Pacesetter Systems

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Pacesetter Systems Inc. was a biotechnology company founded by Alfred E. Mann in 1965. The company manufactured various implantable medical devices invented by Robert Fischell and the rest of the team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.[1][2] Those inventions included the first commercial rechargeable implantable pacemaker, which was one of the first pacemakers to use radio waves for telemetry,[3] and the implantable insulin pump. The insulin pump business was spun off into Medtronic MiniMed in the early 1980s. Pacesetter Systems Inc. was purchased by Siemens and then St. Jude Medical in 1994.[4]

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  1. ^ "The Alfred Mann Foundation," Mission and History
  2. ^ Meadows, P., "Technology Transfer and Successful Electrical Stimulation Business," Advanced Bionics Corporation, p. 2.
  3. ^ "Programmable Pacemaker," Spinoff (Publication of NASA featuring commercial applications of space technology), 1996. Accessed February 25, 2007.
  4. ^ "St. Jude buys Siemens cardiac pacemaker business," Health Industry Today - August 1994, Accessed February 25, 2007.
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