Developer M.A. Mortenson Co. has filed plans for a five-story, 121,295-square-foot Two Discovery Square — the second building for the innovation campus next to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., the Rochester Post Bulletin reports. Mortenson and the Destination Medical Center project office didn’t provide additional details to the newspaper. The original roughly 90,000-square-foot One Discovery […]
Boston Scientific, Mayo Clinic opening an accelerator
Mayo Clinic and Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) announced today that they have forged a partnership to launch an accelerator called Motion Medical. The accelerator is expected to open this fall and serve as a key tenant of the new One Discovery Square near the clinic’s Rochester, Minn. campus. The accelerator includes a commitment in the millions of […]
BioSig lands $1M investment from Mayo Clinic
Cardiac arrhythmia-detection startup BioSig Technologies (NSDQ:BSGM) has received nearly $1 million in financing from the Mayo Clinic after working with the healthcare organization for two years. BioSig recently completed first-in-human studies at the Rochester, Minn.-based clinic aimed at validating the safety and efficacy of its Pure EP system during mapping and ablation procedures in a cardiac EP lab. Patient […]
Royal Philips to open R&D center in Rochester, Minn.
Royal Philips is reportedly moving into a new Rochester, Minn. office space. The Amsterdam-based company plans to open an office in the recently opened Med City, 89,000 sq. ft One Discovery Square complex in Rochester, according to Post Bulletin. Get the full story on our sister site, Medical Design & Outsourcing.
Mayo Clinic, ASU launch new collab MedTech Accelerator
The Mayo Clinic is partnering with Arizona State University to launch a new facility that will feature a MedTech Accelerator, according to an ASU release posted late last week. The new 150,000-square-foot Health Futures Center will contain the incubator, biomedical engineering and informatics research labs, nursing programs and an education zone, according to the report. […]
Medical device cybersecurity: It’s time to get real
Medical device makers, regulators and healthcare delivery organizations are increasingly working together to strengthen cybersecurity. But are they doing enough? Almost no one in the medtech industry disputes the vulnerability posed by cyberattacks. How to go about boosting security is another matter – one on which those stakeholders have recently stepped up their collaboration. One […]
Study shows catheter ablation for Afib significantly boosts quality of life
Patients who had catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (Afib) had fewer symptoms, a significant long-term improvement in quality of life and fewer recurrences and hospitalizations than those who received drug therapy alone, according to a government-funded study. The same study showed that catheter ablation appeared no more effective than drugs in preventing strokes, deaths, and […]
Long-term stroke risk cut by carotid surgery or stenting
An international research team who compared the long-term effects of carotid artery surgery and stenting found the risk of stroke “remarkably low” even 10 years later, regardless of the type of procedure. Short-term stroke prevention was found to be better among surgery patients, but stenting technology has improved since these patients were implanted, said the study’s […]
Quadriplegic Mayo scientist helps advance spine injury tech
A team of researchers at Minnesota’s Mayo clinic, led by an individual who was left with quadriplegia from a teenage injury, are pushing the boundaries of spinal regeneration, according to a new Star Tribune report. The group, led by spinal cord injury researcher Peter Grahn, has published findings from a study that suggests that electrical […]
Neovasc touts Tiara TMVR success rate in study
A small study of the Neovasc (NSDQ:NVCN) Tiara transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) in high-risk patients revealed a 100% procedural success rate and immediate elimination of mitral regurgitation. Published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, the study also showed no death, myocardial infarction, stroke, major bleeding, or access site complications at 30 days. The twelve patients in the study […]
Boston Scientific-backed gBeta accelerator picks 6 new startups
Minneapolis-based, Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) backed medtech accelerator Gener8tor announced six new entrants into its summer gBeta Medtech program last Wednesday, according to a MinneInno report. The gBeta accelerator, which is also supported by the Medical Alley Association, the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic, will host the six companies in a free, seven-week long session. […]
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