News & Media
Keep up with the latest news about VPS and VP.S ENCORE®.
Research Highlights
Wyss Institute.“Suspended Animation” Drug Could Aid Organ Transplantation and Survival from Traumatic Injury.
(Feb 2024)
Press Releases
2026
Vascular Perfusion Solutions Names Transplant Surgeon and Organ-Recovery Leader Dr. Hassan A. Tetteh as Chairman of the Board
(Jul 2026)
2025
Vascular Perfusion Solutions Announces Collaboration with Wyss Institute at Harvard to Advance Biostasis Compounds for Organ Preservation
(Nov 2025)
Vascular Perfusion Solutions, Inc. (VPS), Together with Collaborators Dr. William Brian Reeves and Dr. Stanton McHardy, Has Been Awarded the 2025 San Antonio Medical Foundation Collaborative Research Grant
(Oct 2025)
VPS CEO Rafael J. Veraza Attends LSI Europe 2025 in London to Join Panel of CEOs and Present VP.S ENCORE® Technology
(Sep 2025)
Henry Cisneros, Former Mayor of San Antonio and 10th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Visits VPS Headquarters
(Jan 2025)
2024
2023
Vascular Perfusion Solutions Receives Grant from Southwest-Midwest National Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium To Develop Portable Pediatric Heart Transplant Preservation Device
(Dec 2023)
Vascular Perfusion Solutions and Unravel Biosciences Announce Partnership to Modulate Endothelial Activation During Heart Preservation to Improve Heart Transplant Outcomes
(Nov 2023)
ISHLT 2023 Annual Meeting Awards Showcase Advances in Treatment of Advanced Heart and Lung Disease
(Jun 2023)
2022
2021
U.S. FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Designation to Vascular Perfusion Solutions for its Visionary VP.S Encore™ Cardiac Transport Device
(Mar 2021)
VPS in the News
2024
Innovation Spotlight – Vascular Perfusion Solutions
(Oct 2024)
Ingenuity at Heart: Research Engineer Isabella Cano ’22 is Helping Her Company Revolutionize Organ Transplant Technology
(Aug 2024)
CTIP Accelerator Announces 2024 Winners for Catalyzing Pediatric Innovation Annual Grant Competition
(Aug 2024)
Biofest Propels San Antonio’s Economic Growth While Transforming Global Health
(Apr 2024)
2023
Winners of 2023 BioFest Invest Event – Vascular Perfusion Solutions
(May 2023)
2022
2021
New Invention by San Antonio Scientist Could Be a ‘Game Changer’ in Lifesaving Heart Transplants
(Mar 2021)
2020
2019
Spinoff Company Wins Create the Future Design Contest
(Dec 2019)
Global Design Contest Awards ULiSSES™ Medical Device Grand Prize
(Nov 2019)
Dr. Rafael Veraza Was Featured in TechBriefs for His Work on a Self-contained System Called ULiSSES™
(Oct 2019)
The ULiSSES™ Device for Organ and Limb Preservation
(Jul 2019)
A Closer Look at ULiSSES, A Device Extending the Life of Organs
(Jul 2019)
UT Health Researchers Develop Device To Extend Life of Donated Organs
(Jul 2019)
Revolutionary Organ Transplant Device Preserves Organs, Limbs for at Least 24 Hours
(Jul 2019)
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