Acquandas is a thin-film device manufacturer that’s now partially owned by brain-computer interface developer Synchron. Rodrigo Lima de Miranda founded Acquandas in 2012 based on microsystem technology he developed for his doctoral thesis, where he was trying to develop a shape memory material made with thin-film deposition. The Kiel, Germany-based contract manufacturer now uses the…
Shunt device startup wants to break barriers in nitinol and heart sensing
Medical devices have yet to tap nitinol’s shape memory properties, but that’s just one breakthrough Adona Medical hopes to achieve with its adjustable, bi-atrial-sensing heart shunt. Adona Medical co-founder and CEO Brian Fahey’s presentation on his shunt device startup’s aspirations elicited palpable interest from the cardiologists in the room at CSI Frankfurt. “You plan to…