Start-Up Previews
Executive Summary
A preview of the emerging health care companies profiled in the current issue of Start-Up. This month's profile group, "The Drug Delivery Road Gets Tougher," features profiles of ActoGeniX, Atacama Labs, Glide Pharma and Mimetic Solutions. Plus these Start-Ups Across Health Care: Light Dimensions, Relyspa, Stentys and Thrombotargets.
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Light Dimensions Inc.
Might a $200 handheld skin rejuvenation device for home use and sold primarily through a 30-minute infomercial be the key to riches for investors? Light Dimensions' founders and backers hope so. A 2005 entrant into the booming home-use aesthetic device market, Light Dimensions has launched its first product, the LED-based RejuvaWand for minimizing visible signs of aging.
Stentys SAS
The design of currently marketed stents is not optimal in treating stenosis in or next to coronary bifurcations. Stentys, founded by noted cardiologist and entrepreneur Jacques Séguin, MD, PhD, aims to improve on outcomes while keeping things simple. It believes its bifurcation stent will be as easy for cardiologists to use as conventional stents, but that its novel design will provide superior clinical results by enabling full opening and scaffolding of the side branch.
Glide Pharmaceutical Technologies Ltd.
The UK's Glide Pharma has developed a needle-free, solid-dose drug delivery technology that's easy to use and applicable to both small and large molecules. In essence, tiny solid 'rods' of drug are simply pushed through the skin--no sharps, no blistering, and none of the storage issues associated with some liquid-dosed biologicals.