News Type: Alumni

As vice president of market development at Medtronic, David Giarracco, BME, MSE, finds the keys to his success at the intersection of the technical and personal.

Narrow was selected for the 30 Under 30 honor as a notable entrepreneurs in health care for his clot monitoring technology as well as his adaptive bikes for stroke survivors.

Physician and engineer Ananth Natarajan, MSE ’92, returned to Homewood campus this year as part of an ongoing speakers series to share his experience launching a medical device company.

At their startup company, Switchmate, recent alumni Peng, Dua and Romano draw on their Design Team training as they probe the automatic light switch landscape, and seek a simple installation solution for consumers.

M. Jason Brooke, MSE ’04, and Abhishek Rege, MSE ’05, PhD ’12 recently stopped discussed their experiences in launching a startup company for their portable retinal imager at a recent BME EDGE event in Clark Hall.

BME alumnus Robert Mittendorff ’98 keeps his finger on the pulse of health care technology as a principal at Norwest Venture Partners, where he focuses on investing capital in the field’s most exciting new develop­ments, from medical devices to specialty pharma.

Johns Hopkins BME alumnus Steve Basta heads AlterG, the California company that created the anti-gravity treadmill, as well as a bionic leg mobility trainer.

BME alumni, Jonathan Sorger, is the director of medical research at Intuitive Surgical — a global leader in minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery.

JHU BME alumnus Lawrence Bonassar uses a 3-D printer and injections of living cells to create a replacement ear.