Medical robotics startup HistoSonics and its Minnesota-based executive team announced a $54 million Series C fundraising round with backers including proton-beam therapy maker Varian Medical Systems and Dr. Fred Moll, founder of the world’s largest medical-robot company, Intuitive Surgical. HistoSonics is designing and testing a cancer-killing machine that combines robotics, real-time imaging and a novel energy source into a system that can liquefy and destroy cancer cells inside the body using focused acoustic energy. HistoSonics has strong Midwestern roots. HistoSonics’ CEO, Mike Blue, lives in the Minneapolis area and is a former sales vice president with Plymouth’s super Dimension, now owned by Medtronic. HistoSonics also has executives in operations, R & D and finance who live in the Twin Cities. The company is headquartered in Michigan, and is based on a technique called histotripsy, invented at the University of Michigan. One of the major … [Read more...] about Medical robotics startup HistoSonics raises $54M
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Global Proton Therapy Market 2019 Industry Analysis, Share, Growth, Sales, Trends, Supply, Forecast 2025
WiseGuyReports.com adds “Proton Therapy Market 2019 Global Analysis, Growth, Trends and Opportunities Research Report Forecasting 2025” reports to its database. PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, March 27, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Proton Therapy Market: Executive Summary Proton beam therapy is a type of particle therapy that uses photon ionizing radiation for irradiation of diseases tissues. It is the most advanced form of radiation therapy enhanced with precise dose sculpting capability. It is relatively a niche radiation therapy with minimal radiation exposure, successfully eradicating potential side-effects of other forms of conventional radiation therapies. The proton therapy systems market by technology has been segmented into pencil beam scanning systems, uniform scanning systems and passive scattering systems. Pencil beam scanning being the most precise method of proton beam delivery has highest dosimetric advantage. Proton therapy has garnered immense popularity and has … [Read more...] about Global Proton Therapy Market 2019 Industry Analysis, Share, Growth, Sales, Trends, Supply, Forecast 2025
Proton therapy coming to UAB in 2020
The state will have its first proton therapy center in operation by early next year, operated by University of Alabama at Birmingham staff.The new UAB Proton Center is currently under construction on 20th Street South at 4th Avenue South. The facility and machinery inside are owned by Proton International, but UAB will operate the facility.UAB’s Proton Therapy Center will be the first of its kind in Alabama to house a proton cyclotron—a machine used to shoot a proton beam directly at tumors—for radiation. Unlike X-Ray radiation, the proton radiation is designed to not damage tissues and organs that surround the tumor. It is especially useful in treating children. The cyclotron weighs 90 tons and cost about $25 million. It was made in Germany by the manufacturer Varian, and was shipped to Savannah. The cyclotron was driven on a special truck from Savannah to Birmingham, led by a police escort.Varian handled the installation and assembly.Dr. Rex Cardan, the medical … [Read more...] about Proton therapy coming to UAB in 2020