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Boston Scientific Built a $20 Billion Business From Smaller Incisions
The company’s most durable idea is also its smallest: reach the disease through a vessel, an opening or a pinprick - then turn that procedure into a platform.
Interscope, Inc.
Interscope, Inc. is a Northbridge, Massachusetts medical device company that develops the EndoRotor, a flexible, powered endoscopic resection system that dissects, resects, and collects tissue in the gastrointestinal tract without thermal energy. Founded in 2011, the company created the first flexible microdebrider designed for the digestive tract and holds the first and only FDA marketing authorization for Direct Endoscopic Necrosectomy (DEN) in walled-off pancreatic necrosis. Interscope sells to interventional gastroenterologists and hospitals, and distributes the EndoRotor system through a partnership with Micro-Tech Endoscopy.
Neptune Medical
Neptune Medical is a Silicon Valley medical device company building the future of gastrointestinal endoscopy around its proprietary Dynamic Rigidization technology, which lets a thin-walled tube toggle instantly between flexible and rigid states using vacuum. Its first FDA-cleared product, the Pathfinder overtube, tackles the old and unglamorous problem of endoscope 'looping' during colonoscopy, and has been used in more than 15,000 patients. The company is now extending that platform into the Triton robotic endoscopy system, which posted a clean 100% cecal intubation rate with no adverse events in its first-in-human study.