Dire Warning From Small-Business Grant Recipient: End Of Program Will ‘Kill’ Medtech Jobs, Companies

The CEO of a medtech firm that has received multiple innovation grants from the US government says small companies like hers would be endangered if the funding disappears.

TubeClear and Maureen Mulvihill, President & CEO of Actuated Medical, Inc
• Source: Actuated Medical

Medtech industry jobs and even entire companies could disappear if the US Congress doesn’t renew the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs before they expire in September, an exec at a 22-employee device company that has received several grants over the last 15 years said.

Actuated Medical president and CEO Maureen Mulvihill, said her company – and other small innovative firms like it – might...

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