Commercial Impact

Ventures & Innovation

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Avenda Health

Since the website was set up, I have become a member of the scientific advisory board of Avenda Health, a startup company in Los Angeles, designed to drastically…

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Lumen Therapeutics

Lumen Therapeutics is a privately held, development stage biopharmaceutical company focused on proprietary drugs based on oligo-L-arginine.

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CareDx®, Inc.

Founded in 1999 and now a public company, CareDx seeks to improve the quality of life of organ transplant patients through the use of non-invasive, diagonistic…

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Quanam Medical Corporation (acquired by Boston Scientific)

Founded in 1994, Quanam Medical Corporation developed polymer coated stents used for drug delivery in coronary angioplasty. It was acquired by Boston Scientific in 2001.

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Arterial Vascular Engineering (acquired by Medtronic, Inc.)

Acquired by Medtronic, Inc. in 1998, Arterial Vascular Engineering (AVE) developed coronary stents and balloon angioplasty catheters used to treat coronary artery disease.

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BioCardia®, Inc.

More than 26 million people are living with heart failure worldwide, and between five and six million suffer from heart failure in the United States alone.…

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