This is the tenth in a series of 6-Question interviews with leaders who are challenging conventional thinking in Orthopedics (read other interview here).
Dr. Jay Yadav is the founder of a bold new play in Orthopedics and Spine, MiRus. He is bringing a proprietary new alloy to orthopedics and has big plans to challenge what is possible. Jay has a history of innovation and commercialization in medical devices. Jay is an interventional cardiologist and founder of a number of successful companies which have improved outcomes and have been acquired – CardioMEMS acquired by St. Jude Medical; Angioguard, Inc. acquired by Johnson & Johnson; first investor and director of SMART Therapeutics acquired by Boston Scientific.
I sat down with Jay to ask him a few questions and better understand the MiRus story.
1. How was MiRus founded? Take us back to the start of the company and the inception of the idea.
MiRus’ origin, like many of the best things in life, was serendipitous. One of my companies, Icon, had spent almost ten years developing a novel alloy, Molybdenum Rhenium for medical implants and had made the world’s thinnest coronary stent with a 0.06 mm wall thickn...
