Founders : Life Sciences

"You need to come in every day and take swings for the fences," says Mark Forchette, president & CEO of Delphinus Medical Technologies. "That is our culture."

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DeNovo Sciences has come a long way in its first five years, but the Plymouth-based startup can point to one critical juncture in its rapid growth: winning the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition in 2011. That win is why DeNovo Sciences is one of the Gazelle 100, a year-long exploration of the fastest-growing startups in Metro Detroit as part of SEMichiganStartup's Year of the Gazelle series.

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Christine Gibbons is the CEO of Histosonics, a life sciences startup based in Ann Arbor.

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James Koziarz is the president & CEO of Rubicon Genomics, a genetic testing startup based in Ann Arbor.

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James Arps is the general manager of Biotectix, a bio-tech start-up based in Ann Arbor.

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Laura Schrader is the CEO of 3-D Biomatrix, a University of Michigan spin-out based in Ann Arbor.

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Martin Bluth is the co-founder of Genome Dynamics International, a life sciences start-up based in TechTown.

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Nader Najafi is the president & CEO of Integrated Sensing Systems (ISSYS), a bio-tech firm based in Ypsilanti.

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Kalyan Handique is the CEO of DeNovo Sciences, a life sciences start-up based in Plymouth.

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David Bloom is the vice president of products with Hygieia, a medical device start-up based in Ann Arbor.

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Where do great ideas come from? For Eran Bashan, a casual conversation over Shabbat dinner four years ago evolved into both a new invention and a company to market it.

Because the Ann Arbor resident is known for his love of riddles and problems, that evening his friend, endocrinologist Israel Hodish, gave him a doozey to solve: Seek out a better way for diabetic patients to self-test their blood sugar and adjust their insulin levels.

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Bill Greenway is the CEO of Delphinus Medical Technologies, a medical device start-up based in Plymouth.

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Priya Gogoi is the president & co-founder of DeNovo Sciences, a life-sciences start-up based in Ypsilanti.

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Raili Kerppola is the co-founder of ONL Therapeutics, a University of Michigan spin-out based in Ann Arbor.

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Dr. Samuel Gray is the director of BodyPartChart, a health-care education start-up based in downtown Detroit.

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