Colorado Awards $8.6M in Grants to Startups, featuring Orbit Genomics
Thirty-six Colorado startups secured almost $8.6 million in grants as part of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade’s Advanced Industries Accelerator Program. Read More →
Alleviant Medical Announces Presentation of Clinical Data at American College of Cardiology and EuroPCR Conferences
Alleviant Medical Inc., a privately-held medical device company, today announced one-month and three-month follow up data from the first in human clinical study (ALLEVIATE-HF-1) of its technology for the treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Read More →
This imaging device could be a breakthrough for breast cancer treatment, featuring OncoRes Medical
Having breast surgery to remove a cancerous lump is traumatic enough. Learning that you’ll need another operation to remove cancer cells that the surgeon couldn’t detect the first time only adds to the worry — and the cost. Read More →
Avenda Health’s Male ‘Lumpectomy’ Receives Breakthrough Device Designation
Avenda Health has been awarded Breakthrough Device Designation for a male “lumpectomy” product in development designed to treat prostate cancer in-office while preserving quality of life. Read More →
PolyVascular Awarded $2 Million Small Business Innovation Research Grant to Bring the First Polymer-Based Heart Valve for Children to Clinical Trials
PolyVascular, leading the effort to improve children's lives with a novel polymeric transcatheter valve (PTV) for children, announced that it was awarded a $2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant earlier this year to bring its polymeric stent-mounted valve (SMV) to clinical trials within the next two years in an effort to address pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD), which affects over 1 million patients around the world. Read More →
Bigfoot Scores FDA Clearance for Diabetes Management System
Bigfoot Biomedical is a company that MD+DI readers should be quite familiar with by now. In 2017, the diabetes company was selected as the readers' choice for Medtech Company of the Year. The company is developing products to optimize insulin dosing and provide automated insulin delivery for people with insulin-requiring diabetes. Read More →
Mindera Raises Over $12M Series A-2 Financing
Mindera Corporation today announced a $12.6M Series A-2 capital raise. The round was led by Mountain Group Partners, Rockmont Investments, and Scientific Health Development. Read More →
Nanowear announces commercial distribution partnership in A.I.-based post-surgical recovery monitoring
Nanowear www.nanowearinc.com, the leading nanotechnology and A.I.-based remote diagnostic company, today announced a commercial distribution partnership with a world leading aesthetic and reconstructive surgical device-manufacturer, to enhance and optimize post-surgical recovery for both patients and surgeons. Read More →
FineHeart Breaks New Ground With Successful Removal of the ICOMS FLOWMAKER® in a 90-day In-vivo Trial
FineHeart S.A a preclinical medical device company that has developed the ICOMS FLOWMAKER®, an Implantable Cardiac Output Management System designed to address the unmet need of patients suffering from severe heart failure, today announced the successful, simple, and breakthrough implantation and removal of its device in a 90-day in-vivo trial. Read More →
Bone Health Technologies Closes $2.5M
Bone Health Technologies has closed a $2.5 million funding round and appointed three members to its Board of DIrectors: Karen Drexler; Nancy Lynch, M.D.; and Sam Goldberger, M.D. Read More →