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Trista Hamsmith and Melissa Fensterstock: Reese’s Purpose | Bespoke

Antonette Ho2023-06-27T00:37:20-04:00 On this episode of The Bespoke Parenting Podcast, host Julie Gunlock talks to Trista Hamsmith and Melissa Fensterstock about the dangers of button batteries. Trista is the founder of Reese’s Purpose, a non-profit named for Trista’s 18-month-old daughter who died after accidentally swallowing a button battery. Melissa is the CEO of Landsdowne Labs, which is currently developing a safer button battery. Watch now >>

Landsdowne Labs Names Bryan Laulicht CEO

Antonette Ho2023-06-18T19:52:11-04:00The Directors of Landsdowne Labs, LLC, are pleased to announce the appointment of Bryan Laulicht to Chief Executive Officer. Laulicht, a company cofounder, has served as Lansdowne’s Chief Technology Officer since the company’s formation in 2017. He has also co-founded and served in leadership positions at two other companies focused on applying biophysics and bioengineering approaches to fulfilling unmet medical and safety needs. Both of those companies have been acquired for a combined total greater than $500M. Laulicht, who will...

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) Tours Landsdowne Labs

Ziad2022-11-25T13:59:44-05:00“Children swallow button batteries. That’s the reality of our world. Because the batteries become loose from devices, and then can literally burn through the throat of a young child. It happens again and again…[leading to] years of treatment, surgery, and therapy.” So said U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, on an October 7 visit to Landsdowne Labs, at Fairfield University, in Fairfield, CT. Link to video of remarks. Landsdowne has since received a patent for technology that rapidly reduces chemical reactions...

Landsdowne Labs Awarded Patent for Button Battery Coating to Reduce Ingestion Injuries

Ziad2022-11-25T13:59:44-05:00LANDSDOWNE LABS, LLC, has been awarded US patent 11,469,465 B2 for a novel battery coating aimed at preventing small, coin-like “button batteries” from causing bodily injuries when swallowed, the company announced yesterday. Such injuries impact many thousands of individuals each year--the vast majority of them children under age 6, who accidentally swallow batteries used to power consumer devices. “We believe our new battery coating has the potential to reduce serious injuries that impact many thousands of lives,” said Melissa Fensterstock,...

Fairfield startup company works on new technology that deactivates ingested button batteries

Ziad2022-11-25T13:59:44-05:00Landsdowne Labs is developing ChildLok, a technology that will deactivate the battery once swallowed to prevent burns. The company CEO says at least 3,500 button battery ingestion injuries happen in the U.S. each year. Trista Hamsmith, whose 18-month-old Reese Hamsmith died after swallowing one, says she supports this new technology. Read more >>

Landsdowne Labs and CBMM Form International Partnership Aimed at Enhancing Button Battery Safety for Children

Ziad2022-11-25T13:59:44-05:00With reports of a recent sharp rise in child ingestion of button batteries, Landsdowne Labs, LLC, a Fairfield, CT. spinout from the world-renowned Langer Lab at MIT, and CBMM, the global leader in Niobium products, are pleased to announce a partnership to further develop battery technology aimed at preventing severe injury or fatality if button batteries are swallowed. The patent-pending technology, under development by Landsdowne Labs, involves an innovative coating aimed at halting chemical reactions when batteries come into contact...

More kids are going to the ER for swallowing ‘button’ batteries, study finds. Why that’s really dangerous

Ziad2022-11-25T13:59:44-05:00More than 70,000 children in the past decade went to the emergency room for swallowing batteries, a new study found, a stark increase from the previous decade.More than 84% of patients were under 5, and “button” batteries accounted for nearly 85% of the emergency room visits. Three-volt lithium button batteries are among the most dangerous because they have a higher voltage that can cause more damage in a shorter time. They also can get stuck in the throat more easily...

Fairfield startup working on child-safe battery technology

Ziad2022-11-25T13:59:44-05:00Days after the U.S. Senate passed a law aimed at making it harder for children to ingest batteries, a Fairfield-based startup announced it has made serious progress on another way to make batteries safer. Melissa Fensterstock, the CEO of Landsdowne Labs, said her company is developing a coating designed to prevent the child from being burned if the battery is swallowed. “We’re developing a safer battery,” she said. “We’re tackling this problem around button battery ingestion.” Read...

Landsdowne Labs CEO Lauds New “Button Battery” Packaging Law; Anticipates Safer Batteries

Ziad2022-11-25T13:59:44-05:00With the recent passage of “Reese’s Law,” aimed at safer packaging of small button batteries used in millions of electronic devices, “Congress has taken an important step toward protecting thousands of children from ingestion injury and death. The next step may well be to make the batteries themselves less harmful.” So says Melissa Fensterstock, the CEO of Landsdowne Labs, LLC, a Fairfield, CT startup that is developing a battery coating designed to avert potentially dangerous bodily reactions should a battery...

Landsdowne Labs Awarded Competitive NSF Grant to Develop Novel Battery Coating

Ziad2022-11-25T13:59:45-05:00Landsdowne Labs, LLC, a spinout from the laboratories of MIT and Harvard scientists Drs. Robert Langer and Jeffrey Karp, has been awarded a $256,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further develop and design a novel battery coating to help prevent injury and reduce risk to the thousands of children who ingest batteries each year. “Every year, thousands of children swallow 'button batteries' ---small, high density, coinlike batteries increasingly used in consumer devices,” said Melissa Fensterstock, the Landsdowne...