Organizations

Innovating The Life Sciences

The world’s best performing, most reliable cochlear implant systems.

Advion is the partner of choice for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and research customers requiring scientific excellence in their bioanalytical services and microfluidic chemistry systems.

Developing and marketing walk restoration devices for people with lower limb disabilities. The company's flagship ReWalk™ product offers an ambulation alternative to wheelchair users, enabling paralyzed people to stand, walk and even climb stairs.

Battelle is an international science and technology enterprise that explores emerging areas of science, develops and commercializes technology, and manages laboratories for customers.

Through its grants to nonprofit organizations, the Bee Vradenburg Foundation supports a variety of cultural offerings. The foundation also strives to increase awareness and support of the arts community-wide, through presentations to service organizations or groups such as the Chamber of Commerce.

Data acquisition, amplifiers, transducers & electrodes for life sciences.

BioVance Medical LLC is an advisory boutique that helps design, develop, build, and manage life sciences businesses that deliver sustained shareholder value growth

The BME Career Alliance is a non-profit organization that seeks to facilitate interactions between Biomedical Engineering / Bioengineering Programs and industry. We offer companies and research institutions the ability to post internships, co-ops, research opportunities, and jobs. Students and alumni from our member universities have the opportunity to search and apply for these positions. The Alliance also sponsors regional and national career development events bringing together students and faculty with industry and clinical professionals. These are just a few of the benefits that BME Career Alliance offers its members.

BMEplanet - the global bioengineering network

To enhance biomedical engineering collaboration worldwide and to promote and provide international opportunities for BME students.

Helping patients prevail in their fight against serious disease is more than our goal. It’s what energizes us to come to work every day. It’s the foundation of our business strategy.

Cierra, Inc. is developing the PFx™ Closure System, a novel approach for the treatment of Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO). This catheter-based system has for the first time achieved percutaneous PFO closure without leaving behind an implant in the heart.

Commonwealth of Virginia

Advancing Male Reproductive Health Care

Albemarle County, Virginia, home to over 90,400 residents and located approximately 110 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. and 70 miles west of Richmond. Albemarle County is one of the most attractive and desirable locations in Virginia, with excellent school systems, low crime and unemployment rates, and a wide range of cultural, historic and recreational activities which offer unique advantages for thriving businesses and for gracious living.

CW Optics provides specialized services in Optical System/Device Design and Development, Troubleshooting, Modeling and Simulations, CAD Services and Prototype Development

The mission of ECR Pharmaceuticals has been to manufacture primary care products of unexcelled quality and to assure these are available to patients at an affordable price.

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring.  Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards has more than 6,200 employees worldwide, selling medical technologies in nearly 100 countries with 2008 sales of $1.24 billion.

Empirical’s mission is to remotely access the largest number of core physiological variables with the least amount of technology in a way that is fully comfortable, noninvasive, and involves no user interaction.

ESEM's mission brings benefits to medicine, to engineering and hence to the community, by supporting and identifying to medical doctors current and developing engineering contributions and technical developments in medicine; and by identifying for engineers specific medical problems which need to be solved by appropriate technological means.

The FMD team has successfully developed the TWINHEADS® lithotripter , a revolutionary breakthrough in ESWL technology.

It can take years and years - far too long - to get a new medical technology into general use. With something as potentially life-enhancing as focused ultrasound, such a delay is unthinkable. Every day lost translates into death, disability and suffering.

  So, to speed up the process, the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation was founded in October, 2006, as a small, tax-exempt organization. But it has a driving, entrepreneurial spirit, and this mission: to develop new applications for focused ultrasound, and accelerate its worldwide adoption.

It won't be easy. Getting acceptance of any major new therapy is slow, complex, cumbersome. Think of everyone who's involved - doctors, scientists, engineers, manufacturers, the FDA, National Institutes of Health, philanthropies, venture capital, insurance companies…and patients. The Foundation aims to be a catalyst, getting the interested parties working together. With a little help from friends, we can jump-start the process - dramatically sh...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT offers solutions for individual tasks in the areas of Biomedical-/medical engineering, sensor- and measuring technologies, ultrasound technologies, health telematics, biotechnology and biohybrid technology, cryo(bio)technology and nano(bio)technology, environmental control systems, material testing, home systems, air quality control and security systems as well as industrial process automation and in-line/on-line process control.

At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, our interdisciplinary teams of world-renowned scientists and humanitarians work together to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer, HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Our researchers, including three Nobel laureates, bring a relentless pursuit and passion for health, knowledge and hope to their work and the world.

Gene Tools makes Morpholino antisense oligos. We are the sole commercial manufacturer selling research quantities of Morpholinos world-wide.