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Apaxis Medical, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Apaxis Medical, Inc.

Address: 3900 Essex Lane Suite 250 Houston, TX 77027 USA
Contact: John Osborne
Phone: (713) 966-5829
URL: www.apaxismedical.com
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Description: Apaxis Medical, Inc (Apaxis) is a Houston-based cardiovascular medical device company developing a surgical system that allows mechanical circulatory support devices and heart valves to be implanted without the need for cardiopulmonary bypass.
   

Applied BioKinetics LLC

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Address: 1211 Nagle Street Houston, TX 77003 USA
Contact: Donald Bushby
Phone: (713) 299-7263
Email:
Description: Applied Biokinetics, LLC is commercializing disposable adhesive orthotic device for plantar fasciitis, and associated intellectual property regarding device, and methods. Business strategy is Web based sales, clinical validation (2010), company expansion or position for acquisition (2011). First orthotic device has been produced by an FDA cleared manufacturer and company is working toward executing clinical trials and accomplishing medical device Class I clearance. Value proposition is to [More...]
   

Aptia Systems, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Aptia Systems, Inc.

Address: 2500 Tanglewilde, Suite 300 Houston, TX 77063 USA
Contact: Royce Heslep
Phone: (713) 458-1080
URL: www.aptia.com
Email:
Description: Aptia Systems, Inc. is a custom software developer. It is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. In its 8 year history it has created 250+ web applications. Most of the applications have been developed to improve business processes. Clients range in size from small businesses to Chevron. The company has two healthcare products. Visual Specimen Manager (VSM) is a biorepository product to help manage tissue samples and the data associated with those tissues. The second product, [More...]
   

Castle Biosciences, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Castle Biosciences, Inc.

Address: 2014 San Miguel Drive Friendswood, TX 77546 USA
Contact: Derek Maetzold, Ph.D.
Phone: (281) 796-9032
URL: www.castlebiosciences.com
Email:
Description: Castle Biosciences is a biomarker-based cancer diagnostics company focused on underserved, orphan diseases. Our first product, DecisionDx-GBM, is a proprietary molecular diagnostic assay from M.D. Anderson that prospectively stratifies patient responses to first line treatment for glioblastoma, the most prevalent form of primary brain cancer. Validation is being completed in Dec ‘08 and the product will be available in 1Q09. Our second product, DecisionDx-LEA, provides similar treatment [More...]
   

Cormedics Corporation

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Cormedics Corporation

Address: Houston, Texas
Contact: James Meador
Phone: (832) 265-8850
Email:
Description: Cormedics Corporation is a Life Sciences Company focused on developing novel technologies and therapies that selectively treat the entire heart by introducing them into the pericardial space which surrounds the heart. Going forward, Cormedics plans to first commercialize its proprietary pericardial introducer. This device is a minimally-invasive instrument designed specifically to provide percutaneous access to the normal pericardial space while avoiding injury to the heart.
   

DNAtriX, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
DNAtriX, Inc.

Address: DNAtriX, Inc. One Greenway Plaza, Suite 930 Houston, TX 77046 USA
Contact: Frank Tufaro
Phone: (858) 342-6577
URL: www.dnatrix.com
Email:
Description: DNAtriX, Inc. is a Texas-based biotechnology company focused on the development of an oncoloytic virus platform initially for the treatment of malignant glioma. DNAtriX's lead product, delta24RGD, is a next-generation adenovirus invented by company founder Dr. Juan Fueyo and Dr. Frank McCormick. Phase I clinical trials for delta24RGD began in Q4 of 2008 at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
   

Ensysce Biosciences Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Ensysce Biosciences Inc.

Address: 7000 Fannin, Suite 2115 Houston, TX 77030 USA
Contact: D. Lynn Kirkpatrick
Phone: (877) 223-8145
URL: www.ensysce.com
Email:
Description: Ensysce Biosciences Inc. is identifying carbon nanotube complexes that improve cancer therapy. Their first focus is on carbon nanotubes complexed to siRNA for delivery into cancer cells, having the advantage of less toxicity than other delivery methods. The company’s first agent, a nanotube-siRNA directed toward kidney cancer, is in preclinical development.
   

