Welcome to the DeviceTalks Weekly podcast, a regular – and sometimes irregular – opportunity to visit with the editorial team at MassDevice and Medical Design & Outsourcing. This week, Chris Newmarker, executive editor, life sciences, at WTWH Media, reviews our COVID-19 coverage with Tom Salemi, editorial director, DeviceTalks. Tom also chats with Jeffries analyst Raj […]
CVRx CEO Nadim Yared keeps his edge
CVRx CEO Nadim Yared has emerged as a fearless, outspoken leader in medtech. Tom Salemi, Editorial Director, DeviceTalks Throughout his career, Nadim Yared — the CEO of surging neurostimulation company CVRx — has pushed to assume new responsibilities and duties. However, during one moment in 2006, Yared adamantly refused to discuss leaving Medtronic to become CEO of […]
FDA clearance positions Sight Diagnostics to deliver on two-drop blood testing promise
Today’s news that Sight Diagnostics secured 510(k) clearance for its Olo analyzer certainly will reduce the flow of future patient tears and fears as the system requires just two drops of blood to conduct a range of tests. However, the clearance — which confirms the Olo works just as well as gold-standard lab-grade systems in […]
GenapSys secures $90 million in bid to upend sequencing
Following the raising of a $90 million Series C, privately held GenapSys will begin rolling out a line of low cost electronic-based genetic sequencing machines that it says could upend the research and clinical testing industries. CEO Hesaam Esfandyarpour says the Redwood City, Calif.–based company’s Sequencer, a table-top device that carries a price tag that’s […]