Public television station channel 25, WNYC in the New York City area, offers programming about people and events in New York City. A half-hour program on Monday evenings called Her Big Idea introduces viewers to four women entrepreneurs in New York City. A recent episode featured a woman who began a construction company; one who started a hydroponic farm in a vacant 2500-square-foot lot; one who started a clothing collection and repurposing company to keep millions of pounds of clothing out of landfills; and Nina Tandon, co-founder and CEO of EpiBone, a biotechnology company “on a mission to use groundbreaking research to transform skeletal repair” by allowing a patient to grow new bone from his/her own cells.
The name EpiBone contains “epi” a Greek preposition with several meanings including “on, upon, after, at.” Epi appears in English words like epitaph, something (written) on a tomb or ephemeral, something that passes after a day or brief time. An eponym puts a name upon a thing, like watt, bloomers, and vulcanization, three words that originate in the names of a Scottish inventor (James Watt), an American woman (Amelia Bloomer), and a Roman god (Vulcan). EpiBone is a big idea coming to life.
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