![]() ![]() “Only two have gone through the full IDE PMA process with prospective, randomized human critical trials to show that they’re autograft replacements and not autograft extenders. “There are over 400 approved bone graft material products being promoted for use in the U.S.,” Dr. We’re able to leverage that in the marketplace.” “It means we’ve proven prospectively with level 1 data that our product is safe and effective. From his perspective, Cerapedics’ Class III status delivers the sort of trust and legitimacy that nearly all of their competitors can’t match. “The challenge with a Class III device is that it takes both an IDE and PMA, and that can take companies upwards of $20 million and four to five years to complete,” Kashuba said. (Wright Medical’s AUGMENT® is also a PMA/Class III bone grafting product, though for a different indication: ankle and hindfoot arthrodesis.) Accomplishing this took years of stringent human clinical trials and a significant financial investment. Instead of being one of myriad Class II bone graft devices that pass FDA clearance quickly and easily by making small adjustments to otherwise nearly identical products, Cerapedics is one of only two companies with FDA Class III bone graft technology on the market for use in the spine. Marx now sell as one of its greatest assets. The chief reason i-FACTOR took so long to be commercially available in the U.S. ![]() If you want to develop an innovative product, you can’t be worried about putting the time and money behind data and clinical studies.” “With Class II device clearances, there’s an incremental tweaking of many products that flood the market and cause pricing issues and a lack of differentiation. “I’m a firm believer that there are no shortcuts in business or life,” said Kashuba, the former President of Biomet’s Spine & Bone Healing Technologies. Marx joining Cerapedics in 2013, they weren’t with the company during the early days of i-FACTOR’s development, but heading a company whose only product took more than a decade to commercialize seems to have imparted a philosophy focused on waiting to bring something truly new, safe and effective to the bloated orthopedic market to differentiate. Marx’s estimation, it took 12 years between the development of Cerapedic’s i-FACTOR bone graft product and commercialization in the U.S., which came after achieving FDA’s Premarket Approval (PMA) for cervical spine surgery in late 2015. Marx serves as the President and COO and Kashuba’s role is CEO at Cerapedics, an orthopedic device company that offers the peptide-enhanced bone autograft replacement product i-FACTOR. Marx, Ph.D., and Glen Kashuba are two orthopedic device executives well-versed in the art of patience. retaliated by launching two drone strikes against suspected ISIS-K terrorists, one of which ended up killing 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children.Jeffrey G. military's mass evacuation at the Kabul airport, suicide bombers killed 183 people, including 13 U.S. Embassy there to evacuate, Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that intelligence did not indicate the Afghan government would quickly collapse – despite reports stating that is exactly what the intelligence predicted. The president also falsely claimed that "no one's being killed" in Afghanistan despite reports at that time of at least seven deaths amid the chaos at Kabul's airport. 18, 2021, three days after the Taliban seized the capital of Kabul and forced the U.S. Just a month earlier, Biden told Americans that the likelihood of a Taliban takeover was "highly unlikely." 15, 2021, essentially winning the war 20 years after their ouster by U.S.-led forces. Biden’s decision to pull troops from Afghanistan faced widespread global backlash after Taliban insurgents retook the country in a matter of days on Aug. ![]()
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