By Mary Vanac
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Case Western Reserve University licensed the right to make and sell three types of neuromodulation electrodes and a control unit to Ardiem Medical Inc.
Indiana, Pa.-based Ardiem, which makes implantable medical devices, gets the nonexclusive right to make intramuscular recording and stimulating electrodes, epimysial recording and stimulating electrodes, spiral cuff peripheral nerve electrodes and a universal external control unit developed by the university’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) Center, according to a press release.
Additional details of the agreement were not disclosed.
The Cleveland FES Center, a consortium that includes Ohio’s MetroHealth System and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, as well as Case Western Reserve, is pioneering clinical use of electrical currents to cause paralyzed limbs to stand or grasp, activate body functions such as bladder control or breathing, create the feeling of touch, or stop pain or muscle spasms.
Neuromodulation is one of the fastest-growing areas of medicine, according to Case.
