The Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars series continues its fall schedule
with a program on Vascular Insights LLC, a New Haven-area start-up company
founded to develop, manufacture and market the ClariVein-VA™ vascular
ablation devices used to treat varicose vein disease.
The presentation will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 4-5 p.m. in the Anlyan
Center auditorium, Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar St. The series is organized
by the Yale Office of Cooperative Research and Connecticut United for Research
Excellence (CURE).
The system Vascular Insights is developing combines technology licensed from
Yale and its own intellectual property in a simplified procedure that uses a
single, disposable product for elimination of varicose veins.
According to the founders of Vascular Insights, the company’s procedure
will eliminate the need for anesthesia, hospitalization or surgery, and will
cause less damage to surrounding tissue and nerves than current therapies. They
say this would translate into considerably reduced convalescence, complications
and pain for patients.
The featured speakers will be co-founders John Marano, president and CEO of Vascular
Insights; and Dr. Michael Tal, chief medical adviser of Vascular Insights and
associate professor of radiology at Yale School of Medicine.
Varicose vein disease affects an estimated 75 to 150 million people in North America and Western Europe, and is one of the least
treated chronic conditions in the developed world.
“The market for treatment of varicose vein disease is just waiting for
a good solution,” said Marano. “Currently only about 1% to 2% of
sufferers actually obtain treatment, in large part due to the cost, and the unacceptable
nature and trauma of existing treatments — which include surgery and laser
destruction of tissue.”
Refreshments and networking will follow the seminar 5-7 p.m. Admission is free,
but .advanced registration is required. To RSVP, send an e-mail to biohaven@yale.edu
or call the Yale Office of Cooperative Research at (203) 785-6209. A flyer about
all events in the series is online at http://curenet.org/download/biohaven.pdf. Directions to the event are available online at http://info.med.yale.edu/maps/cab.html.
Other sponsors of the Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars are Wiggin and
Dana LLP, Elm Street Ventures, and Price Waterhouse Coopers PC., with support
from Yale Entrepreneurial Society and Yale Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical
Society.
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