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French Start-Up Seals Deal For Harvard's Tissue Repair Tech

 
• By Tina Tan

HoliStick Medical has gained a worldwide exclusive license from Harvard University for a catheter-based tool to repair tissue defects in difficult-to-reach organs.  

HoliStick Medical SAS, a new portfolio company of French VC firm Truffle Capital, has secured global exclusive rights to a novel tissue repair technology created by researchers at Harvard University, MIT, Boston Children's Hospital, and Brigham & Women's Hospital.

The licensed technology is a specialized catheter device for minimally invasive repair of holes in heart or tissue defects in...

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