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The 10 hottest medtech startups of 2018

April 27, 2018 By Chris Newmarker

Gel-e medical device medtech startups

[Image courtesy of Gel-e]

Gel-E

College Park, Md.

Founded: 2013

gel-e.co

Wound care, hemostatic devices and associated products may not have the flash of their technological competitors in medtech, but are just as innovative. College Park, Md.–based Gel-E is looking to make waves in the hemostatic and wound treatment fields with its platform of wound care products designed around its proprietary, self-assembling biopolymer, which it claims create rapid coagulation with inherent anti-microbial properties.

Gel-E is developing a number of different applications utilizing its hemostatic technology, including strips, films, bandages and gels designed for use both externally and internally.

The company touts significant improvements over commercial chitosan-based hemostatics, and was featured as a top innovator in the late Stephen Hawking’s BBC series. The company also recently won a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop products aimed at prolonged field care.

“Gel-E is on an arc to bring disruptive new hemostatic and wound treatment products to clinic, OR and backyard. We rely on a programmable advanced materials platform to design products that can solve unmet clinical needs for a broad array of human bleeding events,” Larry Tiffany, the company’s president, told Medical Design & Outsourcing.

“At the core, Gel-e is an advanced materials company. We’re building a materials platform, and while it has found FDA-cleared applications in hemostasis and wound treatment, we view these early products as the beginning of a robust pipeline,” said chief scientific officer Matthew Dowling.

–Fink Densford, Associate Editor

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Chris Newmarker

Chris Newmarker is the executive editor of WTWH Media life science's news websites and publications including MassDevice, Medical Design & Outsourcing and more. A professional journalist of 18 years, he is a veteran of UBM (now Informa) and The Associated Press whose career has taken him from Ohio to Virginia, New Jersey and, most recently, Minnesota. He’s covered a wide variety of subjects, but his focus over the past decade has been business and technology. He holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from Ohio State University. Connect with him on LinkedIn or email at cnewmarker@wtwhmedia.com.

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