VenoStent

Summer 2020 · Active

Absorbable wrap for blood vessels

Location: Houston, TX, US

Founded: 2017

Team size: 17

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About

There are 10 million dialysis and bypass surgeries per year, but half of them fail. VenoStent saves lives with a wrap that goes around blood vessels during surgery so they don't fail.

Founders

Tim BoireFounder
President and CEO of VenoStent, Inc. I developed these novel smart polymeric biomaterials for vascular applications during my PhD at Vanderbilt University. Focus of the technology shifted to hemodialysis access applications after participating in the 2014 NSF I-Corps program. BS, Chemical & Biological Engineering and Biotechnology, Tufts University, 2008; PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 2017. Worked in R&D at Genzyme Corporation, 2008 - 2011. Grew up in Nashua, NH.
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Geoffrey LucksFounder
Co-founder & COO of pivotal trial-stage therapeutic medical device company developing bioabsorbable wraps to improve vascular surgery. Vandy MBA, UPenn Masters of Bioethics, UW-Madison UG Interested in tech and culture. Reading: the classics, religion, economics, finance, politics, philosophy, history, social sciences, etc. Born mellow and everywhere harshed.
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