Ep 288 - Perfuze CEO lays out the challenge – and the promise – of building a new stroke aspiration device

In this episode of DeviceTalks Weekly, Tom Salemi talks with Wayne Allen, the co-founder and CEO of Perfuze, an Irish company developing a novel new way of blood clot aspiration. Allen and his co-founder already executed one successful exit earlier in their careers. Can they find success again with Perfuze?

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MassDevice Editor Chris Newmarker opens up the podcast with this week’s top stories from the pages of MassDevice – Masimo, Danaher, ResMed, Johnson & Johnson MedTech, and Medtronic.

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Chapters

• (00:02:00) - Quick recap of DeviceTalks Minnesota
• (00:07:05) - MassDevice’s Orthopedic Device Companies Special Report for 2026
• (00:08:20) - Masimo shareholders give green light to $10B acquisition by Danaher
• (00:09:56) - ResMed enters merger agreement to acquire Noctrix Health for $340 million
• (00:14:03) - Johnson & Johnson says Ottava surgical robot met endpoints in pivotal bariatric surgery study
• (00:15:45) - Medtronic merges Cardiac Surgery, Aortic units into Cardiovascular Surgery business
• (00:19:45) - FOMO Studio – Yossi Bar, CEO, LEM Surgical
• (00:31:22) - Keynote Interview- Wayne Allen, CEO, Perfuze