Biomedical: Growing Companies

Potential migraine treatments range from pain medications and Botox injections to full-blown surgery. As founder of the American Migraine Center, Bahman Guyuron should know.

877-646-1222
29001 Cedar Road, Suite 326
Cleveland, OH 44124

On Front Street in East Toledo, sandwiched between two abandoned buildings, LexaMed -- a medical and pharmaceutical company -- opened for business with eight employees in 2006. It hasn't looked back.

888-232-5227
705 Front Street
Toledo, OH 43605

Besse Medical Supply in West Chester has accomplished what many small, family-run startups dream of: becoming part of a Fortune 26 company while holding onto family tradition.

800-543-2111
9075 Centre Pointe Drive, Suite 140
West Chester, OH 45069

Meridian makes, markets and distributes a broad range of diagnostic test kits, purified reagents and related products and technologies for a variety of biomedical customers in more than 60 countries.

513-271-3700
3471 River Hills Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45244

As a urological surgeon for OhioHealth, Wayne Poll knew there must be a way to keep his laparoscopic lenses clear without constantly having to stop and clean them. While it took him 10 years to bring that vision to fruition, Poll's FloShield is now in the marketplace.

614-484-5036
1275 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212

CardioInsight Technologies is working to develop the first non-invasive, real-time, beat-to-beat simultaneous mapping solution for treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure.

216-453-5950
11000 Cedar Ave., Suite 210
Cleveland, OH 44106

Akebia Therapeutics is banking on two revolutionary drugs for treatment of anemia, blood vessel leakage and cancer.

513-618-0931
10151 Carver Road, Suite 205
Cincinnati, OH 45242

Athersys is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a growing pipeline of "potential best-in-class therapeutics" it hopes will provide some answers to issues such as heart attacks, obesity and cognitive disorders

216-431-9900
3201 Carnegie Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44115

If it comes time for a biopsy, would you rather make two stops -- first, to your family doc, then to the dermatologist -- or one? The folks at CleveX believe that patients will prefer the latter.

877-253-8911
1275 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212

AssureRx, LLC, based in Cincinnati, is developing the next generation of personalized medicines, including a lab-developed test that will measure and analyze genetic variants in psychiatric medicine.

513-234-0510
7264 Columbia Road, Suite 600
Maineville, OH 45039

Akron-based FMI Technologies is working on a new tool that can peel images of the brain back to the molecular level � where the cell-killing processes of Alzheimer's disease percolate.

330-253-0200
26 S. Main St., Suite 812
Akron, OH 44311

After working with a patient in 1999 whose blood pressure was unstable as plasma seeped out of her blood vessels University of Toledo doctors sought t a treatment. ADS Biotechnology was born.