Cerebrotech Medical Systems is an innovative medical device company focused on the development of portable neurotechnology solutions. We are currently evaluating our proprietary VIPS technology in a study to demonstrate how our non-invasive, visor-like neurological device may change the paradigm of emergency stroke care.
“At Cerebrotech Medical Systems, our primary goal is to improve healthcare outcomes for hundreds of thousands of people each year across the globe by minimizing treatment delays following stoke and brain injury. This purpose drives our strategy and our work each and every day.”
Our core technology, Volumetric Integral Phase-shift Spectroscopy (VIPS™), provides real-time assessment of the brain’s status following strokes and brain injury/surgery, allowing for early intervention to prevent further brain damage. The technology passes very low-energy electromagnetic waves through the brain, detecting small changes to its electrical properties to allow identification of early stages of brain swelling or bleeding in less than one minute. Early detection of stroke and brain injury means early intervention, better outcomes, and reduced hospital costs.
We believe that VIPS has the potential to fundamentally improve patient outcomes and transform the paradigms for managing of life-threatening neurological events that can occur following serious conditions including stroke, traumatic brain injury, and brain surgery.
Our Intracranial Fluids (ICF™) monitor (CMS-5000), is a non-invasive, visor-like neurological device that is being designed for use in ambulances, emergency departments and patient rooms. The device uses VIPS technology as an aid to clinical assessment in conjunction with current standards of care.
Cerebrotech’s core intellectual property is licensed exclusively from the University of California at Berkeley.
There is a critical, highly-visible unmet need for effective, accurate pre-hospital stroke triage in ambulances and emergency rooms, to distinguish between the different types of stroke.
Early identification of large vessel occlusion (LVO), a specific type of stroke, will allow patients to be transported directly to a specialty stroke center for intervention to restore blood flow to the affected portion of the brain, and enable each patient to receive the optimal care for their needs.
Every 45-minute reduction in time to thrombectomy, the new standard of care for LVO, yields a 10% increase in patients with functional independence at 3 months.
Mr. Dieck has co-founded and held senior management positions in four neuro-interventional companies, all of which were acquired by Medtronic, Covidien or Stryker. Currently Mr. Dieck is Chairman of Synchron, Inc. a neuro-interventional company developing a minimally invasive brain machine interface. Mr. Dieck was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Lazarus Effect, which developed a next-generation stroke treatment device and was sold to Medtronic in 2015. He previously served as CEO and board member at Nfocus Neuromedical, and Concentric Medical. As a venture investor, Mr. Dieck was an Executive Director at DFJ-ePlanet and ePlanet Capital where he had direct responsibility for the med-tech portfolio. This portfolio included BodyMedia (sold to Aliphcom / Jawbone), Spinal Modulation (sold to St Jude Medical), Zonare (sold to Mindray), DirectFlow and Intrapace. Mr. Dieck is an inventor with over 30 issued and pending patents. He received his BA in Biological Sciences from Willamette University and MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.
Mr. Levinson is a start-up medical device executive with over 30 years of experience developing and bringing revolutionary new products to market. Mr. Levinson started Cerebrotech Medical Systems in 2011 based on a technology developed at UC Berkeley. Mr. Levinson was the start-up President and CEO for Zeltiq Aesthetics (ZLTQ), and led the development of the groundbreaking cooling technology for non-invasive fat layer reduction. Prior to Zeltiq, Mr. Levinson was the start-up VP of R&D at Thermage, which utilizes radiofrequency energy to provide non-invasive skin tightening. Thermage held its IPO in 2006, and is now part of Valeant Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Levinson was also VP of R&D at BioSurgical Corporation, developer of a novel applicator for fibrin sealant, acquired in 2000 by Baxter International. Mr. Levinson has led the development of breakthrough products at Nellcor (patient monitoring), Baxter (in vitro diagnostics), ALCOA Intercon-X, and Hewlett Packard. Many of Mr. Levinson's innovations are represented in his 37 issued U.S. patents with more pending. He earned his B.S. in Engineering Sciences from University of California at San Diego and also holds a MS in Computer Systems from University of Phoenix.
Dr. Laden co-founded TriStar Technology Ventures in 2009. Through his role at TriStar, he serves on the Board of Directors for Cerebrotech, NuSirt, Molecular Sensing and Diagnovus, and oversees TriStar’s interest in BioStable, TVA and GenomOncology. Prior to the founding of TriStar, Dr. Laden served as the Assistant Director in the Office of Technology Transfer and Enterprise Development at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Laden holds a doctorate in Toxicology from the University of Kentucky, a master’s degree in Environmental and Industrial Health from the University of Michigan and an undergraduate degree in biology from Penn State University.
Issie N. Rabinovitch is a partner at Cheyenne Capital, a venture capital firm, and sits on multiple boards of directors for his portfolio companies. Mr. Rabinovitch was the Chief Executive Officer of Mainsail Networks, a telecommunications company. He served as President and CEO of Micro Power Systems, Inc., a semiconductor products company. Mr. Rabinovitch was President of Berkeley International Capital Corporation, a venture capital firm, was President of Crowntek Software International, a software development and distribution company, and was at Xerox in various management roles. Mr. Rabinovitch holds a B.S. from McGill University and an MBA from Harvard.
Mr. Cook co-founded Mountain Group Partners in 2002. In addition to Cerebrotech, Mr. Cook currently serves on or has visitation rights to the board of directors of: Castle Biosciences,Lineagen, and MiNDERA. Mr. Cook previously served on or had visitation rights to the board of directors of: ABT Molecular Imaging, Clearside Biomedical (NASDAQ “CLSD”), Pathfinder Therapeutics, VenX, Diagnovus, and OnFocus Healthcare. Prior to his involvement with MGP, Mr. Cook was a Director, Private Placements in the Investment Banking Group of Robert W. Baird & Co., and was Vice President in the Investment Banking Group at J.C. Bradford & Co. Mr. Cook graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Davidson College.
Mitch Levinson will be speaking to entrepreneurs, investors and regulators at ComplianceOnline conference in San Diego on September 17, 2015.
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