Press Releases
The following are our corporate Press Releases to help provide you with recent information about BDC Laboratories.
- September 22, 2011
BDC Laboratories Collaborates with Blockwise Engineering for Stent and Transcatheter Heart Valve Device Testing Services
BDC Labs is pleased to announce that they have formed a relationship with Blockwise Engineering, LLC. BDC has acquired Blockwise Engineering radial compression stations (Iris Clamp technology) to perform stent radial strength and stiffness testing services. This new technology will continue to expand BDC’s functional GLP testing capabilities of stents, stent grafts, and transcatheter heart valve devices.
- June 14, 2011
BDC Laboratories Releases Stent, Stent Graft, and Transcatheter Heart Valve Simulated Use Test Systems
Endovascular stents, stent grafts, and transcatheter heart valve, (TAVI) devices provide enhanced methods for clinical treatment of cardiac and vascular disease. Further research and product development is currently ongoing worldwide to address complications associated with these devices. BDC Laboratories has released new technology to aid the medical device industry with their product design testing by providing physiologic simulated use test systems.
- May 20, 2011
BDC Laboratories Releases Transcatheter Heart Valve Device Testing Technologies
Positive clinical outcomes for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) from clinical trials presented at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the EuroPCR 2011 annual meetings were significant for the high-risk patient, ineligible for surgery with aortic valve stenosis. Further research and product development is currently ongoing worldwide to address complications associated with TAVI. To assist with this research effort, BDC Laboratories has released several technologies aiding medical device companies with their product testing for transcatheter heart valve devices.

