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History Talisman Limited was founded in 1982 by Paul D. Cumming, Ph.D. Dr. Cumming is President of the company and serves as Principal Investigator on the Small Business Innovation Research grants awarded the company by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). The original purpose of the company was to provide corporate means for completing a NHLBI sponsored study of the Impact of Adenine on Blood Banking at the time when Dr. Cumming was changing employment from Science Applications International Corporation to the American National Red Cross (ANRC). When Dr. Cumming left the ANRC in 1989, he transformed Talisman Ltd. into a systems consulting firm engaged in support work related to litigation, regulatory compliance, blood donor history screening, transmissible disease testing, statistical consulting and database integration.