Irvine-based medical equipment manufacturer Sayenza Biosciences is raising a $3.5 million seed round to complete product development of its automated fat and stem cell processor. … Prior to Sayenza, [CEO Derek] Banyard was the chief scientist at the Center for Tissue Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. It was during his time at UCI that he learned that fat possessed the same stem cells you’d find in bone marrow. He then partnered with two UCI professors at the time, Jered Haun and Alan Widgerow, to start Sayenza. Read More