Medtech Insight and Windhover Information's 2006 Investment in Innovation (In3) East: ``A Preview of Early-Stage Medical Technology Companies''; VCs to Share Expertise in Assessing Opportunities.NORWALK, Conn. -- October 18-20, 2006 Westin Copley Place Copley Place is an enclosed shopping mall located in the Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts. It is part of a complex that includes office buildings, two hotels, and a parking garage. , Boston, MA Medtech Insight, a division of Windhover wind·hov·er n. Chiefly British A kestrel. Information, has announced an exciting keynote panel that has been added to the agenda of its Investment in Innovation (In3) East: "A Preview of Early-Stage Medical Technology Companies" event scheduled for Oct. 18-20 in Boston, MA. Several leading venture capitalists will speak on the topic of "Assessing Late-Stage Opportunities." Issues to be covered include assessing late stage opportunities now that investors have to stay with companies longer; what the hot segments are in the medical device industry; how hedge funds are changing the financing environment; how late stage companies are getting their money; and what options are available to those companies. The keynote panel for this discussion includes: --David Milne, Managing Partner, SV Life Science Advisors --Zubeen Shroff n. 1. A banker, or changer of money. , General Partner, Galen Associates --Chinh E. Chu, Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) is a prominent private equity and investment management firm founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman. The company is based in New York City, in River House on Park Avenue at Fifty-first Street, with offices in Atlanta, The discussion will be moderated by David Cassak, Managing Partner of Windhover Information. Windhover is currently accepting registrations for the event, the largest strategic partnering meeting on the East Coast, at http://www.medtechinsight.com/confregister-IN3-18A.html. Reimbursement, IP strategies in the spotlight In addition to the venture capitalist panel discussion, David Gregory David Gregory may refer to:
In3 East will also include a pre-conference panel discussion titled "The Seven Drivers of Value: Optimize Your VC Funding and Exit," hosted by Christopher J.P. Velis, Chairman & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Medical Capital Advisors. Other sessions include: --"IP Due Diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired. Perspective From Both Sides of the Fence" with Michael McGurk and Eric Raciti, patent attorneys for Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner --"Venture Capital Investing in Medical Technology Companies - 2006 State of Affairs" with Allan Ferguson, Senior Partner, 3i For complete information on the keynote speakers and conference agenda, visit http://www.medtechinsight.com/in3-spkr-panel.html. Huge range of technologies to be presented Presenting companies in a wide array of therapeutic areas from around the world, all of them emerging medical technology companies seeking strategic partners and/or investment, will be on hand for the event. More than 50 presenting companies will ultimately be signed up. The forum will provide focused overviews by a senior executive from each company, followed by the opportunity to meet one-on-one in private breakout rooms. The newest presenting companies added to the agenda are: Access Wellness Diagnostic Technologies, Providence, RI (technology description available soon) ACell Inc., Jessup, MD Acellular, naturally occurring, totally reabsorbable scaffold material that serves as a template for tissue remodeling Boston-Haifa Life Sciences Initiative (BHSLI), Boston, MA (technology description available soon) Catheter Exchange, Encino, CA Producer of surgical devices including a self-attaching hernia patch, anti-clog surgical drain, and cavity implosion device CliniSense, Los Gatos, CA Programmable time-temperature stability tag for lifetime monitoring of perishable drugs and drug delivery devices Cybernet Medical, Ann Arbor, MI (technology description available soon) Harvest Technologies Corp., Plymouth, MA (technology description available soon) Light Sciences Oncology, Snoqualmie, WA (technology description available soon) PortaScience, Moorestown, NJ Disposable whole blood home monitoring tests for cancer and cardiac patients Sage Medical, Plymouth, MN Endovascular therapy for the treatment of aortic diseases and defects ScyFix, Chanhassen, MN Minimally invasive ophthalmic device therapy for Dry Macular Degeneration and other blindness causing diseases SteadyMed, Jerusalem, Israel Miniature disposable drug delivery pump (PatchPump), based on our eCell technology of expandable electro-chemical cell Vision Solutions Technologies Inc., Rockville, MA Biocellulose technology for the treatment, repair, and replacement of human tissue For a complete list of presenting companies, visit http://www.medtechinsight.com/in3-18.html#presenters. A must-attend event for medtech, investment executives More than 6,100 industry leaders and senior executives from the top medical technology and investment firms have attended a Medtech Insight conference over the past five years. Participating companies send multiple attendees, including presidents, CEOs and partners, as well as VPs/directors of business development, marketing, technology, corporate development, acquisition, and research & development. Windhover's conferences have drawn more than 700 innovative early-stage presenting companies over the past five years, making them the premier investment, partnering and networking events in the medical technology industry. Past attending companies have included 3M, Abbot Laboratories, AG Edwards, AdvaMed, Bayer, Berlin Heart, Boston Scientific The Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) (abbreviated BSC), is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a range of interventional medical specialties, including interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, , Bristol-Myers Squibb Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), colloquially referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical corporation, formed by a 1989 merger between pharmaceutical companies Bristol-Myers Company, founded in 1887 by William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers in Clinton, NY (both were , Cardiovascular Systems Inc., The Cleveland Clinic Cleveland Clinic (formally known as the Cleveland Clinic Foundation) is a multispecialty academic medical center located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Cleveland Clinic was established in 1921 by four physicians for the purpose of providing patient care, research, and medical Foundation, Credit Suisse The Credit Suisse Group (SWX:CSGN, NYSE: CS) is a financial services company, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. It is the second-largest Swiss bank, behind UBS AG. , Cordis, DePuy International, Dow Chemical, DuPont, Eli Lilly Eli Lilly can refer to:
 To comply with Wikipedia's , the introduction of this article needs a complete rewrite. , NASDAQ NASDAQin full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on , Novartis, Procter & Gamble, Roche Diagnostics Roche Diagnostics Division is a subsidiary of Hoffmann-La Roche which manufactures equipment and reagents for research and medical diagnostic applications. Internally, it is organized into six major business areas: Roche Applied Science, Roche Centralized Diagnostics, Roche , Siemans, Smith Barney Smith Barney is a division of Citigroup Global Capital Markets Inc., a global, full-service financial firm, that provides brokerage, investment banking and asset management services to corporations, governments and individuals around the world. , Stanford University, Stryker, and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Co-sponsors for this year's In3 East event include 3i; AdvaMed; Battelle; Business Wire; Factory; Finnegan, Henderson, Farrabow, Garrett & Dunner; Medical Capital Advisors; Medmarc(R); Presscott Associates Ltd.; The Hartford; Ronald Trahan Associates; SterlingTech, Teledyne Microelectronic Technologies; The MedTech Group Inc.; and Underwriters Laboratories Inc. To attend this conference, you may register online at http://www.medtechinsight.com/in3-18, or call 949-219-0150 or 888-290-2225 (toll-free in the U.S.), or e-mail sales@medtechinsight.com. About Medtech Insight Medtech Insight, a division of Windhover Information Inc., is the leading provider of business information and market intelligence for the medical technology marketplace. For more on the company's products and services, please see www.medtechinsight.com. |
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