Apex Orthopaedic Among Medtech Innovators Selected For NIH-Funded XLerator Network

The nonprofit XLerator Network has announced eight life sciences start-ups, including five medtech concerns, that will benefit from its educational support and other resources. The NIH-funded program is designed to build entrepreneurial skills and promote commercialization of academic technologies in the US Southeast region. 

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Apex Orthopaedic, LLC is among five medtech start-ups chosen for the XLerator Network’s second cohort of university-based innovators as part of a US National Institutes of Health-funded program to build entrepreneurial skills and support commercialization of new medical devices and therapeutics, according to a 13 August release.

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