BiancaMed
BiancaMed, based in Dublin, Ireland, aims to transform personal health by providing the ultimate convenience in personal health monitoring. At the core of BiancaMed's product platform is a very sensitive motion sensor that Skypedetects heart rate and respiration - without having to touch a person - completely wirelessly. The sensor, combined with the company's sophisticated health analysis software, provides solutions to monitor and to help improve the wellness of sleep, the heart, respiration and fitness. The company's product line, including baby monitors, as well as an array of home health and exercise monitors, will ultimately be provided with the convenience and ease of a mobile phone.

BodyMedia
BodyMedia makes wearable body monitors and software that collect, store, process, and represent accurate and continuous body data such as energy expenditure, activity levels, sleep states and other important physiologic data anywhere and anytime. Such data is central to healthcare research and disease management, and was previously accurately collectable only in laboratory environments. Due to their accuracy, wearability, and affordability, BodyMedia's products and customized software are finding applications in a wide range of markets including self-care weight management, sleep management, industry safety and performance sports.

CardioVasc
CardioVasc has developed a bio-mimetic coating that can be covalently bonded to the surface of insertable medical devices in order to promote a more rapid healing of adjacent cells. The bio-mimetic surface of the company's balloon-expandable cardiovascular implant are coated with sequences of extracellular matrix proteins that have the ability to improve and accelerate the regeneration of the endothelium (i.e., the superficial lining membrane of the blood vessels).

Direct Flow Medical
Direct Flow Medical, based in Santa Rosa, California, is a medical device company developing a percutaneous aortic tissue valve prosthesis to provide patients requiring treatment of cardiac valve insufficiency with a safe and effective percutaneous option. Approximately 1.2 million people over the age of 65 have calcified aoritc valves; yet only an estimated 150,000 are surgically treated each year.

Egeen
Egeen is an emerging biotechnology company with exclusive commercial rights to information from the Estonian Gene Bank. The Estonian Gene Bank is a major national effort sponsored by the Estonian Government with the objective of gathering medical information and samples from a significant portion of the population. EGeen, as the exclusive licensee utilizes this comprehensive database for drug and diagnostic discovery, as well as personalized medicine applications.

iKang
iKang is a first mover in China’s private healthcare management market, providing one-stop full-service healthcare management services. Its services include physical check-up and patient consultation, doctor referral and appointment reservation, disease screening, and personal health profile and management. Using an unique online/offline model, iKang has the potential to rapidly grow into a category dominant leader.

Korea Bone Bank
Korea Bone Bank, based in Seoul Korea, is the largest and only one of the two Korea Food and Drug Administration approved processors of allograft bones and connective tissues for transplantation. The Company uses donated tissue to make bone products for various surgery markets including orthopedic, neurological, oral/maxillofacial, dental, and general clinical markets.

Median
MEDIAN Technologies is at the cross-roads of healthcare and new technologies. MEDIAN develops and sells proprietary medical Computer Aided Detection/Diagnosis (CAD) Applications. The CAD applications are based on the company’s unique 3D medical image analysis platform, CAD-Platform™. The technology platform is derived from more than 10 years of research by some of the most famous medical imaging labs in the world and from 8 years of development performed by HealthCenter Inc. to industrialize, test and validate the technology. It allows the automatic analysis of 3D medical images from a number of modalities including CT, MRI, ultrasound and nuclear medicine. Physicians can extract and quantify information below the level of visual perception for more precise diagnosis, to detect and monitor the progression of various diseases, to allow comparison with population models and to merge information from multiple modalities to better characterize lesions or tumors. (http://www.mediantechnologies.com)

Spinal Modulation, Inc
Spinal Modulation, Inc. is developing next generation Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) technology to treat chronic pain. Menlo Park, CA.

 

SpinX Technologies
SpinX designs and develops products which exploit its innovative programmable micro-fluidics technology. The company's platform offers a fully integrated solution which drastically reduces manual work, while avoiding complex and costly robotics infrastructures, and can be used in a wide variety of applications, from drug discovery to consumer diagnostics.The reduced consumption of samples, reagents and other consumables enables increased throughput and results in significant cost savings. Protocols are coded in the software, allowing maximum flexibility in adapting to specific assays and reagents.

Thermâge
Thermâge is a medical technology company that is developing a radio-frequency-based device designed for the treatment of skin in dermatology and plastic surgery applications. Since its foundation in 1995, Thermâge has built a foundation of patents and technologies based on the premise that radio frequency energy can be used to achieve desired cosmetic and therapeutic effects on the skin.

Trivitron Diagnostics
Trivitron Diagnostics Private Limited, based in Chennai, is engaged in the distribution and value added reselling of health care equipment, medical devices and consumables in India.

Trivitron specializes in a comprehensive range of medical device solutions covering the fields of imaging, cardiology, nephrology, critical care, orthopedics, anesthesiology, intensive care, obstetrics & gynecology, radiology, urology, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, microbiology, biochemistry, hematology, immunology, molecular biology, blood banking, surgery, home care & geriatrics.


Intrapace
Intrapace is a developer of endoscopically implanted gastric pacemakers. These breakthrough devices will dramatically alleviate symptoms associated with gastroparesis, and promote satiation in the treatment of obesity. Gastroparesis, a widely occurring but seldom discussed disease, is the partial paralysis of the stomach muscles that results in a seriously impaired ability to empty the contents of the stomach. The major advantages of an endoscopically implanted device, as opposed to surgery, is that the procedure is less invasive and can be performed in an outpatient setting.

ZARS
ZARS, a leader in the field of non-invasive drug delivery, develops unique products that administer drugs through or into the skin using its patented Controlled Heat-Assisted Drug Delivery technology. The company has formed multiple commercial partnerships, and based on its proprietary technologies, has developed a rich pipeline of potential products. ZARS, with multiple programs in pre-clinical development, believes that its technologies will ultimately enable the successful transdermal delivery of numerous drugs, thereby addressing many important unmet needs in anesthesia, pain, panic attacks, nausea, as well as skin disorders.

Zonare
Zonare is a medical device development company that is pioneering the fabrication of high-quality, hand-held ultrasound products for the medical community. Novasonics' ultrasound products will combine enriched features with innovative ergonomics to achieve revolutionary price versus performance in the global ultrasound market.

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