TSRL hired four last year, plans to add more

Therapeutic Systems Research Laboratories, TSRL for short, is a University of Michigan spin-off that’s gaining centrifugal force in Ann Arbor.The company was founded in 1986 and has since grown to 18 people. Of that staff, four were added in the last year. It was enough for the company to double its space on the south side of town.”We’re expanding about 2,000 square feet, half of which is laboratory space,” says Elke Lipka, vice president of business development for TSRL. “We’re at about 4,000 square feet.”TSRL can thank that expansion on double digit growth in research work. It’s enough that company officials expect to add a person or two to the payroll each year for the next five years.TSRL specializes in research and development for oral drug delivery. Specifically it develops ways to enhance the oral absorption of investigational and marketed compunds. It has developed 14 patents that have been granted and another seven that are still pending.Source: Elke Lipka, vice president of business development for TSRLWriter: Jon Zemke