By Deirdre Shesgreen
WASHINGTON—A Westport-based bio-medical company is immersed in an unusual lobbying campaign, trying to sell a high-tech burn remedy to counter-terrorism experts in Washington who decide what to buy for the government’s public-health-emergency stockpile.
But while the product and the company, Advanced BioHealing, with headquarters at 36 Church Lane, may be cutting edge, its Washington strategy is old-school.
To press the company’s case, it has hired a sophisticated public relations firm and a cadre of politically-connected lobbyists—including Matthew Hennessy, a former aide to Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is among several Connecticut legislators urging the government to stockpile the company’s medical cure.
[While its corporate headquarters is in Westport, the company has manufacturing and laboratory space in La Jolla, Calif., and office and laboratory space in Brentwood, Tenn.]
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