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Motasim Sirhan Spent a Career Building Stents. Then He Asked the Artery to Move Again.
After helping build the modern stent business, the Elixir Medical founder chose a harder brief: support the vessel, then give it back its motion. The result took more than 150 bench iterations, a major technical pivot, and nearly two decades of clinical work.
Yunfei Cao
Yunfei 'Richard' Cao is the co-founder and CEO of Angio8 (通甪科技), a Shenzhen-based startup building a next-generation surgical robot for minimally invasive vascular interventional surgery. A Stony Brook biomedical engineer who cut his teeth inside the Boston medical-device machine at Vention Medical, SunMed and China Med Device, Cao now runs a cross-Pacific company - engineering brains in Boston, manufacturing and clinical work in Shenzhen - aimed at letting doctors steer catheters and guidewires by robot instead of by hand.