December 2005
Volume 9, Number 12
  Working to make Massachusetts the medical device capital of the world

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

 

Annual FDA Update Addresses Device Compliance, Post-Market Surveillance and New Initiatives at the CDRH.

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MassMEDIC to Launch China Initiative in 2006 – Will Exhibit at ChinaMed Show – April 14-17 in Beijing

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MassMEDIC Welcomes New Members


2006 Seminars to Focus on Emerging Trends, Expanding Market Opportunities for MedTech Companies

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Suppliers Directory Published – Links OEMs to World-Class Suppliers

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MassMEDIC’s Special Interest Groups

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MassMEDIC Notes

Angstrom Medica
recently received a 2005 Excellence in Technology Award from Frost & Sullivan for the development of its novel nanocrystalline calcium phosphate technology, NanOss™…. Boston Scientific has granted a $500,000 donation to the University of Minnesota’s Foundation to support a new biomedical engineering fellowship fund. Fellowships from the fund will be granted to top biomedical graduate students, with the hope that the fund will one day be able to support an entire class of first-year graduate students….Aeris Therapeutics announced on December 12 that it had received FDA fast-track designation for its non-invasive treatment for advanced heterogeneous emphysema…Haemonetics chairman Ronald Matricaria donated $5 million to his alma mater, the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. The gift is the largest single donation the college has ever received.


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

Brooks Software

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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