Contract medical device designer and manufacturer Creganna-Tactx Medical plans to open an office in a business incubator on Cleveland Clinic’s campus.

Most people in Ohio’s biomedical industry would’ve considered 2010 a good year if just one key thing happened — voters renewed the state’s $1.35 billion, 10-year Third Frontier program, which is designed to energize Ohio’s economy by investing in cutting-edge technology. It happened and heads up MedCity News’ list of the biggest highlights of the year for Ohio’s biomedical industry.

Chris Coburn is the captain of Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the corporate venturing arm of the Cleveland Clinic. The 53-year-old fitness enthusiast and his crew have an important job: nurturing inventions that emerge from several thousand scientists and doctors at the nation’s top heart hospital, and guiding them through a years-long process to commercial viability, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Farm plans to staff the office with executives from its New Hampshire offices beginning next week, but eventually hopes to hire a dedicated Cleveland staff.

The Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center incubator building is beginning to fill up.The $19-million, 50,000-square-foot building on the southern edge of the Cleveland Clinic’s main campus opened quietly in April. The goal of the Ohio Third Frontier-backed incubator is to house and feed fledgling companies that are developing products and services to diagnose or treat cardiovascular [...]

Updated 4:36 p.m.Cleveland Clinic Innovations — the corporate venturing arm of the nation’s top heart hospital — is entering its second decade with a first-of-its-kind venture ranking, a brand-new incubator building and a growing portfolio of spin-out companies.AdvertisementPerhaps most impressive, those companies — 33 in all — have attracted more than $340 million in follow-on [...]

Updated 12:20 p.m., June 22, 2010.Israeli medical device company EarlySense Ltd., which recently closed a $13 million fundraising round, has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to sell its EverOn Touch patient-monitoring system in the United States.var page_count = “off”; if (typeof OAS_rdl == [...]

Updated 7:35 p.m.A pre-clinical evaluation of a self-clearing chest tube developed by Clear Catheter Systems Inc. has demonstrated the tube that clears itself works better to drain the chest after surgery than a passive tube of the same size.The Cleveland Clinic spin-off based in Cleveland and Bend, Ore., is applying for U.S. and European market [...]

Want to keep track of developments at the Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center in Cleveland?The center recently launched a Web site that is independent of the Cleveland Clinic, leader of the public/private consortium that is developing the center with the help of a $60 million grant from the Ohio Third Frontier program, among other support.The $19 [...]

Sensible Medical Innovations Ltd., an Israeli company developing a non-invasive device to monitor patients with congestive heart failure, is opening its first U.S. office in Columbus, Ohio, according to the Columbus Dispatch.