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Exec Chat: Billy Cohn Talks About His J&J Play In Texas

 
• By David Filmore

The surgeon and serial device inventor has been getting Johnson & Johnson's Center for Device Innovation off the ground this year on the vast Texas Medical Center complex, and he says it's like nothing he has ever experienced.

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J&J's CDI@TMC lab space • Source: Johnson & Johnson

Clinical facilities, doctors and engineers are crucial resources for any surgical medical device start-up pursuing disruptive innovation, and cardiothoracic surgeon and serial entrepreneur William E. "Billy" Cohn says he has them in multitudes in his new gig.

Admittedly, Cohn, who has invented the technology behind six venture-backed startups, is not in a typical start-up situation. In 2016,...

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