4 February 2010

Cardiff University spins out medical devices company with backing from Fusion IP

Science|Business

Spin-out

Fusion IP, the quoted university IP commercialisation specialist, has backed the formation of Asalus Medical Instruments Ltd, a spin-out from Cardiff University.

Asalus is founded on the inventions of Neil Warren, Manager of the Wales Institute of Minimal Access Therapy (WIMAT) at University Hospital Wales in Cardiff. The company is developing three new devices to improve the safety and efficiency of laparoscopic surgery, a surgical technique in which operations in the abdomen are performed through small incisions.

There are several benefits to laparoscopic surgery and, as a result, the numbers of procedures using the technique has grown rapidly over recent years. Over two million laparoscopic operations per year are performed in the...

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