Houston Medical Robotics LLC

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Houston Medical Robotics LLC

Address: 17225 El Camino Real, Suite 350 Houston, TX 77058 USA
Contact: Jeffery J. Sheldon
Phone: (281) 984-7331
URL: www.hmrobotics.com
Email:
Description: Houston Medical Robotics, Inc. is developing and commercializing revolutionary image guided hand-held medical robotics for use in various therapeutic applications. Our devices provide safer, cheaper, and more effective procedural alternatives, thereby increasing caregiver efficiency, hospital/clinic revenue, and overall patient satisfaction.
   

Laser Tissue Welding

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Laser Tissue Welding

Address: 5510 Atascocita Road, Suite 210 Humble, Texas 77346 US
Contact: Yasmin Wadia
Phone: (713) 857-7294
URL: www.lasertissuewelding.com
Email:
Description: Laser Tissue Welding focuses its research and product development in areas of innovative sutureless surgical therapies using human serum albumin based biodegradable biomaterials to join, repair and create hemostasis on surfaces of solid visceral organs such as the liver, spleen and kidney involved in trauma, cancer and transplantation even in the presence of coagulation failure or therapeutic anticoagulation. A second important application of the solid albumin biomaterial is as a [More...]
   

LaserGen, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
LaserGen, Inc.

Address: 8052 El Rio Street Houston, TX 77054 USA
Contact: Michael Metzker
Phone: (713) 747-3380
URL: www.lasergen.com
Email:
Description: LaserGen is a Houston-based biotechnology company commercializing a next-generation DNA sequencing chemistry. Compatible with existing instruments, this chemistry improves read accuracy and genome quality producing higher grade genomes for thousands of dollars within a week compared to existing solutions costing hundreds of thousands of dollars over months.
   

Leonardo Biosystems, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Leonardo Biosystems, Inc.

Address: 9000 Fannin Street, Suite 1390 Houston, TX 77030 USA
Contact: Bruce Given
Phone: (713) 436-5616
URL: http://www.arrowheadresearch.com/leonardo-biosystems.html
Email:
Description: Leonardo Biosystems was awarded $2.5 million to pursue development of multi-stage mesoporous silicon particles for the delivery of cancer drugs and other agents for the treatment of cancer. Leonardo was established to commercialize the ground-breaking research coming out of the laboratories of Professor Mauro Ferrari and his many collaborators from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston and more broadly within the Houston Medical Center. "This technology is designed to [More...]
   

Nano3D Biosciences, Inc. (n3D)

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Nano3D Biosciences, Inc. (n3D)

Address: 7000 Fannin Street, Suite 2140 Houston, TX 77030 USA
Contact: David Lee
Phone: (713) 790-1833
URL: www.n3dbio.com
Email:
Description: Nano3D Biosciences, Inc. (n3D) operates in the general arena of cell culturing and our mission is to create the industry leading standard for 3-dimensional, in vitro cell culturing solutions and to apply this disruptive technology in the fields of drug discovery and regenerative medicine. Using a proprietary combination of magnetic fields and reagents that are added to media to magnetize cells, n3D created a simple device that can levitate and even manipulate cell cultures. n3D’s [More...]
   

Noninvasix, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Address: 1700 The Strand, Suite 1.200 Galveston, TX 77555 USA
Contact: Donald S. Prough, M.D.
Phone: (409) 682-4057
Email:
Description: Noninvasix, Inc. Noninvasix, Inc., a UTMB-based startup, is developing an optoacoustic-based noninvasive platform for blood diagnostics, which will replace many invasive blood diagnostic tests. The patented optoacoustic technology will reduce blood loss, pain, cost, and biohazard risks in critically ill patients while providing rapid, accurate results at the bed-side.
   

OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc.

