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On-X Life Technologies Enters License and Development Agreement with Cleveland Clinic for Surgical System to Repair Mitral Valve Chordae

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, December 25th, 2009

Austin-based On-X® Life Technologies, Inc. (On-X LTI), manufacturers of the On-X® Prosthetic Heart Valve, announced that it has entered into an exclusive worldwide license with the Cleveland Clinic for a system of products intended to improve and simplify the replacement of damaged or severed mitral valve chordae. The system is the creation of co-inventors A. Marc Gillinov, M.D., a staff cardiac surgeon at Cleveland Clinic, and Michael K. Banbury, M. D., of Christiana Care's Center for Heart and Vascular Health, and will be co-developed with the On-X LTI New Product Development team.

Surgical repair of the mitral valve includes the insertion of a...

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