Our Story

Our leadership team has decades of combined experience in the fields of blood-brain barrier research, in vitro and clinical studies, engineering, and small business entrepreneurship. we are ready to provide personalized support throughout each phase of your project.

1998

First DIV-BBB and TEER Seattle, WA

2002

NDIV-BBB
Cleveland, OH
First report on the effects of shear stress stress stress

2005

Flocel Inc founded by Rapp, Schmidt, Janigro

2007

First use of human brain resections to study AED and the BBB

2007

Second generation DIV-BBB Second generation TEER

2013

A cerebrovascular model in a box!

2015

Third generation TEER Second generation Flocel Pump

2019

Version 3 of software released Fourth generation TEER

OUR TEAM

Dr. Damir Janigro is the founder, CEO, and CSO of Flocel Inc.; CEO of FloTBI Inc.; From 1999 to 2015 he was Director of Cerebrovascular Research in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; and Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Lerner College of Medicine. He is the inventor of the DIV-BBB, one of the founding blocks of cerebrovascular 3D modeling. Dr. Janigro also pioneered the research on S100B as a marker of BBB function and patented the use of S100B in a POC device to aid the assessment of BBB dysfunction.