http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2015/02/big_idea_nominee_lowry_curley.html

New Orleans Entrepreneur Week‘s Big Idea 2015 nominee AxoSim Technologies is described as “improving the drug development process of new treatments. Currently, the only data available preclinically relies on either simplistic cell models or animal testing. Employing micro-engineering techniques and novel biomaterials, AxoSim developed a 3D cell-based model that acts and functions like a nerve. This alternative to costly animal testing gives pharmaceutical companies access to high content data faster, earlier and at a lower cost than currently possible. AxoSim’s patent pending core technology was developed in the lab of Dr. Michael J. Moore at Tulane University. Our mission is to assist in the development of safer and more effective drugs, ultimately accelerating medical breakthroughs and improving people’s health.”

• Founders: Lowry Curley
• Co-founder: Michael J. Moore
• Web: axosim.com
• Twitter: @axosim
• Facebook: facebook.com/axosimtech
• Nominated by: JEDCO