Andrew Mackenzie

Guidant Corp. manufactures cardiovascular therapeutic devices. The company also provides cardiac and peripheral vascular repair surgical systems. It operates in Europe and Japan. Guidant was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Part of Johnson Controls International Plc, InnerDyne Medical, Inc. is a company that produces proprietary medical devices. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. InnerDyne Medical was acquired by CardioPulmonics, Inc. on January 26, 1994.

Sadra Medical, Inc. develops therapies for treatment of aortic valve diseases. The company was founded by Fred Khosravi and Amr Salahieh in 2003 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

StemCor Systems, Inc. develops proprietary and minimally-invasive bone marrow collection systems for regenerative medicine. Its products include MarrowMiner System and MarrowSelect. The company was founded in June 2003 by Daniel Kraft and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

BioCardia, Inc. is a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company developing novel therapeutics for cardiovascular diseases with large unmet medical needs. The firm develops two comprehensive biotherapeutic products for cardiac arrest; CardiAMP and CardiALLO. CardiAMP is a bone marrow derived cell-based therapy for ischemic systolic heart failure patients who are not actively ischemic. CardiALLo is a allogeneic culture expanded mesenchymal bone marrow cells from a universal donor for use in multiple unrelated patients, entering Phase II development. Its other products also include Helix System and Morph Products. The company was founded in March 2002 and is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.