Corporate Overview
With a focus on improving patient outcomes today, while driving the development of tomorrow’s next-generation medical technology, Biosensors has become over the last two-decade a leader in the global coronary stent market. Beyond a strong foothold in cardiovascular devices and critical care products, the company has more recently entered new therapeutic areas as Endovascular and cardiac imaging with enhanced devices and systems.
Our Mission
Through our high quality medical devices, we impact the lives we touch, and we are committed to continue investing in and developing pioneering medical technology, pharmacological research, and engineering new medical devices that will further benefit our patients.
This will create the greatest possible patient outcomes, and provide value to our stakeholders including physicians, shareholders and employees.
Pioneering from the Start
Since 1990, we have been developing and marketing critical care catheter systems and related devices used during heart surgery and intensive care treatment.
Always seeking to be at the forefront of product innovation, we entered the interventional cardiology market in 2000 with our proprietary coronary stent and accompanying stent delivery system.
Since that time, Biosensors has rapidly grown to become the world’s fourth largest supplier of cardiac stents, with the BioMatrix™ family of drug-eluting stent and the Axxess™ self-expanding bifurcation stent. Our pioneering work has continued with the development of the BioFreedom drug-coated stent, which received CE Mark approval in January 2013 and is currently available in selected markets.
In 2013, we have expanded our reach with the Spectrum Dynamics acquisition and our D-SPECT system is a cardiology-dedicated nuclear imaging system used by leading medical centers around the world. D-SPECT aims to help physicians select the right patients for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
In 2015 we have also recently entered the endovascular therapy area with both a specific drug-eluting stent based on our proprietary BioMatrix technology and drug-eluting balloons for both below and above the knee interventions.
Innovating through Technology
The BioMatrix Family of drug-eluting stents incorporate Biolimus A9™ (BA9™), an anti-restenotic drug developed specifically for use with stents and patented by Biosensors, together with a unique abluminal biodegradable polymer coating, which fully degrades into carbon dioxide and water after six to nine months as it releases BA9.
The latest additions to the BioMatrix Family are BioMatrix NeoFlex™ that features an enhanced stent delivery system, bringing exceptional performance in complex lesions and challenging anatomies and the new DCS Drug Coated Stent, BioFreedom that features a micro-structured abluminal surface, which permits the controlled release of BA9 without the use of a polymer or other carrier.