Medtronic: Making Convergence Pay

Medtronic has been a pioneer in drug/device convergence: creating products whose therapeutic benefit stems equally from the features of their drug and device components. Convergence represents one of the medical device industry's most promising opportunities. But getting past the cultural differences between medical device and biotech companies can be huge.

By David Cassak

At this year's R&D day at biotech company Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. , held in New York in early December, the surprise hit of the program wasn't one of the...

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