The medtech industry is continuing its massive 2021 boom, with the past week marking yet another record in the markets. MassDevice‘s MedTech 100 Index — which includes stocks of the world’s largest medical device companies — finished last week (Aug. 27) at 121.05 points, representing a 1.2% rise from the 119.63-point mark set a week before. […]
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Encision signs supply agreement with J&J’s Auris Health
Encision today announced that it has entered a supply agreement with Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) robotic surgery subsidiary Auris Health . Through the agreement, Auris Health will buy certain Active Electrode Monitoring technology from Encision. Boulder, Colo.–based Encision will receive an upfront payment and a milestone payment upon certain milestones. The company will also receive revenues from […]
Cutera, Senseonics and more receive Paycheck Protection Program loans
A number of medtech companies announced that they received millions of dollars in loans through the Paycheck Protection Program of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Cutera (NSDQ:CUTR), Senseonics (NYSE:SENS), Viveve Medical (NSDQ:VIVE) and Encision (ECIA:ECIA) received approximately $15 million combined through the program administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration amid the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Vascular Dynamics taps ex-Ellipse Tech CEO Roschak as chief exec | Personnel Moves December 15, 2017
Vascular Dynamics said early this month it tapped former NuVasive Inc. (NSDQ:NUVA) exec and Ellipse Technologies CEO Ed Roschak as its new president and chief executive. Prior to joining Mountain View, Calif.-based Vascular Dynamics, Roschak served as prez and CEO of Ellipse Technologies, which he saw through a $410 million acquisition by NuVasive. He then took up […]
Hook to step down as Integer CEO | Personnel Moves | March 31 , 2017
Integer Holdings (NYSE:ITGR) said this week that current CEO Thomas Hook has stepped down as the company’s president and CEO, effective immediately, with Joseph Dziedzic taking over as interim prez & CEO. Hook will stay on the Frisco, Texas-based company’s board until the company’s 2017 annual meeting of stockholders, but will not seek re-election. Dziedzic is currently a […]