Anthony Andreacchi, Ph.d.
Vice President,
Operations
Amaranth Medical
Singapore
Biography
Dr. Andreacchi serves as vice president of operations for Amaranth Medical, Inc. He has over 20 years of experience in the medical device field, and has worked for Abbott Vascular, Guidant, Lifescan (Johnson & Johnson), and STS Biopolymers (acquired by Angiotech). Immediately prior to joining Amaranth, Dr. Andreacchi was senior manager of research and development at Abbott Vascular. There he managed the advanced drug-eluting stent programs, drug-coated balloons for coronary and peripheral treatments, stent development and process engineering, and the test method development teams. At Guidant, Dr. Andreacchi developed the manufacturing process for the ML™ Vision stent and subsequently all their cobalt-chromium-based stents. He was instrumental in the technical development of the Xience™ V drug-eluting stent, and has managed the pilot-scale and manufacturing operations at Guidant and STS, respectively. Dr. Andreacchi holds more than 30 US and international patents in the areas of drug-coated balloons, drug-coated stents, medical device coating equipment, automation, and stent electropolishing. Dr. Andreacchi graduated from Arizona State University with a BSE in biomedical engineering, and holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester (NY).
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