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Dave Danielsen
Dave Danielsen is the CEO of CairnSurgical, a clinical-stage medical device company in Lebanon, New Hampshire, that spun out of Dartmouth in 2015. He leads development of the Breast Cancer Locator System, a patient-specific, 3D-printed surgical guide paired with visualization software that helps surgeons see a tumor's size, shape, and location before a lumpectomy and remove it with cleaner margins. A West Point graduate with a Tuck School MBA, Danielsen has spent his career running commercial-stage health and diagnostics companies, and is now steering CairnSurgical through its U.S. pivotal trial, FDA submission, and early commercial launch in Europe.
DoseOptics LLC
DoseOptics LLC is a Dartmouth spinoff based in Lebanon, New Hampshire that builds BeamSite, the first FDA-cleared camera system to record radiation therapy as it happens by imaging Cherenkov light - the faint glow emitted when a radiotherapy beam passes through tissue. The technology lets radiation oncology teams literally see the beam on the patient in real time, turning an invisible treatment into a video they can review, catching positioning errors and delivery anomalies that were previously undetectable.