FOOTHILL RANCH, CA --- During the month of July 2007, newly identified startup companies with the following technologies in development were added to the Medtech Startups Database:

• Laparoscopic surgical instrumentation.
• Drug eluting stents, including for tracheobronchial application for obstruction casued by lung cancer.
• Neuromodulation and neurostimulation devices.
• Micro-catheter based multi-modality device for the revascularization of an occluded vessel in the brain.
• Subdermal cryogenic remodelling of tissues.
• Orthopaedic medical devices for the spine and trauma markets.
• Technologies and products in gastrointestinal medicine, including for treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
• Spin-out company focused on ischemia and anemia.
• Radioactive polymers for brachytherapy in oncology.
• Devices to treat patients with emphysema.
• Vascular technology (including prosthetic valves) and others.
• Instrumentation and devices for use in spine surgery.
• Antimicrobial, antithrombogenic biocompatible coatings.
• Flexible endoscopy as minimally invasive interventional technology.
• Surgical instrument positioning system.
• Microsurgical cutting instruments.
• Spine implant technologies.
• Optical biopsy in oncology.
• Tissue repair using gene therapy, growth factor biology and tissue regeneration for chronic lower extremity ulcers.
• Devices focusing on cardiovascular, metabolic, inflammatory and fibrotic diseases.
• Vascular device technologies.
• Medical device incubator.
• Developing catheter based solutions to address unmet clinical needs.
• Therapeutic contact lenses that deliver medications to the eye.

The Medtech Startups Database is an online, searchable database of startup medtech companies. Currently comprised of over 500 medical technology startup companies recently founded in the U.S. and outside the U.S., the Medtech Startup Companies Database is updated each month with 10 or more companies founded typically within the most recent one year period.  See http://mediligence.com/startups-db.htm.

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