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2025
Henry Cisneros, former Mayor of San Antonio and 10th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Visits VPS Headquarters
Jan 2025
2024
MedTech Malta 2024 - Rafael Veraza Selected as a Featured Speaker
MedTech World - MedTech Malta Conference / Nov 2024
Kristina Andrijauskaite Represents VPS at MPDC Showcase Event as Grant Awardee
The Midwest Pediatric Device Consortium - Showcase Event / Oct 2024
Pediatrics
Innovation Spotlight - Vascular Perfusion Solutions
UCSF - Surgical Innovations / Aug 2024
Pediatrics
Ingenuity at Heart: Research engineer Isabella Cano '22 is helping her company revolutionize organ transplant technology
Sombrilla Magazine - UTSA / Aug 2024
CTIP Accelerator Announces 2024 Winners for Catalyzing Pediatric Innovation Annual Grant Competition
The Consortium for Technology & Innovation in Pediatrics - Aug 2024
Pediatrics
Vascular Perfusion Solutions, Inc. Announces Appointment of Interim Board Chair
GlobeNewswire / Aug 2024
Biofest propels San Antonio's economic growth while transforming global health
News4SA / Apr 2024
“Suspended animation” drug could aid organ transplantation and survival from traumatic injury
Wyss Institute / Feb 2024
UT Health SA The Pipette Gazette / Oct 2019
Pediatrics
2023
Vascular Perfusion Solutions Receives Grant from Southwest-Midwest National Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium To Develop Portable Pediatric Heart Transplant Preservation Device
Business Wire / Dec 2023
Vascular Perfusion Solutions and Unravel Biosciences announce partnership to modulate endothelial activation during heart preservation to improve heart transplant outcomes
Globe Newswire / Nov 2023
ISHLT 2023 Annual Meeting Awards Showcase Advances in Treatment of Advanced Heart and Lung Disease
UTSA Today / June 2023
Winners of 2023 BioFest Invest Event – Vascular Perfusion Solutions
Pat World / May 2023
Featured Interview with The Mullings Group
Joe Mullings of The Mullings Group sits with Rafael J. Veraza, PhD, MPH, CEO of Vascular Perfusion Solutions, to discuss the VP.S ENCORE®
2022
Grad Isabella Cano taps internships to build biomed career
UTSA Today / May 2022
Vascular Perfusion Solutions Collaborates with Wyss Institute and U.S. Air Force to Study Compound to Improve Organ Transplant
Bloomberg Business / April 2022
From the Heart: Texas Organ Sharing Alliance Partnership Makes History
PR Newswire / Feb 2022
Superior Organ Transport Moves Forward
Tech Briefs / Jul 2022
SA medtech taps new CEO to lead $20M fundraising effort
San Antonio Business Journal / Aug 2022
Scientists From The Texas Heart Institute Present Findings at the Gordon Research Conferences
The Texas Heart Institute / Nov 2022
2021
New invention by San Antonio scientist could be a ‘game changer’ in lifesaving heart transplants
San Antonio Express News / Mar 2021
U.S. FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Designation to Vascular Perfusion Solutions for its Visionary VP.S Encore™ Cardiac Transport Device
Business Wire / Feb 2021
2020
'Game-changing' machine keeps human heart beating for 24 hours outside the body
Mirror / Feb 2020
Doctors keep heart beating for 24 hours with new life-changing ULiSSES device
Kids News / Feb 2020
2019
Spinoff company wins Create the Future Design Contest
UT Health SA Newsroom / Dec 2019
Dr. Rafael Veraza was featured in TechBriefs for his work on a self-contained system called ULiSSES™
The ULiSSES™ Device for Organ and Limb Preservation
Tech Briefs / Jul 2019
A Closer Look at ULiSSES, A Device Extending the Life of Organs
Tech Briefs / Oct 2019
Global Design Contest Awards ULiSSES™ Medical Device Grand Prize
Business Wire / Nov 2019