Startup Companies Identified in September 2006 MedMarkets
Company
Principal(s)
Location
Product/Technology
Founded
AcelRx
Thomas A. Schreck
Portola Valley, CA
Drug-device technology for treatment of breakthrough pain
2006
Amaranth Medical, Inc.
Guy Heathers, Charter Life Sciences
E. Palo Alto, CA
Bioresorbable drug-eluting stents
2006
Arbel Medical Ltd.
Didier Toubia, CEO
Yoknean, Israel
Cryosurgical ablation technology
2006
CardioInsight Technologies, Inc
Warren Goldenberg, CEO
Cleveland, OH
Electrocardiographic imaging of the heart’s electrical activity
2006
Minos Medical, Inc.
Bradley J. Sharp, CEO
Irvine, CA
Minimally invasive (HIFU) surgical [...]
In the September issue of Diabetes Care, Dr. K. M. Venkat Narayan and colleagues from the CDC’s Division for Diabetes Translation write that by 2050 a full 12% of the U.S. population, or 48.3 million people, will have
diabetes (link). Moreover, if the rate of diabetes in the U.S. population continues to rise, the prevalance by [...]
The use of bioengineered tissues is often considered for organ regeneration and regeneration of other macro structures (ears, pancreas, etc.), but it seems clear from recent research that a wealth of applications of bioengineering will be realized on smaller scales. Why players in the medtech industry should consider this is that some applications have the [...]
