Free of charge lecture by Leonard Pinchuk
July 4th – 13:30-14:30 at Medace facility
On July 4th, Leonard Pinchuk will provide a unique lecture to the Medace community at the Medace facility. Dr. Leonard Pinchuk is an experienced inventor and entrepreneur in biomedical engineering, with 128 US patents and 90 publications.
He has cofounded 10 companies where his major accomplishments include invention of the Nylon 12 angioplasty balloon, helical wire stent, modular stent-graft, a drug-eluting stent (TAXUS®), several biomaterials (SIBS), a novel glaucoma tube (the InnFocus MicroShunt®), and the next generation intraocular lens. He is also Distinguished Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami.
Dr. Pinchuk started his career at Cordis Corporation and left in 1987 to cofound Corvita Corporation (angioplasty catheters, stents, stent-grafts). Corvita was taken public (1994), acquired by Pfizer, Inc. (1996), and then sold to Boston Scientific Corporation (1998). Desiring to return to the startup setting, Dr. Pinchuk founded Innovia LLC (2002), incubating many companies in the fields of intraocular lenses, glaucoma shunts, radiation oncology, urology, gene therapy, and others. In 2016 Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. acquired his current company, InnFocus, Inc., where he is now chief scientific officer.
