-founder and CEO at TissueForm, Inc