On May 23, 2011, M2D2 in cooperation with The City of Lowell's Small Business Week UMass announced the preview of the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center's (M2D2) new and exciting Incubator and Office space.
Approximately 200 people came to help us celebrate this exciting time with networking opportunities, light refreshments, reception food and poster previews of Medical Devices and technology of several Medical Device start-up companies that have and are being helped by M2D2.
Some features of the new facility are; it is located in 9000 square feet of space on the 2nd floor of the Wannalancit Mill, 6 wet laboratory suites, two office suites, large office spaces, a board room, reception area as well as a break room and open reception space.
The Presenting Companies were as follows:
5G Medical, Ergonomic Scalpel Handle Design for Accurate Incision, Ray Dunn
Agali Technologies, Wireless Medical Activity Monitor, Remote Activity Monitoring of COPD Patients, Nick Gildred
Aura MedSystems, Photochemical Wound Closure, Mark Peters
CMB Science, Electrospun Silk Material Systems for Wound Healing, Scott Wharram
MedicaMetrix Inc., ProstaGlove, Christopher LaFarge
MoMelan Technologies, A New Paradigm in the Treatment of Aesthetic and Medical Disorders, Samir Sabir
Nano BPS, Optical Fiber Blood Pressure Sensor For Coronary Artery Disease: Blockage Evaluation and Localization, Xingwei Wang
NanoCoeur, The Next-Next-Next Generation of Coronary Stent, John Fontana MD
Orthopedic Load Sensor, Load Sensing Nail for Determining Rates of Fracture Healing, Jack Wixted
Oz Technologies, An Expandable/Contractible Pessary For Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Oz Harmanli
Seign, LLC, Ajjolos - System For Passive Stretching, Larry Casha
Source Production, Brachytherapy Delivery System for Treatment of Lung Cancer, John Munro, III
TheraTorr, Novel Mattress Concept for Pressure Ulcers, Tim Moutafis
UMass Worcester Medical School, US Patent 7,906,076: Method and Apparatus for Biopsy Sample Processing, Andy Fischer
Vasotech, PowerStent® Drug Eluting Stent System, Tim Wu
Vista Scientific, LLC, Topical Ophthalmic Drug Delivery Systems, Charles Leahy
These technologies and more about these companies and products can be found on our Start-up Companies webpage.