Starts & Stops compiles all the clinical trial announcements, initiations, completions and suspensions tracked by MedDeviceTracker. This edition covers trial announcements from Feb. 11 through Feb. 24, including announcements from CorMatrix Cardiovascular, Hancock Jaffe Laboratories, Toray Industries, Spectral Medical, GI Dynamics, and Check-Cap.

Recent executive-level company changes and promotions in the biopharma, medical device and diagnostics industries.

Derived from Strategic Transactions, Informa’s premium source for tracking life sciences deal activity, the Medical Device Deals Update column is a survey of recent medtech M&A, alliance, and financing activity. This month’s column covers deals announced January-February 2016.

Prophylix Pharma is set to be the first company to begin clinical trials for a prophylactic for fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia, a rare but serious disorder that can cause serious bleeding in babies' brains. Its candidate, NAITgam, is being developed under the auspices of the PROFNAIT consortium, an innovative collaborative project involving 11 Northern European universities, hospitals, research organizations, companies, and blood banks.