Surmodics, Inc. Announces Successful Early Clinical Use of its Pounce LP Thrombectomy System

Surmodics, Inc. is a provider of performance coating technologies for intravascular medical devices and chemical and biological components for in vitro diagnostic (IVD) immunoassay tests and microarrays. The Company's segments include Medical Device and IVD. The Medical Device segment manufactures and licenses performance coatings, including surface modification coating technologies to improve access, deliverability and predictable deployment of medical devices and drug-delivery coating technologies to provide site-specific drug-delivery from the surface of a medical device, with end markets that include neurovascular, peripheral, coronary and structural heart. It manufactures vascular intervention medical devices, including drug-coated balloons, and radial access balloon catheters and guide sheaths. The IVD segment manufactures chemical and biological components used in in vitro diagnostic immunoassay and molecular tests within the diagnostic and biomedical research markets.