Unilife names Ramin Mojdeh COO | Personnel moves

February 5, 2011 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

Here’s the latest personnel changes from medical device, diagnostics and life science companies around the nation.

Unilife names Ramin Mojdeh COO
Unilife Corp. (NSDQ:UNIS) appointed Ramin Mojdeh, formerly vice president and general manager of Becton Dickinson Pharmaceutical Systems, North America, and Worldwide VP of research and development, BD Medical, as its new COO and executive VP, effective Feb. 7.

Mojdeh comes to Unilife with more than 25 years of business leadership experience across multiple industries, including 18 years in the design, development, manufacturing, sales and marketing of therapeutic and diagnostic medical devices for several multinational companies, including BD (NYSE:BD), GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) and Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) acquisition Guidant Corp.
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Tegra Medical expands management team with addition of as VP
Tegra Medical is pleased to announce that Jim Hillman has joined the company as VP of operations for its two Massachusetts facilities. Hillman is a strong advocate of lean manufacturing principles and brings a solid mixture of metals and plastics manufacturing experience to Tegra. He has led several ISO-registered, multi-site organizations with revenues in excess of $100 million and more than 800 employees. Hillman has managed diverse manufacturing capabilities including Swiss machining, CNC milling and turning, EDM, laser processing, metal stamping, injection molding, cleanroom assembly and packaging and contract sterilization. He has a proven managerial track record building strong organizations, meeting customer requirements and improving operating efficiencies.
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Frazier Healthcare announces growth equity team promotions
Frazier Healthcare, a provider of growth equity and venture capital to high growth and emerging healthcare companies, announced that Brian Morfitt has been promoted to Partner and Ben Magnano has been promoted to Principal, both with the firm’s growth equity team.
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Coghlin Companies appoints Matthew Haggerty as president of DCI Engineering
Coghlin Companies Inc., a privately held firm specializing in engineering design, contract manufacturing, global fulfillment and after market service solutions, announced Matthew Haggerty as the president of DCI Engineering. A subsidiary of Coghlin Companies, DCI Engineering is an industry leader using flexible engagement options to provide companies and entrepreneurs with product to market services from multi-phase product development to controlled engineering production. Prior to joining DCI Engineering, Haggerty founded and led Product Genesis, an innovation and technology product development firm that evolved from the MIT Innovation Center in 1986. Haggerty has also held leadership positions at Altain Avionics, Spirit Activity Corp. and has served as a board member for multiple public and private corporations.
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Zeiss announces organizational changes
Carl Zeiss is pleased to announce the promotion of Daniel McGee to the position of president of Carl Zeiss NTS LLC (formerly Carl Zeiss SMT Inc.). McGee joined Carl Zeiss in July of 2007 as VP of field operations for North America. During McGee’s tenure, the company has focused on building an industry best, world class customer support operation, resulting in record breaking customer satisfaction levels and historic North American market share growth. McGee has over 28 years of professional experience in the semiconductor equipment and analytical instrumentation markets. Prior to joining Carl Zeiss’ Nano Technology Systems division, McGee served as VP/general manager IBM Global Alliance at KLA-Tencor.
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Health Canada implements electronic medical device clinical trial data submission
By Stewart Eisenhart, Emergo Group Health Canada, Canada’s medical device market regulator, has begun accepting some clinical trial-related information from sponsors via electronic submissions. Get the full story here at the Emergo Group’s blog. The opinions expressed in this blog post are the author’s only and do not necessarily reflect those of MedicalDesignandOutsourcing.com or its… […]
This company’s medical containment system played a role in a coronavirus evacuation
The Containerized Bio-Containment System (CBCS), developed by Kansas City-based MRIGlobal, is a first-of-its-kind, flyable medical transport unit and features full biocontainment. This past week, the CBCS was brought into the ongoing worldwide coronavirus outbreak. Get the full story on our WTWH Media sister site R&D World. The post This company’s medical containment system played a […]
Zeiss expands its portfolio of microscope cameras
Zeiss recently announced that it has added four new CMOS cameras for digital imaging in light microscopy. These cameras are part of the Oberkochen, Germany-based company’s Axiocam series. The Axiocam 705 color and 712 color are designed to deliver the best possible image quality for histology, pathology or material research and analysis, thanks to excellent… […]
FDA recommends limiting use of power morcellators
The FDA today recommended that laparoscopic power morcellators, which have been implicated in the spread of cancer, be limited to use with certain tissue containment systems and only in premenopausal women under 50 years of age. Power morcellators were used for 20 years to laparoscopically remove benign tumors of the uterus, known as fibroids, by… […]
Abilitech aims to arm people with independence
Some have dubbed Abilitech’s device “a wheelchair for the arms.” Its machined aluminum exoskeletal arm and breathable cloth vest use a spring counterbalance system and a “living hinge” that spreads the load, making it — and the arm — feel weightless. Nancy Crotti, Managing Editor Rob Wudlick brushed his teeth on his own recently for… […]
RJG Germany opens injection molding training facility
RJG Germany (Karlstein) recently opened a new training lab for injection molding. The facility consists of a classroom that seats up to 20 students and a fully equipped lab for hands-on experience. The technical center currently consists of a 60-ton injection molding machine from Yizumi Germany, temperature control units and a material drying system from… […]
Instron debuts two new universal testing systems
Instron (Norwood, Mass.) announced today that it is introducing a new generation of universal testing systems. The 3400 and 6800 Series are successors to the company’s 3300 and 5900 Series systems and are available in single- and dual-column models with capacities ranging from 500 N to 50 kN. Instron said it has added features and… […]
Medical tubing market to be worth $12 billion in 2025
The medical tubing market is expected to be worth $11.9 billion by 2025, according to an analysis from Grand View Research. Grand View Research suggests the industry will expand at a revenue-based consumer annual growth rate of 9.2% over the next five years. Increased health expenditures from individuals and increased emphasis on healthcare by the […]
How diaphragm pumps can work for sensitive devices
Diaphragm pumps work like bicycle pumps, with one intake and one output cycle per revolution of the drive motor, which produces an inherently pulsatile flow. Dynaflo developed one for the U.S. military that virtually eliminates this effect. Lorenzo Majno, Dynaflo Diaphragm pumps offer a number of features that could be valuable to designers of products… […]
MTD Micro Molding late president to be inducted into Plastics Hall of Fame
MTD Micro Molding this week announced that its late president, Dennis Tully, will be inducted into the Plastics Academy’s Plastics Hall of Fame. Tully is one of this year’s six posthumous inductees, who are elected by living members of the Hall of Fame following a screening process. “These new posthumous inductees proudly represent the length… […]
This neural implant can be both remotely charged and programmed
Engineers at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering are touting the first neural implant capable of being programmed and charged remotely with a magnetic field. Kaiyuan Yang, Jacob Robinson, Zhanghao Yu and Joshua Chen collaborated to develop the integrated MagNI (magnetoelectric neural implant) microsystem, which could allow imbedded devices such as a spinal cord stimulator… […]