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Innovation Center : About CCIC

Facility

Cleveland Clinic Innovation CenterThe Cleveland Clinic Innovation Center provides a home to Cleveland Clinic Spin-Offs and equity partners. It is an element of Cleveland Clinic Innovations and provides state-of-the-art laboratories and easy access to the Cleveland Clinic's core facilities and top staff. The fifteen thousand square foot facility is located in the heart of the Cleveland Clinic's main campus and enables maximum interaction between the companies seeking to bring innovative new products to market and the Cleveland Clinic's leading staff.

Use of the Innovation Center is limited to Cleveland Clinic equity partners and spin-off companies. The Innovation Center houses six companies and the CCF Innovations department. The 15, 000 square foot facility contains eight laboratories and twenty-five offices. Companies typically stay in the facility for 24 months and then locate into space adjacent to the Clinic’s campus.

Clients

Spin-Off Technology

Clear Catheter Systems
Clear Catheter Systems

Technology: Chest tube drainage technologies.
Year established: 2007
Stage: Pre-Series A
Location: Cleveland
http://www.clearcatheter.com

Contact Ed Boyle, M.D. for more information: emb @ pleuraflow.com


CSF Therapeutics
CSF Therapeutics

Technology: Implantable devices to restore cognitive function.
Year established: 2005
Stage: Pre-Series B
Location: Cleveland

Contact Jeffrey Arnold for more information: j.m.arnold @ comcast.net


AcelleRX
Juventas Therapeutics

Technology: Biopharmaceuticals that recruit stem cells to repair ischemic tissue.
Year established: 2006
Stage: Pre-Series B
Location: Cleveland

Contact Rahul Aras, Ph.D. for more information: Rahul @ juventas.com


Navis Medical
Navis Medical
Technology: Steerable guidewire technology.
Year established: 2007
Stage: Pre-Series A
Location: Cleveland

Contact Jennifer Boland for more information: bolandj @ ccf.org


PeriTec
PeriTec Biosciences

Technology: Peritoneum lined peripheral vascular products .
Year established:2002
Stage: Pre-Series B
Location: Cleveland

Contact Timur Sarac, M.D. for more information: saract @ ccf.org


Prognostix
Prognostix

Technology: Cardiovascular diagnostics and specialty reference lab.
Year established: 2003
Stage: Pre-Series B
Location: Cleveland
http://www.prognostix.com

Contact Jacob Orville for more information: jorville @ prognostix.com




SDG, Inc.

Technology: Utilization of nano technology as a platform to invent, patent and develop targeted drug delivery systems for pharmaceutical and consumer product application.
Year established: 1993
Stage: Privately held
Location: Cleveland

Contact Robert Geho for more information: bob @ sdgpharma.com

Graduates


Cleveland BioLabs
Cleveland BioLabs

Technology: Therapeutics for cancer treatment and protection of normal tissues from radiation.
Year established: 2003
Stage: NASDAQ
Location: Buffalo

http://www.cbiolabs.com


Frantz BioMarkers
Frantz BioMarkers

Technology: A recent graduate of the CCIC, the company is developing and commercializing novel biomarker diagnostics licensed from various research institutions including the Cleveland Clinic. Frantz BioMarkers joined the CCIC in the fall of 2004.
Year established: 2004

For more information please visit www.frantzmedical.com.