MassMEDIC members Hydrocision, Inc., Insulet Corporation and SuturTek, Inc. will be recipients of the 2006 Medical Design Excellence Awards, sponsored by Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry magazine and Canon Communications. Each organization will be honored at a ceremony on June 7, 2006 at the Medical Design and Manufacturing East Conference in New York City…..Confluent Surgical was named as one of 2005’s “most innovative products” by the FDA for its DuraSeal® dura sealant system…..Cambridge Consultants announced plans to reactivate its spin-out business with the creation of a new venture fund, which should be operational this summer. Over the past twenty-five years, Cambridge Consultants has launched more than twenty companies, several of whom have gone to become listed on the London Stock Exchange….Boston, Massachusetts-based SOLX is due to be acquired by OccuLogix, a Canadian company developing treatments for age-related macular degeneration….ONI Medical Systems recently announced a partnership with health authorities in Denmark to use the company’s extremity MRI units to reduce the wait time for Danish patients seeking an MRI…..Noted local medical device entrepreneur, Jim Nicholson, chairman of MassMEDIC’s Enterprise Development Resource Center, has been named to the Editorial Advisory Board of MX Magazine….Additional copies of MassMEDIC’s Directory of Suppliers to the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry may be obtained by e-mailing your request to info@massmedic.com.

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