Sequel Med Tech, a Manchester-based company that builds technologies for people with diabetes, also announced this week that Kamen was cleared of any wrongdoing, and would return to its board of directors.
In a statement issued Wednesday, Laurie Leshin, FIRST’s board chair, said Kamen was voluntarily withdrawing from all FIRST activities.
FIRST, the Manchester-based youth science organization founded by New Hampshire inventor Dean Kamen, says it has placed him on leave from “all activities” related to its work, while it reviews recent revelations of Kamen’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
A newly-released photograph shows New Hampshire businessman and inventor Dean Kamen with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as English billionaire Richard Branson outside on what appears to be a beach. The image was part of the latest batch of files published by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Friday, as part of an ongoing inquiry into Epstein.
The next phase of Manchester’s transformation into the nation’s “ReGen Valley” is underway as Kamen, founder of the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI), welcomed city, state, and federal leaders to celebrate the present – and the future.
The event was funded by the Isakovich-Critz Community Enrichment Initiative, the purpose of which is to bring distinguished lecturers, scholars, scientists, mathematicians, writers, and performers to visit Derryfield for school community meetings and classroom visits.
Andrew Yang meets Dean Kamen and gets to test out the iBOT wheelchair.
One small delivery for a robot; one giant leap for the technological future of mankind.
Wednesday morning, Dean Kamen, New Hampshire’s premier inventor and entrepreneur, stood at the podium in front of members and guests of ARMI to introduce them to the its BioFabUSA Spring Summit event to share what the organization is doing in its efforts to transform biotechnology research into practical, large-scale manufacturing of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies to help people around the world.
With a fun and festive theme of gaming, the New Hampshire High Tech Council (NHHTC) held its 13th annual Entrepreneur of the Year recognition Wednesday night in Nashua, giving awards to two Manchester entrepreneurs while high school robotics teams eagerly demonstrated their devices in the lobby.
The House and Senate passed a bill, NH SB 564, to encourage companies that devote at least 75 percent of their activities toward the growth human organs by exempting them from the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax for ten years.