Managing Partner at Sofinnova Partners, France Antoine Papiernik is a Managing Partner at Sofinnova Partners, which he joined in 1997. Antoine has been an initial investor and active board member in public companies like Actelion, ProQR, Shockwave Medical, NovusPharma (then sold to CTI), Movetis (then sold to Shire), Mainstay, Pixium Vision and Stentys, which went public respectively …
Founder and President at MAXIS LLC., USA Ms. Marshall created MAXIS LLC., in 2003 after nearly twenty years as a significant strategic contributor to the overall success of multiple medical device start-up companies. She holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an M.S. in Regulatory Affairs from Northeastern University. She is an experienced senior executive, skilled in …
Director, Heart Institute, Hadassah-Hebrew University. Founder and director – ICI Meeting. Interventional Cardiology, Israel Professor Chaim Lotan was born in Hadera, Israel in 1952. He completed medical training at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in 1979 and concluded his specialization in Cardiology in 1987. Between 1987-89 he held a Clinical and Research fellowship in Interventional …
Co-Founder & General Managing Partner at Peregrine Ventures, Israel Eyal Lifschitz is a General Managing Partner and Co-founder of Peregrine Ventures. Eyal serves on behalf of Peregrine Ventures on the boards of Valtech Cardio Ltd, NLT SPINE Ltd, and CardioGard Ltd. Prior to founding Peregrine Ventures, Eyal co-founded numerous medical technology companies including PharmaSys (acquired by Elan …
President & CEO at Cardiovascular Research Foundation, USA Juan F. Granada is the President and Chief Executive Officer at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, NY. Dr. Granada is also Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Granada leads a multidisciplinary research group which aims to accelerate the …
Dr. Gershony grew up in Toronto, Canada and attended the University of Toronto where he graduated from medical school at age 23. He continued his training in internal medicine and general cardiology at the University of Toronto where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Gershony continued his training in interventional cardiology, serving a …
Elazer R. Edelman is a clinician-scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School. At MIT he is Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Director of the Biomedical Engineering and Clinical Research Centers. At Harvard he is Professor of Medicine and Senior Physician in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In that latter capacity he is an Attending …
Dr. Binur has over 30 years of worldwide venture capital and investment experience. Since 2009, Dr. Binur has been focused on the emerging markets, mostly China. In 2000 he founded Accelerated Technologies, Inc. – a highly differentiated investment firm focused on medical technologies and specifically cardiovascular. Prior to that, Dr. Binur has been a founding partner of …
Professor Rafael Beyar received his MD from Tel Aviv University (1977), his DSc from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion (1983), and his MPH from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (2008). Throughout his career, Beyar’s research focus has been on combining engineering concepts with tools to simulate, understand, and analyze the …
Amir Belson, M.D., was the founder of Neoguide Systems, that was acquired by Intuitive Surgical in 2009, Vascular Pathways, a vascular intervention technology which was acquired by C R Bard, Zipline Medical, a wound closure technology company, Qool Therapeutics, a minimally invasive therapeutic hypothermia technology company, Radiaction Medical, a radiation protection medical device company, VasoStitch, which …