Matt Cassidy Joins MPR Associates Energy Services Team — MPR Associates, an inter-disciplinary engineering firm founded in 1964, recently added Matt Cassidy to its Energy Services Team. Cassidy has more than 30 years of experience in the design, construction and startup of major domestic and international power plant projects. Cassidy is based in MPR’s Houston office and is available to support MPR team members, customers and strategic partners throughout the world.   [Full Story] ITI and MPR Collaborate to Provide New Product Development Best Practices — MPR Associates and International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) announce a strategic alliance between the organizations. This global collaboration leverages the collective best practices programs and core competence of each to deliver unparalleled product development improvement to clients. MPR’s “First Principles” process defines multi-disciplinary science and engineering challenges into fundamental technical challenges. Once identified, problems are solved individually and the results are synthesized into the final product using a building block approach. ITI’s best practice new product development processes, capabilities, and support systems allow clients to significantly improve product development productivity and time to market.   [Full Story] MPR / BIOSCAN Staying in the Medical Loop — MPR Associates, Inc. and Bioscan have an international patent pending for the design and application of a first-of-a-kind Carbon-11 based radiopharmaceutical synthesis system, the “Auto-Loop”. This system automates the synthesis of injectable radio-labeled compounds used for Positron Emission Tomography (PET), an imaging technique that produces three-dimensional views of the living heart, brain and other body organs. These images assist researchers and doctors in the diagnosis of cancers, certain brain disorders, and heart disease.   [Full Story]