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MediSpectra secures $13 million venture capital funding.(Abstract)
2002 OCT 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- MediSpectra, Inc., a privately held medical device company, announced that a $13 million round in venture capital investment has been completed, bringing the total dollar amount raised to $57 million.
In related news, Thomas Wright, director of the division of gynecologic and obstetric pathology and director of colposcopy services at New York Presbyterian Hospital has joined the company as medical director, and Robert Young, a 30-year veteran of the medical device industry, has joined as vice president of manufacturing.
Founded in 1996, MediSpectra has developed an optical technology that detects high-grade precancerous lesions. Luma, the company's cervical imaging system, combines fluorescence and white light to completely scan a woman's cervix in 12 seconds and project that image onto a video screen. The color image on the screen - which readily identifies diseased areas differently from healthy tissue - can be ...
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