In this series, Bisnow highlights people and companies pushing the commercial real estate industry forward in myriad ways. Click here to read Q&As with all the innovators Bisnow has interviewed so far. Not many CEOs of development firms can claim to also be scientific inventors, but Medistar Corp. CEO Monzer Hourani can. With a background in physics, mathematics and engineering, Hourani has worked for decades as a commercial real estate developer specializing in healthcare projects. Over the course of his career, he has also invented proprietary technology to clean up oil spills and a brace system to protect buildings against hurricane-force winds. At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Hourani saw another application for his skills. Suspecting that Covid-19 was primarily an airborne disease, Hourani decided to begin work on a new kind of heated air filtration system that could destroy the virus. “There was no leadership anywhere — only direct and collateral damage from Covid-19,” Hourani told Bisnow. “On March 27, 2020, I asked ‘How can we catch and kill this coronavirus instantly while it is in the air?’ God answered my question with inspiration for the heated filter technology of IVP.” Partnering with multiple academic institutions to develop the technology, Hourani founded Integrated Viral Protection and aggressively began to research, build and test prototypes of IVP. Within five months, Hourani had a product that could eliminate 99.999% of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Read the full story here. | 
