ArcScan, Inc
Category: Medical / Diagnostics Instrumentations
Campus: Weill Cornell Medicine
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
ArcScan, Inc., is developing Artemis 3, a high-resolution ultrasound scanner that enables eye surgeons to design phakic and accommodative lenses to reduce the risk of bad outcomes in corneal surgeries and lens implants.
Location: Golden, CO
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2007
Big Blue Biotech
Category: Medical / Diagnostics Instrumentations
Campus: Weill Cornell Medicine
Incubator:
Big Blue Biotech produces a novel catheter system designed to decrease the risk of contamination of urine specimens with peri-urethral bacteria when obtaining urine specimens from pediatric patients via bladder catheter.
Location: Westwood, Massachusetts
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2018
Bionic Sight, LLC
Category: Medical / Diagnostics Instrumentations
Campus: Weill Cornell Medicine
Incubator:
Bionic Sight develops neuro-prosthetics—prosthetic devices to treat blindness due to retinal degenerative disease that interact with the nervous system in order to restore function to damaged or degenerated tissue in the eye. The company is developing a technique involving gene therapy and a wearable device that correctly transmits light pulses to the brain, giving the wearer sight.
Location: New York, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2013
Fesarius Therapeutics, Inc.
Category: Medical / Diagnostics Instrumentations
Campus: Weill Cornell Medicine
Incubator:
Fesarius Therapeutics is developing engineered tissue scaffold products for the skin and dermal layers. The products are based off the patent-pending microstructure-containing gel scaffold technology developed at Cornell. The acellular skin replacement will aim to benefit those with wounds resulting from burns, plastic surgery, tumor removal, and other forms of trauma. The company joined the National Institutes of Health as part of its I-Corps @ NIH Winter 2020 Program in February 2020.
Location: New York, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2016
Guard Medical
Category: Medical / Diagnostics Instrumentations
Campus: Weill Cornell Medicine
Incubator:
Guard Medical, a privately-held company, is developing easy-to-use and cost-effective solutions that enable prophylactic Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) wound care of closed surgical incisions. Guard Medical’s simple NPWT technology originated with New York – Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine in response to physicians’ identification of unmet needs related to Surgical Site Infections (SSI). Its investors include Bpifrance and Matignon Investissement et Gestion. Guard Medical’s vision is to develop NPWT solutions for use on a wide range of surgical wound types and sizes with broad applications for infection prevention, scar mitigation and enhanced cosmesis.
Location: Paris, France
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2018
Lumendi Ltd.
Category: Medical / Diagnostics Instrumentations
Campus: Weill Cornell Medicine
Incubator:
Lumendi Ltd., is focused on the development of new minimal invasive surgical tools and devices that will provide solutions for minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgeries. The company’s first product is an add-on to any commercially available endoscope that will avoid invasive colon resections to treat more complex gastrointestinal diseases.
Location: Buckinghamshire, England
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2014
Lumidyne Technologies, LLC
Category: Medical / Diagnostics Instrumentations
Campus: Weill Cornell Medicine
Incubator:
Lumidyne develops next-generation fluorescent probes exhibiting superior brightness and stability compared with current commercially available reagents.
Location: New York, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2014
Pelex, Inc.
Category: Medical / Diagnostics Instrumentations
Campus: Weill Cornell Medicine
Incubator:
Pelex is a digital health platform for pelvic floor disorders built on a proprietary connected medical device. The goal of the company is to revolutionize the patient experience by bringing diagnosis AND treatment of pelvic floor disorders out of the clinic and into the home.
Location: New York, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2019
