Orthonex: About the
Company
Orthonex LLC is a medical
technology company that is developing innovative technologies for the medical
fields of Orthopedics and Neurosurgery. Orthonex has a growing intellectual
property portfolio that includes new devices and methods for: dynamic stabilization
of the spine; wirelessly-controlled post-surgical skeletal adjustment;
and intra-operative spinal measurement. Orthonex is located in the
Twin Cities area of Minnesota, which is the home of LifeScience Alley and
one of the largest and most dynamic medical technology communities in the
world.
The Orthonex team currently
includes: a practicing neurosurgeon; a university professor with experience
in new product development and medical technology, who served on the Health
Care Technology Decision Sciences Study Section of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, and who has been the Principal Investigator on competitive
federally-funded research grants; and a medical engineer, with a doctorate
from MIT, who is supported by the resources of a leading medical engineering
and prototyping firm. Orthonex's products are not yet approved by the FDA
nor available for patient care.
Orthonex is preparing to
submit a Phase I SBIR grant to the NIH to fund prototyping and benchtesting
of one of Orthonex's devices for dynamic stabilization of the spine. |