About

About Aclara Advanced Materials.

Plum Spun Inc. is a Delaware corporation doing business as Aclara Advanced Materials. Founded to commercialize a photoreactive nanofiber filtration technology invented at George Washington University and UC Riverside, the company has carried the platform from laboratory publication to issued patents, industrial manufacturing, retail distribution, and the doorstep of an FDA submission, with a small core team and a network of institutional partners.

Leadership

The people behind the platform.

Sabrina McCormick, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Sabrina McCormick, PhD

Co-founder · Chief Executive Officer

Formerly tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Doctorate from Brown University, with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. Author of two books and more than fifty-five journal publications, with research support from the CDC, the National Science Foundation, and the EPA, and service as an advisor to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She founded PandemicProof Productions to keep film and television production running safely through the pandemic, and co-founded Aclara with her brother.

Braydon McCormick, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer

Braydon McCormick, PhD

Co-founder · Chief Operating Officer

Co-inventor on the core patent family. He leads the licensing, manufacturing, and regulatory programs, from the university licenses and the Spanish production run to the U.S. reshoring path and the FDA Q-Submission record now supporting the 510(k). Previously founder and CEO of Intempio, LLC, with a sales and operations background across enterprise, technology, and healthcare markets.

The scientists behind the technology, at GWU and UC Riverside, are introduced in Research.

The company

Vital statistics.

Legal entity

Plum Spun Inc., a Delaware C-corporation, d/b/a Aclara Advanced Materials

Founded

To commercialize the GWU/UC Riverside photoreactive nanofiber invention

IP position

U.S. Patent 11,975,221 issued; allowed in Canada; pending in the EU and UK; exclusive worldwide license from GWU and UC Riverside

Manufacturing

Proven at industrial scale (≈117,000 masks, 2022); U.S. media and finished-mask manufacturing path in qualification

Regulatory

Two FDA Q-Submissions completed; 510(k) premarket notification in preparation

Distribution

Consumer retail channel via Shop Vida; bulk organizational supply

Partner institutions

Institutional partners.

Aclara runs with a small core team and does the heavy work through institutional partners. The exclusive license keeps the commercial rights inside the company.

Research & license

George Washington University

Inventor institution and licensor. The technology was invented in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (School of Engineering & Applied Science); its antiviral performance is tested in the Milken Institute School of Public Health's high-containment laboratories.

Research & license

UC Riverside

Co-inventor institution and licensor, central to the early development of the photoreactive nanofiber system.

U.S. manufacturing

MI Technologies

U.S. finished-mask manufacturing partner in the reshored production path, alongside a New Jersey-based advanced-materials manufacturer for the media itself. See Manufacturing.