Address: 8275 El Rio, Suite 100 Houston, TX 77054
Contact: Michael K. Lowe
Phone: (832) 631-1656
URL: www.orthoaccel.com
Email:
Description: OrthoAccel Technologies, Inc. is creating a large orthodontic device market with a technology that significantly reduces the amount of time that it takes an orthodontist to straighten teeth with braces. The device, AcceleDent, includes a Mouthpiece and an Activator that delivers pulsing, vibratory forces that enhance the constant forces being applied by the traditional braces. The patient simply bites down on the device for twenty minutes daily; and the patented technology is compatible with [More...]
   

PowerLung, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
PowerLung, Inc.

Address: 10690 Shadow Wood Drive, Suite 100 Houston, TX 77043 United States
Contact: Carolyn Morse
Phone: (713) 465-1180
URL: www.powerlung.com
Email:
Description: From Houston, Texas facilities, PowerLung manufactures, tests, markets and distributes a proprietary device to help people breathe better to a global network of 300 trained distribution partners in 35 states and 20 countries. The 1999 initial product launch was a consumer product to verify product potential, create brand awareness, and document product capabilities. Our current focus is the launch of breakthrough product for the reimbursable medical equipment market.
   

Pulmotect, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Pulmotect, Inc.

Address: 3900 Essex Lane, Suite 250 Houston, Texas 77027
Contact: Brenton Scott
Phone: (832) 296-1779
URL: www.pulmotect.com
Email:
Description: Pulmotect, Inc. is a Houston-based biotechnology company, developing products that boost the innate immune system to protect against a wide range of lung infections. Our co-founders are leaders in the emerging science of innate immunity in the lungs. Our technologies stimulate the body’s natural defenses to provide safe, broad-spectrum, fast-acting protection against bacterial pneumonia (including MRSA), influenza, fungal pneumonia, and Class A bioterror agents (including anthrax, [More...]
   

Salient Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Salient Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

Address: 2429 Bissonnet #383 Houston, TX 77005 USA
Contact: Richard M. Scruggs
Phone: (713) 302-2998
URL: www.salientpharmaceuticals.com
Email:
Description: Formed in 2007, Salient Pharmaceuticals is a Houston, Texas based life sciences company whose mission is to improve health and quality of life while strengthening the odds of therapy success for patients who suffer from the debilitating effects of chronic and/or acute diarrhea.
   

SeprOx, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
SeprOx, Inc.

Address: 2408 Timberloch Place, Suite D-e The Woodlands, TX 77380 USA
Contact: Robert C. Schucker, Ph.D.
Phone: (281) 296-5585
Email:
Description: SeprOx Corporation is a leading developer of devices that will generate pure oxygen from air for both medical and industrial applications. Using a separation process based on Ion Transport Membranes, SeprOx generators are expected to replace cryogenic distillation as the primary source of pure oxygen in this $11 billion/year industry.
   

Shape Memory Therapeutics, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Address: 3489 Navajo Ridge Drive College Station, TX 77845 USA
Contact: Duncan Maitland
Phone: (979) 595-4426
Email:
Description: Shape Memory Therapeutics (SMT) is a medical device company founded to commercialize innovative medical devices based on Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) materials developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Texas A&M University. SMT will leverage the unique properties of SMPs – high expansion capability and a low expansion force – for minimally invasive (endovascular) applications. The company will target the cerebral aneurysm market. SMT expects to capture an estimated 10% of the $ 1.2 [More...]
   

Stematix, Inc.

Category: Client Companies  Sub: Life Science
Stematix, Inc.

Address: 2801 Post Oak Blvd., Ste. 180 Houston, Texas 77056
Contact: David Bonner
Phone: (713) 212-0671
URL: http://www.stematix.com
Email:
Description: Stematix was formed to answer the needs of companies wanting to establish stem cell therapy clinics, and provides comprehensive industry expertise and the ability to integrate, critically evaluate and consolidate the collective knowledge of existing stem cell technologies, therapies and research to be able to deliver stem cell therapy to the general population.
   

 
 
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