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Acquired by Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Afmedica, Inc. is a drug delivery company formed in
early 2002 to commercialize new technologies that are the derivatives of
the anti-proliferative drug eluting stent successfully commercialized by
Johnson and Johnson in conjunction with the Company’s founders. Afmedica’s
intellectual property platform supports a variety of novel medical uses of
the FDA approved anti-proliferative agent Sirolimus. Afmedica’s first product is a polymer
wrap that focuses on preserving the vascular graft in patients with End
Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) who require a vascular access for chronic
hemodialysis.
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www.brillstreet.com
Brill Street helps client companies fill
short-term, part-time and full-time project needs to address resource
shortages quickly and affordably. Its unique temporary staffing solution
gives businesses with backlogs and long "to do" lists the
opportunity to utilize top college talent, while providing the students
with the experiential learning they crave. The Company’s On-Demand Staffing
service is also ideal for addressing "gaps" in your team, when
you have difficult positions to fill or when you have temporary absences.
In these situations, Brill Streeters come on board to complete projects and
keep bottlenecks from occurring until a position is filled permanently or
absent staff returns.
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www.instadium.com
InStadium,
Inc. is a sports marketing and advertising company providing local and
national brands game-day advertising and promotions within Major League
Baseball and National Football League stadiums. The Company has long term
media rights with 19 MLB (including Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park)
and 7 NFL teams. This base provides a platform that includes 20 of
the top advertising markets in the U.S., including 16 of the Top
25 DMAs.
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www.interradmedical.com
InterRad Medical is developing a proprietary catheter
anchoring device called SecurAcath Catheter Retention System. The SecurAcath
System is a new and unique method for holding catheters in place over and
extended time. Currently, long term use catheters are secured on the
surface of a patient’s skin with sutures or adhesive devices which can lead
to site infection or skin irritation. The SecurAcath System utilizes a very
small anchor that deploys just under the skin to hold a catheter securely
in place.
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MedElute,
Inc.
MedElute,
Inc. is a start-up based in Michigan
that has been granted a paid up license from Angiotech Pharmaceutical, Inc.
as part of the merger transaction between Angiotech and Afmedica, Inc. The license is for rights to a pending
patent (not yet issued) in which claims are made for methods and materials
to treat post surgical adhesions with a highly novel anti-platelet approach.
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http://www.medvantx.com
MedVantx,
Inc. developed and markets an electronic interactive point-of-care system
that facilitates the issuance of generic drug and OTC samples by
physicians.
The
automated Sample Centertm provides labeling, patient education materials,
HIPPA compliant patient record inputs, and generates utilization and
tracking reports for the physician and insurance companies.
The
Company’s state-of-the art on-line pharmacy, AmeriPharm, along with its
proprietary ValuePointRXtm patient management program,
facilitates the appropriate utilization of generics and OTCs to the benefit
of employers, health insurers, physicians and consumers.
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Acquired by CVS Corporation
www.minuteclinic.com
MinuteClinic, Inc. currently operates eighty-three
mini-clinics in Minneapolis, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Nashville, Columbus,
Atlanta, Seattle, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, Kansas City and Orlando that
provide testing, diagnosis, and prescriptions for common illnesses for $49
per visit on average. The clinics are located in CVS drugstores, CUB
grocery stores, Bartells drugstores, QFC grocery stores, shopping centers
and corporate headquarter/office buildings.
The mission of the company is to offer quality medical service for a
defined set of common ailments to the public on a walk-in basis. Each clinic is staffed by a Nurse
Practitioner or Physicians Assistant that follows a prescribed protocol
established by the Company’s Medical Director. The Company employs doctors in each
market that are on call when the clinics are operational and provide the
regulatory oversight that is required by the various states.
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www.totalsmallbone.com
Small Bone Innovations (SBI) was formed in May 2004 by
Anthony, John and Marc Viscogliosi, the Principals of Viscogliosi Brothers,
LLC. as a broad based small bone and joint company. The Company focuses on internal,
external, trauma and reconstructive orthopedic products that are used in
the upper and lower extremities. The
Company’s products cover orthopedic needs from the fingers to the shoulder
and from the toes to below the knee.
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ValenTx was founded in 2002 to develop a novel medical device for
the treatment of obesity that is an alternative to bariatric surgery
(stomach by-pass). The device is a
plastic gastric by-pass funnel and intestinal tube placed thru an
endoscopic procedure that mimics a radical permanent stomach by-pass.
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