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Diane Abensur is a Franco-Israeli entrepreneur and the CEO & co-founder of Nanosynex. She established the company in 2017 after graduating from the Technion Institute of Technology International M.B.A (Haifa, Israel). She graduated from E.D.H.E.C Business School (Lille, France) and obtained her Master Degree in Business Management. In between, she worked as a junior analyst in consulting and M&A on healthcare deals in Paris and New York.
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Presentation Time and Location
on 25th, during Rising European Stars Session (from 16.15 to 17.15)
The “external fixators” (FixEx) used to date have already provided the outstanding service of stabilizing bone fractures in case of serious injuries, open bone fractures and severe joint fractures for decades.With all “external fixator” systems, four to six bone pins are screwed through the skin and into the bone. A fixation device (the actual “external fixator”) is then attached to these bone pins externally. Very often so-called “trauma fixators” are then removed after a few days or weeks once the patient’s overall condition has stabilized. The bone fracture is then definitively stabilized using a plate and screws or intramedullary nails. However, mounting the “external fixator” systems that are currently on the market is enormously time-consuming and error-prone and can only be reliably implemented by experienced orthopedic surgeons.
The technical invention “snake FX” by the Erlangen-based startup nice!innovations GmbH has profoundly revolutionized the “external fixator” and its use in orthopedics and accident surgery. It is a conceptually completely new and an already well-developed product that enables an enormously clever, incomparably fast, incredibly simple method for stabilization of bone fractures by means of an unprecedented “snake principle”. Its “one-step rapid fixation technology” allows “snakeFX” to both fix the external fixator to the bone pins and stabilize the “FixEx” in a single step! Using traditional external fixator systems, both tasks involved time-consuming and error-prone mounting operations. Patents for “snake FX” have already been awarded for Europe, US, Brazil and Japan!
Precisely these unique selling points are leveraged when it comes to distribution: An initial estimate from Switzerland illustrates the high cost-saving potential combined with a dramatic increase in the quality of care for the patient. In Switzerland, one minute in the operating room costs 80 CHF. It takes trained orthopedic and trauma surgeons anywhere from 60 to 120 minutes for mounting and to make fine adjustments. The “snakeFX” aims to reduce this time to about 15 minutes.
nice!innovations GmbH is currently developing the “snakeFX” into an approved product that is ready for series production. A crowd-financing campaign on www.aescuvest.de had collected more than 260,000 euros for this purpose as of February 2016 (in the form of subordinated loans). Following successful prototyping (expected in Q3/2017), snakeFX can obtain CE approval and be prepared for series production (target Q3/2018) within 9 to 12 months. The service provider for carrying out CE certification (Risk Class 1s; assessment by the “Notified Bodies” is available) has already been commissioned; a usability study with trauma surgeons, prototype-testing in a certified testing laboratory and a clinical trial are currently being conceptualized and implemented. An investor or strategic partner is being sought for the subsequent international commercialization of “snakeFX”.
Jörg Trinkwalter is a member of the Executive Board of the cluster management organization Medical Valley Europäische Metropolregion Nürnberg (EMN) e.V., as well as registered manager of the incubator Medical Valley Center in Erlangen/Germany. Medical Valley EMN is considered as one of the most dynamic medical technology regions worldwide and was awarded national cluster of excellence by the German Ministry of Education and Research in 2010. In 2015 Jörg Trinkwalter co-founded the two medical technology startup companies nice!innovations GmbH and TBrace GmbH in the orthopedic area and acts as CEO of these companies. nice!innovations GmbH raised 262.000 € in 2016 via a crowdfinancing campaign on www.aescuvest.de in order to develop the new fixateur externe-concept “snakeFX” market-ready.
Nanna Lüneborg is a Principal at Novo Ventures, a leading global life science investor, which participated in the IPO of Inventiva in February 2017. Novo Ventures is part of Novo A/S, the holding and investment company of the Novo Nordisk foundation. Prior to joining Novo A/S, she was part of the life science investment team at Apposite Capital, a London-based venture capital firm specialising in healthcare. In 2012, she joined Novo A/S, where she has been part of both the seed and venture investment teams. She has previous board experience from a range of biotech companies spanning start-up to late stage development, most recently from the board of ObsEva, which completed an IPO on NASDAQ in January 2017. She currently serves on the boards of Orphazyme and Epsilon-3 Bio, in addition to Inventiva.
Nanna holds a BA from University of Oxford, a PhD in Neuroscience from University College London as a Wellcome Trust Scholar, and an MBA from University of Cambridge, where she was a Sainsbury Scholar.
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