Recent from talks
Boston Scientific
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Boston Scientific
42°21′37.3″N 71°33′32.6″W / 42.360361°N 71.559056°W
Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC) is an American biotechnology and biomedical engineering firm and multinational manufacturer of medical devices used in interventional medical specialties, including interventional radiology, interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neuromodulation, neurovascular intervention, electrophysiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, endoscopy, oncology, urology and gynecology.
The company is known for the development of the Taxus Stent, a drug-eluting stent which is used to open clogged arteries. The company acquired Cameron Health in June 2012 and began to offer a minimally invasive implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) called the EMBLEM subcutaneous implantable defibrillator (S-ICD).
Over the last 20 years, Boston Scientific has had some high-profile patent infringement cases. It has made extensive payouts, including $1.725 billion to Johnson & Johnson, $85 million to Nevro and $42 million to TissueGen.
BSC is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts and incorporated in Delaware.
Boston Scientific was formed on June 29, 1979, in Watertown, Massachusetts, as a holding company for the medical products company Medi-Tech, Inc., and to position the company for growth in interventional medicine. Medi-Tech was the brainchild of Itzhak Bentov, a Czech-born émigré to Israel and then to the United States, who worked at the Arthur D. Little think tank in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and ran a contract research company from his rented house in Belmont, Massachusetts, a venture he founded in 1965 with a business friend, Dan Singer.
In 1967 Bentov was asked by Boston Beth Israel Hospital radiologists to design a steerable, remotely controlled catheter; a series of engineering designs, polymer improvements and prototypes led to the release of a new steerable angiography catheter in 1969. That year John Abele joined the small company with an option to buy. A year later he exercised his option with Cooper Labs as a business partner, and the operation was moved – out of Bentov's lab in the basement of the rectory of a Catholic church in Belmont – to Watertown.
After a decade of steady growth, by chance Abele met Pete Nicholas in their neighborhood in Concord, Massachusetts. Their partnership hinged on Nicholas' goal to build business enterprises and Abele's predilection for the vision and potential in noninvasive surgical instrumentation; they gathered backers in the Boston banking community to buy out the Cooper Labs interest and form the new corporation.
Hub AI
Boston Scientific AI simulator
(@Boston Scientific_simulator)
Boston Scientific
42°21′37.3″N 71°33′32.6″W / 42.360361°N 71.559056°W
Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC) is an American biotechnology and biomedical engineering firm and multinational manufacturer of medical devices used in interventional medical specialties, including interventional radiology, interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neuromodulation, neurovascular intervention, electrophysiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, endoscopy, oncology, urology and gynecology.
The company is known for the development of the Taxus Stent, a drug-eluting stent which is used to open clogged arteries. The company acquired Cameron Health in June 2012 and began to offer a minimally invasive implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) called the EMBLEM subcutaneous implantable defibrillator (S-ICD).
Over the last 20 years, Boston Scientific has had some high-profile patent infringement cases. It has made extensive payouts, including $1.725 billion to Johnson & Johnson, $85 million to Nevro and $42 million to TissueGen.
BSC is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts and incorporated in Delaware.
Boston Scientific was formed on June 29, 1979, in Watertown, Massachusetts, as a holding company for the medical products company Medi-Tech, Inc., and to position the company for growth in interventional medicine. Medi-Tech was the brainchild of Itzhak Bentov, a Czech-born émigré to Israel and then to the United States, who worked at the Arthur D. Little think tank in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and ran a contract research company from his rented house in Belmont, Massachusetts, a venture he founded in 1965 with a business friend, Dan Singer.
In 1967 Bentov was asked by Boston Beth Israel Hospital radiologists to design a steerable, remotely controlled catheter; a series of engineering designs, polymer improvements and prototypes led to the release of a new steerable angiography catheter in 1969. That year John Abele joined the small company with an option to buy. A year later he exercised his option with Cooper Labs as a business partner, and the operation was moved – out of Bentov's lab in the basement of the rectory of a Catholic church in Belmont – to Watertown.
After a decade of steady growth, by chance Abele met Pete Nicholas in their neighborhood in Concord, Massachusetts. Their partnership hinged on Nicholas' goal to build business enterprises and Abele's predilection for the vision and potential in noninvasive surgical instrumentation; they gathered backers in the Boston banking community to buy out the Cooper Labs interest and form the new corporation.
Recent media