Creganna-Tactx Opens Facility at the Cleveland Clinic

Creganna-Tactx Medical is opening an office at the Cleveland Clinic’s, Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center (GCIC). The GCIC, located on the Cleveland Clinic’s main campus in Cleveland, Ohio, is an incubator facility supporting the development and commercialization of cardiovascular innovations and medical technologies.

Made possible through a $60 million grant from Ohio’s Third Frontier Project, the GCIC was founded in 2007. The consortium is led by the Cleveland Clinic and comprises Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Toledo and University Hospitals of Cleveland, along with leading industry economic development partners.

According to Creganna-Tactx officials, the to open an office in the new incubator was intended to support companies commercializing innovative medical device technology. The office will provide product development support to early stage companies, in addition to linking Creganna-Tactx’s customers to the leaders in medical innovation and healthcare delivery.

“Having Creganna-Tactx Medical as part of the Clinic team is an important milestone for us. They will provide benefit to GCIC companies and will collaborate with Clinic innovators as we jointly work to develop products that benefit patients in need,” said Chris Coburn, executive director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations

From this strategic location on the grounds of the Cleveland Clinic, the company can facilitate connections to industry leading physicians and provide its customers with enhanced design and development support, end-user feedback, device testing and support for pre-clinical studies and clinical trials. This service will be further bolstered by the company’s recent joint venture agreement with Boston Biomedical Associates (BBA), which will work in partnership with Creganna-Tactx Medical to support customers with clinical, regulatory and quality affairs.

“This move strategically positions Creganna-Tactx Medical to offer our customers complete support along the full-product lifecycle. Working with Cleveland Clinic’s GCIC, we can help bridge the gap between the designer and end-user physician in the development process,” said Randall Sword, business development director at Creganna-Tactx Medical

Headquartered in Galway, Ireland, Creganna-Tactx Medical provides contract design and outsourced manufacturing services to medical device companies. The firm employs more than 1,000 people worldwide and has design and manufacturing operations in the United States, Singapore and Korea.