It’s been more than a decade since Lisa Jennings launched not one but two companies in the Great Recession. In 2020, she sold CirQuest Labs to MLM Medical Labs, where Jennings serves as chief scientific officer and managing director of U.S. operations. More recently, her pre-commercial medtech development startup, Ariste Medical, won FDA 510(k) approval for […]
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Scancell picks PharmaJet’s needle-free injection systems to deliver COVID-19 vaccine candidates
PharmaJet announced today that its partner, Scancell, chose its needle-free injection platform to administer its COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Scancell selected Golden, Colorado-based PharmaJet’s devices to administer two SARS-CoV-2 DNA-based vaccine candidates, SCOV1 and SCOV2. The vaccines will be exclusively administered using the PharmaJet Tropis and PharmaJet Stratis needle-free injection systems. According to a news release, […]
Insulet sues Roche over diabetes tech patent
Insulet (NSDQ:PODD) is suing Roche Diabetes Care in the U.K., claiming that Roche prematurely began selling tubeless insulin pumps covered by an Insulet patent three years before that patent expires. The trial for the lawsuit, filed in August 2020, began this week in the U.K. High Court. Insulet claims that Roche has been infringing the […]
Qosina offering SmartSite swabbable needle-free injection sites
Qosina (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) is touting the variety of SmartSite swabbable needle-free injection sites that it offers. The needle-free injection sites feature an ergonomic design and a smooth, flat top that can be easily disinfected, according to Qosina. Said the company: ” These components are equipped with a valve, that when activated, forms an airtight seal […]
Abbott, Tandem seal deal to combine CGM, insulin delivery tech
Abbott (NYSE:ABT) and Tandem Diabetes Care (NSDQ:TNDM) announced today that they have completed their agreement to combine the former’s glucose-sensing technology with the latter’s insulin delivery systems. The deal, announced in October, will combine Abbott’s Freestyle Libre CGM with Tandem’s t:slim X2 pump to monitor glucose without fingersticks. The agreement covers the technical development of device integration […]
BD launches syringe-autoinjector combo
Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) today announced the launch of the BD Intevia 1mL two-step disposable autoinjector, which combines an autoinjector and pre-fillable syringe in one integrated system. BD Intevia disposable autoinjector is a 2-step push-on-skin device that is designed to effectively and safely inject a variety of drugs of different viscosities up to 35cP and different […]
Judge adds $10m in damages in Vectura-GSK patent spat
This article has been updated with a statement from Glaxo Smith Kline. A federal judge in Delaware has awarded British inhaler company Vectura an additional $10.5 million in compensatory damages from Glaxo Smith Kline (NYSE:GSK) in a patent dispute. In May, a jury awarded Vectura $89.7 million in damages for the period from August 2016 […]
Cook Regentec launches blood filtration trial for critical limb ischemia
Cook Medical’s Regentec division today announced the launch of a clinical trial to evaluate its HemaTrate blood filtration system to treat patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) due to peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Indianapolis-based Cook Regentec said the HemaTrate system is designed to produce an autologous, peripheral blood-derived total nucleated cell (TNC) concentrate for intramuscular […]
Cook Medical touts paclitaxel-coated stent PAD study results
Cook Medical today touted five-year data from a study into the use of its Zilver PTX paclitaxel-coated stent for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). The study concluded that there was no increase in long-term all-cause mortality due to paclitaxel after treatment using the Zilver PTX stent compared to traditional angioplasty or a bare-metal stent, according to a […]
Medtronic lands reimbursement for MiniMed 670G pump in Germany
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) said today it has secured reimbursement for its MiniMed 670G insulin pump system from regulators in Germany. The German Federal Association of the Statutory Health Insurances (GKV-SV) granted reimbursement for the smart insulin pump for patients with type 1 diabetes, according to the company. In May, Medtronic released real-world data from more than 8 […]
