Hari Shankar

Mitralign, Inc. operates as a valve repair company that engages in transcatheter annuloplasty system designed to treat both functional tricuspid regurgitation and mitral regurgitation. The Mitralign Percutaneous Annuloplasty System, MPAS, is intended for the treatment of symptomatic functional mitral regurgitation for annular reduction through tissue plication. The company was founded by Paul A. Spence and Richard P. Geoffrion in 2003 and is headquartered in Tewksbury, MA.

FlowMedica, Inc. develops intravascular systems and medical devices. The company's products include Benephit CV, PVSolo, PVMini, and XT Infusion systems. It also develops novel, proprietary, and minimally invasive intravascular systems for implementing Targeted Renal Therapy. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

BioVentures Investors (BioVentures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Peter J. Feinstein and Marc E. Goldberg. The firm is headquartered in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

CoNextions Medical Corp. is a medical technology company, which specializes in tendon repair. Its product CoNextionsTR implant is designed to increase the traditional suture repair strength and to demonstrate a more reproducible implantation. The company was founded by Erik N. Kubiak and Richard J. Linder in 2011 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

OPKO Diagnostics LLC engages in the provision of health services. It develops blood testing devices for use in homes and doctors offices. The company was founded by Vincent Linder, George M. Whitesides, David Steinmiller, and Samuel K. Sia in 2004 and is headquartered in Woburn, MA.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

Wyeth LLC develops, manufactures, and distributes pharmaceuticals and biological substances. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Madison, NJ.

Criticare designs, Inc. manufactures and markets vital signs and gas monitoring instruments and related noninvasive sensors used to monitor patients in many healthcare environments. Their products also provide readings for electrocardiograms and monitor oxygen saturation, carbon dioxide levels, blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and respiration rate. The company also makes reusable pulse oximetry sensors for use with its equipment. Criticare sells its products to hospitals, nursing homes and physician offices in the U.S. and abroad. The firm was founded in 1984 and is located in Waukesha, WI.

IntraPace, Inc. develops systems for the treatment of obesity. These also track patient activity levels, providing an overview of food consumption and exercise trends. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

HydroCision, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets fluid-jet based surgical tools. Its products include spinejet system, spinejet XL, hydrodiscectomy system and allograft system. The company was founded by Kevin P. Staid and Timothy E. Moutafis in 1994 and is headquartered in North Billerica, MA.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Oxford Bioscience Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1992 by Edmund Martin Olivier, Alan G. Walton and Cornelius T. Ryan. The firm is headquartered in Boston.

Autonomic Technologies, Inc. develops and commercializes innovative therapies for the treatment of severe headache. Its product, the ATI Neurostimulation System, is used for the treatment of acute pain of cluster headache. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Part of Charles River Laboratories International, Inc., Cambridge Drug Discovery Holdings Ltd. is a company that researches potential new drugs for the treatment of cancer. The company is based in Cambridge, UK. Cambridge Drug Discovery Holdings was acquired by Charles River Discovery Research Services UK Ltd., part of Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. from November 14, 2005 on June 11, 2001 for $38 million. The British company was founded by Barry Kenny, Jonathan Mark Treherne.

Roche Innovation Center Copenhagen A/S discovers and develops drugs for the treatment of oncology, metabolic diseases, and infectious diseases. The firm manufactures a pipeline of drug candidates that act selectively on disease-related ribonucleic acid to provide patients with novel treatments for both rare and common diseases. It produces pre-clinical and clinical assets for the treatment of a range of diseases including oncology, metabolic diseases, and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Matts Lundwall and Mikael Ørum on January 1, 1998 and is headquartered in Horsholm, Denmark.

Forbion Capital Partners Management Holding BV (Forbion) is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm which was founded by Bart Bergstein. Headquartered in Naarden, the firm specializes in late-stage and early-stage clinical development programs to optimize the commercial potential of their investee company's technologies.