Financings in Brief: CompuCyte
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CompuCyte: Receives $2 mil. equity investment from San Diego-based healthcare alliance American Healthcare Systems, bringing total investments in Cambridge, Massachusetts-based CompuCyte to $8.6 mil. CompuCyte's first product, the Pathfinder system, "attaches to a lab technologists' microscope and displays on a computer monitor all the areas of a Pap smear slide that have been examined -- as well as areas that were missed," helping to avoid "potentially fatal mistakes that may result from incomplete and/or inadequate screening of Pap smears," the firm says. Currently undergoing tests, the device is expected to become available to hospitals and labs throughout the U.S. this fall...