Gaurav

Gaurav Krishnamurthy, PhD is a Senior R&D engineer at a Bay Area based medical device start-up. Gaurav has a strong passion for medical device innovation and is interested in disruptive medical technologies that not only solve an unmet clinical need, but also bring down the cost of healthcare. Gaurav closely follows medical device trends in emerging markets and is fascinated by simple and inexpensive solutions to major healthcare problems. Gaurav earned his PhD and Master's in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University where he developed state of the art computational models of beating heart valves that can be used to design and test heart valve prosthetics. Gaurav was a Medtronic BioX Fellow at Stanford University. Gaurav also serves as a Senior Advisor to a Bay Area angel investment group focusing on mobile health and healthcare innovation.

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Neurology

September 29th, 2014 Jolt (St. Louis, MO), is developing a head-worn sensor to better diagnose sports related concussions. The Jolt sensor, which originated as an engineering lab project at MIT, consists of a small clip that can attach to sports headgear such as helmets, goggles, and head bands. After an athlete's head accelerates in an unusual manner, the...
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August 19th, 2014 TMJ Health (Farmington Hills, MI) has received FDA clearance for the TMJ NextGeneration Device to alleviate temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJD) pain. TMJD affects the jaw joint, surrounding muscles, and nerves, leading to chronic pain and poor quality of life. According to the NIH, more than 35 million Americans suffer from TMJD,...
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August 18th, 2014 The activity tracker market is currently saturated with a plethora of products with varying degrees of accuracy when measuring and reporting the user's physical activity data. Most of the popular products like the Fitbit Force or Nike+ FuelBand still suffer from the inability to differentiate a simple hand motion while talking from an...
Neurology

August 12th, 2014 A collaborative effort by a French medical device company (Bioserenity), a British epilepsy organization (Epilepsy Action), and a French epilepsy organization (Efappe) has led to the first of a kind smart clothing system and companion app that help monitor and diagnose epilepsy. Conventional epilepsy diagnosis and treatment rely on...
Cardiology

August 8th, 2014 PlaqueTec (Cambridge, UK), has received CE Mark approval for its first of a kind Liquid Biopsy System that can be used to gather information from diseased arteries to better tailor treatment strategies for patients with cardiovascular disease. The Liquid Biopsy System, which is used along with conventional equipment in a catheterization...
Dermatology

Cynosure (Westford, MA) has gained FDA clearance for the PicoSure system to treat acne scars. The PicoSure system uses short bursts of laser energy to photomechanically breakdown scars into smaller particles that are eliminated by the body, without adverse impact to the skin. Unlike competitive technologies that use nanosecond lasers,...
Net News

August 4th, 2014 Hello, a San Francisco, CA-based company, is developing a sleep tracker that does not have to be worn by the user. The Sense sleep tracking system consists of the spherical Sense device that sits on a night stand, a discreet sleep tracking sensor called Sleep Pill that clips to a pillow, and a mobile app that integrates the spherical...
Radiology

January 28th, 2014 Aptly-named Atheromed (Menlo Park, CA) has received FDA approval for the Phoenix Atherectomy System that treats peripheral artery disease (PAD) by removing plaque from arterial walls. The Phoenix Atherectomy System is introduced over a guide wire to the target location and uses a cutting element at the distal tip of the catheter to...
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