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Colleen Costello co-founded Vyv, an antimicrobial light technology provider (formerly Vital Vio), as a biomedical engineering student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) when her grandmother contracted MRSA during a routine hospital stay. Her career has spanned clinical research, engineering, biochemistry and product development. She has held positions in biochemistry research at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College, in surgical device design and pre-clinical studies at Covidien Surgical Devices, and in tissue engineering research at RPI.
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December 14, 2020
A Bright Approach to Infection Control
Investing in new technology—including LED lighting—can keep illness at bayRead More →: A Bright Approach to Infection Control


