Last deal

$25.31M

Amount

Series C

Stage

22.05.2015

Date

3

all rounds

$63.29M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

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About Company
NeuWave Medical develops energy-based medical devices for minimally invasive treatments.

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founded date

01.01.2004

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series C

IPO status

Private

Description

Founded in 2004, this Wisconsin-based company specializes in creating high-quality, clinically relevant solutions for serious medical conditions. With a team of engineer-physician founders, NeuWave Medical combines technical expertise and clinical insights to design tools that deliver energy to the human body. Their minimally invasive microwave ablation systems have gained recognition and are preferred by leading physicians and medical centers worldwide.
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Fred Lee
Fred Lee

Fred Lee

Dr. Lee is the Robert Turrel Professor of Medical Imaging, an abdominal radiologist and Senior Vice Chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an expert in the field of tumor ablation. Dr. Lee is the founder of the clinical and research tumor ablation program at UW Madison, one of the first such programs in the USA. As an early pioneer in the field of tumor ablation, Dr. Lee has enjoyed extensive NIH and industry extramural support and has published on all aspects of thermal ablation products and techniques. He is the lead inventor and patent holder on the commercially available FDA cleared RF Switching ControllerTM (Covidien, Boulder, CO). Dr. Lee co-founded the International Tumor Ablation Working Group, the first worldwide forum for physicians interested in tumor ablation.

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Paul Laeseke

Dr. Laeseke is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Medical Scientist Training Program (combined MD/PhD degree program). He performed his doctoral work on multiple-applicator tumor ablation devices and techniques, has lectured nationally and internationally, and has authored numerous manuscripts, book chapters, patents, and abstracts on the subject. Dr. Laeseke has extensive pre-clinical and clinical research experience, and will be starting his radiology residency at Stanford University after completing a surgical internship at Maine Medical Center in Portland, ME.

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Paul Laeseke

Christopher Brace
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Employee Profiles
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Rich Schefelker

Vice President, Engineering

Paul Laeseke

Director, Clinical Affairs & Co-Founder

Christopher Brace

Christopher Brace

Co-Founder

Daniel Sullivan

President, CEO

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