The company, co-founded in the early 2000s by spinal surgeon Peter Ullrich, MD, fashions cages of various shapes and sizes for use in procedures that fuse vertebrae in the lower back or neck of sufferers of degenerative disc disease. That’s not so unusual for a spine device company — in Titan’s case, however, these cages are made of titanium.
The company wants to work with the FDA to help build a patient database that compares the results of fusions involving Titan’s titanium versus plastic and other competing implants, Dr. Ullrich explained.
In November, Titan got FDA clearance to market their titanium implants with their new surface technology, nanoLock.
“Our next goal is to become a marketing and sales juggernaut and really push into the industry that way and leverage off of what we’ve already done,” Dr. Ullrich says.
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