On Wednesday, we shared a story with you about a Charleston company that had been awarded a $400,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund patient testing of their 3D imaging technology. Today, we’ll tell you about a Midlands biotechnology company that recently received a $900,000 SBIR Fast-Track grant from the NIH that they hope will lead to the development of better therapeutics. Mike Switzer interviews Andrew Lee, co-founder and chief

For the past year, our next guest says his company has been running at full speed supplying personal protective equipment and disaster related products to all 50 states, including to all the hospital systems in New York City. It has probably helped that they’ve been in the emergency supply business for over 32 years and whose founders had a background in military logistics. Mike Switzer interviews Gordon King, president of ProPac, Inc. in North Charleston, SC.

A Lowcountry company recently earned a rare perfect score from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on its grant application for developing a low-cost, handheld, 3D imaging system which they hope will help prevent cervical cancer. That application resulted in an award of $400,000. Mike Switzer interviews Joe Carson, chief technology director of Pensievision in Charleston, SC.

Long after the pandemic is over, our next guest believes that COVID‐19 will have reshaped the way we approach and plan for retirement. And he says that some changes will be for the best. Mike Switzer interviews Rick Van Der Noord, a certified financial planner in Greer, SC .

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur whose insights are published online at Medium under the title “Control Your Destiny” . He is based in Greenville, S.C.

One of the fastest-growing segments of the office space market over the past several years has been co-work spaces. But then the pandemic hit. And many office spaces became empty as the new norm became working from home and Zoom meetings. Some experts are predicting that this trend is here to stay, even after the pandemic has been stopped. How are co-work companies responding? Mike Switzer interviews Greg Hilton, co-founder of the SOCO co-work centers in Columbia, SC.

Our state is beginning to make a name for itself in advanced materials research. That notoriety was furthered recently by our next guest’s efforts in composites for the automotive industry, which won his organization the 2020 Innovision Technology Integration Award . Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Srikanth Pilla, the Robert Patrick Jenkins endowed professor and Dean’s faculty fellow of automotive engineering at Clemson University . He is also the founding director of Clemson Composites Center and

You may have heard about an acronym Fortune Magazine coined back in 2003 to describe young professionals: HENRYs. High Earners Not Rich Yet. Back in my day the term was Yuppies. But no matter how you refer to them, our next guest says they are facing unique challenges as investors. Mike Switzer interviews Hans Blake, a chartered financial analyst with Intelligent Investing Advisors in Greenville, SC,and a member of the SC Chapter of the CFA Society .

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur whose insights are published online at Medium under the title “Control Your Destiny” . He is based in Greenville, S.C.

If I were to say the words: entrepreneurship, tourism, science, sustainability, innovation, and then ask you for some business examples, how long would I have to wait for you to say “farming”? I’m going to guess that it would probably be awhile. And when we learned about our next guest’s farm, which incorporates all of these and more, we thought you might be interested in learning more, as well. Mike Switzer interviews Rachel McCormick, marketing coordinator at McLeod Farms in McBee, SC.