Start-Up News September 2006

In June, Medtech Insight and Windhover Information’s In3 Medical Device Summit in San Francisco—the largest investment and partnering meeting in the medical device industry—showcased some 80 young medical device companies in high-growth segments of the industry across all major clinical segments. Companies unveiled strategies to crack such emerging markets as percutaneous heart valves, noninvasive glucose monitoring, minimally invasive spine, obesity management, cardiovascular imaging, and convergence opportunities for devices and biotherapeutics, to name only a few of the device markets highlighted. Some of these presenters and their technologies are highlighted below.

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is a common consequence of congestive heart failure, and one that contributes to the vicious circle of...