ConforMIS Device Gets EU Approval

ConforMIS, a Burlington, MA-based maker of implants for less-invasive knee surgery that I profiled back in November, announced today that it has received European regulatory approval for the second of its four types of implants, as well as the specialized instruments for implanting the device. ConforMIS’s products are already approved in the U.S.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.