UT Southwestern, UT Arlington to develop magnetic sur...(used magnets to hold studs on their lips...),Health

"The team had many technical challenges to overcome during the invention and development of this new device platform," says Dr. Raul Fernandez, project manager for TMAC. "We relied heavily upon ingenuity and teamwork to bring the project to this point, and it has been very rewarding.

"In addition to high-caliber design work, we have had a cohesive medical-engineering team focused on putting something useful in the hands of surgeons and potential commercial partners; to this we owe our collective success. Moving forward, we are eager to work with a company with the stature of Ethicon Endo-Surgery to refine the technology and put a novel suite of surgical tools in the operating room."

Karen Licitra, company group chairman for Cincinnati, Ohio-based Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., said, "We are excited about the opportunity to co-develop the MAGS technology with the University of Texas. The collaboration between the clinical and engineering teams at UT is very much in line with our approach to achieving our vision of transforming patient care through innovation. We believe this partnership will help enable us to collectively explore the benefits of this technology for patients and clinicians."

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