PCR's Pas de Deux
Executive Summary
As it has for each of the past several years, much of the discussion at this year's Paris Course on Revascularization (PCR) centered on drug-eluting stents. From the latest results of the Taxus and Endeavor clinical trials to reports of the marketplace battle between Cypher and Taxus, drug-eluting stents are dominated by large companies. But we're only at the beginning of drug-eluting stents' technology race, and small companies, with innovative approaches to everything from delivery systems to fundamental biology, will increasingly make their voices heard as new technology comes out of the lab. And they're likely to use collaborations with others, particularly other start-ups, as a means of getting to market faster.
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