Berkeley Applied Science and Engineering, Inc. (BASE) is an engineering consulting and applied research & development firm specializing in Thermal-Fluid/Energy and Smart Material/Composite Structures. BASE specializes in the design and prototyping of new self-expanding nickel-titanium (Nitinol) stents that are optimized for peripheral applications. In the area of drug-eluting stents, BASE has developed a new technology of drug delivery for both coronary and peripheral applications that eliminates the use of polymers as drug carrier.