Archive for the ‘Industry News’ Category
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) has entered into a collaboration with Gifu University to promote education and research involving medical technology. Under the agreement, students at Gifu University’s United Graduate School of Drug Discovery and Medical Information Sciences can attend classes taught by PMDA staff and have an ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
EDMA, the European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association, and Eucomed, the European medical technology industry association, will join forces under the umbrella of a European industry federation. EDMA represents national associations and major companies engaged in the research, development, manufacture or distribution of In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) tests in Europe. Combining their ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
Last week, UBM Canon Director of Content Richard Nass blogged about his conversation with eZassi CEO Peter von Dyck. The conversation focused on how US venture capitalists are increasingly endorsing launching medtech products in Europe before launching in the United States. The reason is that European companies usually require less ...
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Germany has a new medical cluster. The scientific institute for innovation and consulting Senetics Dr. Wolfgang Sening has established a new network for medtech suppliers in cooperation with the Innovationsoffensive Ostbayern (IOO) of the IHK Oberfranken Bayreuth, Germany. The "Netzwerk für innovative Zulieferer in der Medizintechnik - NeZuMed" (network for innovative suppliers to ...
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Last week, a blog post on DeviceTalk discussed several recent studies of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices, including one that found that infections are a common result, and can result in high costs and patient mortality.
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Monday, September 5th, 2011
Marshall Manufacturing has announced the repositioning of its precision machining services to accommodate a growing need from medical OEM’s who increasingly outsource engineering and design assistance responsibility as they downsize their in-house engineering departments. Responding to these changes, Marshall Manufacturing has repositioned the company as an integrated precision services provider. ...
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Friday, September 2nd, 2011
The Medtech Investment Day Scandinavia, an event designed to connect medtech ventures and investors, will take place at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm on 8 September 2011. The event provides an opportunity for Scandinavian medtech companies to seek funding from venture capitalists, angel investors, private equity investors and industrial investors. ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Curbing healthcare expenditures while ensuring access to quality care and encouraging innovation is one of the fundamental challenges of our time. How healthcare reforms in Europe and the United States address this challenge and the impact they will have on the medical technology industry is the subject of a report ...
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
The Dutch company SolmateS is developing a piezoelectric deposition machine that will use pulsed laser technology to deposit PbZrTiOx (PZT) thin films on wafers. The system is designed to process customised PZT compositions.
Piezoelectric layers are used in miniaturised systems where precise actuation is needed, for instance in radiofrequency MEMS components and ...
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
Optical broadband monitoring, a new technology to monitor the production process of optical layers, is now available from Berliner Glass. The technology allows the production of very complex layers for reflection, transmission and absorption on optical components.
These complex layers can be used in filters for fluorescence applications, interference filters for ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2011
The German Medical Technology Association BVMed recently released its 2010/2011 annual report on the German medtech sector. In the report's editorial, BVMed Chairman Dr Meinrad Lugan calls for clear perspectives on medical technology innovations. BVMed proposes several initiatives to promote innovation and development, including stronger participation rights in the Joint ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
[caption id="attachment_22410" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="The IVAM medical technology working group meets for the first time."][/caption]
Almost three-quarters of the members of IVAM, an international association of companies and institutes in the field of microtechnology, nanotechnology and advanced materials, are currently active in the medical device technology space. So it should come ...
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