Percutaneous Implantable Devices for Chronic Heart Failure Patients

Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019 at 7 PM
CLU Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center, 130 Overton Court, rooms 253/254 (second floor)

As a leading cause of death and hospitalization, HF continues to affect millions of people worldwide. V- Wave Ltd. company is focused on developing percutaneous implantable devices for treating patients with chronic Heart Failure (HF). V-Wave’s vision is to help patients who remain with disabling symptoms or need hospitalization despite optimized medical treatment. V-Wave has developed a proprietary interatrial shunt intended to relieve symptoms, reduce hospitalization, increase exercise capacity and improve the overall quality of life.

Dr. Murtaza Mogri

Dr. Murtaza Mogri is currently the director of business development and market access in V-wave. He completed his Ph.D. in Bioengineering in 2011 at Stanford University focusing on optogenetics and deep brain stimulation (DBS) in Karl Deisseroth's lab. He used light-activated ion channels to control neural circuits, specifically to elucidate the mechanism of DBS as a treatment for Pakrinson's Disease. This work was published in Science and resulted in Murtaza receiving the Sammy Kuo Award for the top neuroscience paper from Stanford in 2009. In his previous career, he was the Senior Product Manager in Medtronic, Data Science Fellow in S2DS, Director of Product Management in Stanson Health, and a Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.

Murtaza graduated with Bachelor's degrees in Bioengineering/ Biotechnology and Math/Computer Science from UC San Diego, where his research focus was in bioinformatics and systems biology. After graduating in 2004, he worked at Nellcor/Tyco Healthcare developing a novel noninvasive medical device, as well as at the NIH doing neuroscience research. At Stanford, Murtaza completed several business and patent law courses, prepared and presented three medical device business plans, and founded a student group that brings together graduate students from across the Stanford campus
around the topic of healthcare.