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IEEE MONTREAL KEYNOTE EVENT: INVENTORS & ENTREPRENEURS: Dr. Leonard Pinchuk - The Tools that Helped Establish Interventional Cardiology and Ophthalmology from the Perspective of an Innovator and Entrepreneur
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 18:00to21:00
Maass Chemistry Building
Room 112, 801 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B8, CA
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Dr. Pinchuk’s entrepreneurial teams of chemists and engineers have been involved in the development of the fundamental tools that changed radiology and cardiology from a diagnostic discipline to the therapeutic interventional radiology and cardiology that is practiced today. They introduced the first commercially successful angioplasty balloon in the mid 1980’s. The most successful drug-eluting stent (TAXUS®) uses SIBS, a novel polymer that they patented which is used as the carrier for the drug, paclitaxel. The introduction of SIBS in medicine was an overwhelming success that overcame many years of frustration from working with polymers that were never designed to be used in the body. The success of SIBS in the cardiovascular system led to the development of the InnFocus MicroShunt®, a micro-conduit used to treat glaucoma by dropping intraocular pressure by diverting aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye to a flap formed under the conjunctiva. The MicroShunt is currently changing the way advanced glaucoma is treated world-wide.
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Dr. Leonard Pinchuk
Dr. Leonard Pinchuk is an inventor and entrepreneur with 126 issued U.S. patents, 80 publications and 10 companies that he co-founded. His major accomplishments include the invention or co-invention of the modern-day angioplasty balloon, the helical wire stent, the modular stent-graft, a drug-eluting stent (TAXUS®), three important biomaterials, a novel glaucoma shunt and the next generation intraocular lens material. He was the 2017 recipient of the Society for Biomaterials Innovation and Technology Award as well as San Antonio’s 2017 BIOMED SA Award.
He received a B.Sc.
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