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U-M engineering students turn class project into Endocutter

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Ann Arbor

What started out as a class project could turn into a career for a handful of University of Michigan students.

Taarif Jafferi, Rahula Rattan, Zach Weingarden and Raghunath Katragadda are all graduate engineering students at U-M who were taking a year-long graduate bio-medical design class. That led to the creation of Endocutter, a new piece of technology with promising commercial prospects.

The students took the problem of what do with bleeding when doctors perform stomach procedures. The new technology helps limit the bleeding and makes these types of stomach procedures less invasive.

"We saw this problem and got pretty excited about this," Jafferi says. "We think this is very commercially viable."

The group of engineering students is looking at licensing out the technology when it is done developing the technology early next year.

Source: Taarif Jafferi, co-founder of Endocutter
Writer: Jon Zemke

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