Covalent  Bio, LLC was founded by Corey R. Deeken, PhD in 2015, combining the  expertise of several consultants with diverse backgrounds in Biological  and Mechanical Engineering. Areas of expertise include: biomaterials,  hernia repair, product development, orthopaedic biomechanics,  microfluidics, and biosensors.

Dr.  Deeken received her PhD in Biological Engineering from the University  of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) with an emphasis in Biomaterials, and  her graduate research focused on the design and development of novel  biomaterials for soft tissue applications such as hernia repair and  breast reconstruction.  
 

Dr. Deeken spent six years at  Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, Missouri) as  Director of the Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials Laboratory and  Assistant Professor of Surgery.  At Washington University, she continued  her research into the development of novel biomaterials for soft tissue  repair using 3-D printing and electrospinning techniques.  She also  comprehensively characterized the physical and mechanical properties of  over 40 types of hernia repair materials and developed a large animal  model to assess these materials in a functional, in vivo hernia repair environment. 

Dr.  Deeken is an experienced medical and technical writer, having published  over 50 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Annals of Surgery,  Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Journal of  the American College of Surgeons, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,  Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A, Journal of Biomedical  Materials Research: Part B, , Journal of Materials Science: Materials in  Medicine, Surgical Endoscopy, Hernia, and Surgical Innovation.

• Corporate innovation
• Market assessment
• Concept analysis and validation
• Business plan development
• Project management (Agile & Waterfall)
• Product development
• Data analytics/SQL
• Go-to-market strategy
• Strategic partnerships

• Research experience in multiscale structure-function relationships of musculoskeletal soft tissues and joints.  
• Projects  focused on the tissue or joint level, but also seek to  elucidate  multiscale mechanical interactions across various  hierarchical levels of  tissue structure.
• Utilizes  a variety of experimental and computational approaches,  including  efforts based in mechanics, biology, microscopy,  biochemistry, optics,  imaging, and modeling.  

• Diagnostic medical devices
• Biological assay development
• Immunoassay development
• Fluorescence based assays
• Microfluidics 
• Experimental design
• Market analysis
• Project management