Sanovas: Disrupting The MIS Market

There’s tremendous potential for growth in minimally invasive surgeries, but successfully tapping into that market requires broad expertise. In an exclusive interview, Larry Gerrans, co-founder and CEO of medical device developer Sanovas, talks about his formulated approach to developing technologies, launching new companies, and disrupting the status quo.

A series of medtech start-ups are poised to change the way medicine is practiced in a variety of specialties, and the disruptive technologies fueling them are coming from Sanovas Inc., the medical device developer founded in 2011. Sanovas is led by co-founder and CEO Larry Gerrans, who has a track record of success in previous stints at Johnson & Johnson/DePuy, Stryker Corp., and Smith & Nephew, among others. Gerrans is also known for helping to usher in new technologies, devices, and techniques in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in the 1990s, and it is his expertise in this area that is playing a major role at Sanovas.

Sanovas has lofty goals, but at their heart is the simple strategy of developing and commercializing technologies that address unmet clinical needs. It has patents for MIS devices designed to...

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