University of Utah Graduates First Startup from Medical Accelerator

Less than a year after launching its one-of-a-kind Medical Accelerator, the University of Utah is graduating its first research-based company from the facility. The company is Catheter Connections, which produces an infection-control device that protects patients from infection during intravenous infusion therapy. The device has the potential to prevent thousands of infections and deaths caused by contaminated IV catheters and IV administration sets in hospitals in the U.S.

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