Unilife names Ramin Mojdeh COO | Personnel moves

February 5, 2011 By MassDevice staff

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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Switchback Medical adds ‘sandbox approach’ to device testing
Contract manufacturer Switchback Medical (Maple Grove, Minn.) today announced that it has added a new division. Switchback BioSim Innovations offers functional dynamic biosimulator model development, cell culture services and physician training, according to the company. Biosimulator models use animal and human tissue to create functional models, such as a pumping heart with working valves to… […]
Smith College team wins ventilator design challenge
A team of Smith College engineering alumnae, staff and faculty has won the CoVent-19 Challenge to design a rapidly deployable ventilator to address shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in developing countries. A dozen anesthesiology resident physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital kicked off the public challenge April 1, attracting 200 entries. The 30-person team… […]
FDA gives certain device makers more time to add UDIs
The FDA said today that it will grant manufacturers of Class 1 and unclassified medical devices and certain others more time to add unique device identifiers (UDIs) to their products. These companies will now have until Sept. 24, 2022 to comply with the agency’s UDI rule, including standard date formatting, labeling and Global Unique Device… […]
Eurofins launches 10-minute COVID-19 exposure testing device
Eurofins (Paris:ERF.PA) announced today that it launched its rapid point-of-care testing devices to identify past exposure to COVID-19. The serology-based, finger-prick tests detect antibodies with a sensitivity of 94.5% from 19 days following the onset of symptoms, with results coming in just 10 minutes, according to a news release. Get the full story at our sister site,… […]
How is RF technology shaping the future of medtech?
RF technology, including microwaves, isn’t just about wireless communications or military radar these days. Times Microwave Systems experts point out that it is increasingly important when it comes to medtech. Many medical electronics systems such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems for cancer detection rely on RF/microwave technology. Times Microwave Systems (Wallingford, Conn.) is hosting… […]
Medical device litigation and COVID-19: What you need to know
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a new set of medical device litigation challenges — but also a chance for an industry reset. One of Greenberg Traurig’s top medtech litigation lawyers shares her insights. Sara Thompson doesn’t take any guff when she tells people that she defends medical device and pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits. “I say,… […]
Mayo Clinic needed to engineer its way through COVID-19: Here’s what they did.
The health system’s medical and engineering staffs had to devise their own solutions for lab gear, PPE and operating room air decontamination. As COVID-19 settles into several regions of the U.S., healthcare systems that once sat on the sidelines likely will find themselves in the same situation as their counterparts in the Northeast did earlier… […]
Xenco Medical launches porous spinal implant
Xenco Medical this week said it launched its Cancellex porous titanium lumbar interbodies. The injection-molded titanium foam spinal implants are designed to be pre-attached to disposable, composite polymer instruments. They feature interconnected porosity throughout each implant and are designed to promote bone apposition and facilitate vascularization Each implant is sterile packaged and comes pre-attached to… […]
Applied Plastics adds VP of sales
Applied Plastics (Norwood, Mass.) — maker of PTFE-coated products for advanced catheter systems — announced today that Michael Brown has joined the company as VP of sales and marketing. Brown will be responsible for global sales and marketing, including Applied Plastics’ new online store, which offers shipment within the U.S. and Europe. The company recently… […]
Heraeus Medical Components opens new Collaboration Hub outside Minneapolis
Heraeus Medical Components recently announced that it has opened a new nearly 67,000-square-foot Collaboration Hub in the Minneapolis-St. Paul medtech cluster. The Collaboration Hub — a completely new location near the Heraeus’ existing Fridley, Minn. facility — is meant to provide the company’s customers with the opportunity to work on-site with Heraeus Medical component R&D… […]
Pantheon Surgical acquires sacroiliac screw system
Pantheon Surgical recently announced its acquisition of the Topaz/Compressive sacroiliac screw system. Pantheon Surgical acquired the technology from Osseus Fusion Systems, which will continue to distribute the Blue Topaz/Compressive system. Financial terms of the deal were undisclosed. “I’m excited about the transfer acquisition of the Blue Topaz/Compressive system into the Pantheon armamentarium. I look forward… […]