November 2005
Volume 9, Number 11
  Working to make Massachusetts the medical device capital of the world

Proven Process Medical Devices-Results Built In, sponsor of MassMEDIC News

 

Innovative Medical Technologies Debuted, Honored at MedTech Investors Conference

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EDRC Names McNulty “Executive-in-Residence”

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MassMEDIC Welcomes New Members


State House Round-Up
User Fee Tax Credit Moves Forward; Legislative Committee Considers Re-use Legislation

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MassMEDIC Closes 2005 Conference Season with Annual FDA Update

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MassMEDIC’s Special Interest Groups Address Hiring & Firing, Protecting IP and Funding Product Development

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MassMEDIC Notes


Accellent Inc.
announced that it will be acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. for $1.27 billion. The company will continue to maintain its Massachusetts headquarters and to provide manufacturing and design services to medical device manufacturers…..NxStage Medical Inc. has joined the ranks of publicly-traded Massachusetts medical device companies with its October 27 IPO. The company launched its offering with 5,500,000 shares of common stock at a price of $10.00 per share…. Congratulations to ONI Medical Systems, ranked by Inc. Magazine as the 64th “fastest growing private company.” ONI Medical of Wilmington has developed a dedicated purpose MRI system for use in hospitals, imaging centers and orthopedic practices for imaging of the extremities… Richard DeVaul, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer at MassMEDIC member AWare Technologies, Inc., has been named an at-large delegate to the White House Conference on Aging, to be held in Washington, DC, December 11-14. Dr. DeVaul will be one of a select number of technologists advising conference participants on opportunities for leveraging technology to help serve, care and manage the nation's aging population.


MassMEDIC gratefully acknowledges the support of its Premium and Sustaining Members.

Premium Members

Accellent

BD

Cambridge Consultants

Genzyme Corp.


Goodwin Procter, LLP

Haemonetics Corp.

Medtronic

Nova Biomedical Corp.

Philips Medical Systems

Smith & Nephew Endoscopy

TIAX LLC

Sustaining Members

ABIOMED, Inc.

ACMI

Adams Harkness, Inc.

Analogic Corporation

Arrow International, Inc.

Bayer Corporation

Boston Scientific Corporation

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

C.R. Bard, Inc.

Candela Corporation

Codman and Shurtleff, Inc. A Johnson & Johnson Company

Cytyc Corporation

D&R Products Company, Inc.

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Draeger Medical Systems, Inc.

Ernst & Young

Fish & Richardson P.C.

Foley, Hoag LLP

Grant Thornton LLP

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Health Advances, Inc.

Hologic, Inc.

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP

KPMG, LLP

LehmanMillet

LEK Consulting

Massachusetts Technology Collaborative


Medical Device Consultants, Inc.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Morrison Mahoney LLP

Nixon Peabody LLP

Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP

NYPRO, Inc.

Palmer & Dodge, LLP

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Ropes & Gray

Schwartz Communications, Inc.

The Mullings Group

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Wolf Greenfield

ZOLL Medical Corporation



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