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Loci Orthopaedics is a multi-award winning medical device company specialising in the development of orthopaedic technologies to meet unmet clinical needs in the orthopaedics extremities space.
Evidence based design
Evidence based design

We use evidence based design to solve unmet clinical challenges

Award winning team

We are a world-leading clinical design team who have won multiple awards

Surgical Recovery
Back Pain
Orthopaedic extremities

We specialise in developing extremity orthopaedic technologies

Patients are our Priority

We strive to improve the lives of patients with our revolutionary technologies

Cronic Pain
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About Us

Loci Orthopaedics is an innovative orthopaedic solutions company.

Loci Orthopaedics and the InDx device originated from the BioInnovate program, a structured medical device innovation program in Ireland with proven outcomes. Loci Orthopaedics is based at the Business Innovation Centre in the National University of Ireland Galway.

Senior Leadership Team:
Barry Russell
CEO / Director

An accomplished leader, Barry has over 25 years of international medical device experience spanning roles in R&D, Sales & Marketing & C Suite. Barry graduated from University of Limerick in 1996 with an Honours Bachelor of Technology Degree. Postgraduate he competed an Executive MBA at Dublin City University, a Higher Diploma in International Selling, Dublin Institute of Technology and an Executive Leadership Program at Cambridge University, Judge Business School. A postgraduate R&D role with Boston Scientific Galway set the foundation for Barry’s Med Tech career. Thereafter, commercial customer facing roles of increasing responsibility with Johnson & Johnson. After almost a decade at J&J Barry departed to pursue a personal vision, as founding CEO he established neoSurgical Ltd. Barry led neoSurgical from its Irish inception to international commercialisation scale up and ultimately exit. Barry is a named inventor on several granted patents and proud of his contribution to this area of surgery. Barry brings a passion for medical devices, the potential for their positive human impact on the patient and on those involved in the in business of creating these devices.

Paul Smyth
VP Finance

Paul is an accomplished Finance leader who has over 20 years of demonstrated experience enhancing shareholder value through acquisitions, integrations, and commercial & operational business partnering. He has spent the last 12 years in the medical device industry with roles in both start-up and multi-national companies, and prior to that has held senior finance roles in larger corporations including GE and CRH. He has extensive experience working in VC and PE backed businesses, most recently with SteriPack Medical, where he was part of the leadership team that achieved significant growth through acquisition and organic scaling, culminating in a successful exit to a large PE fund in 2022. Paul graduated with first class honours from Dublin City University, started his career with Deloitte, and is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland.

John Egan
VP Technical Operations

John has over decade working within the medical device sector with extensive experience in the design, development, and production of medical devices. A strong experience core earned through working in small start-ups and large multinational companies, throughout each stage of the development life cycle. John has worked within and led various functions including R&D, Process Development, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory – 510(k) & CE Mark approvals, Clinical, Marketing & Commercial Clinical Use. He has held roles of increasing responsibility with companies including Novate Medical, Creganna Medical, Boston Scientific. This journey culminated in Vetex Medical where he was part of leadership team that successfully exited in 2021. As VP Technical Operations, John’s wide ranging technical and leadership skillset with full product and company life cycle experience are paramount to the successful operations of Loci Orthopaedics.

Board of Directors:
Dr Brendan Boland
Co Founder / Executive Chairperson

Brendan graduated with honours from University College Dublin Medical School in 2006. As a post-graduate, he became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and also a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners. Brendan was a Fellow of the Class of 2014 on the prestigious BioInnovate Ireland Fellowship. Skilled at identifying and determining opportunities in the lifescience and health technology landscapes, he uses his medical and business training to critically appraise very early-stage development opportunities and de-risk potential investment opportunities. As a co-founder of Loci Orthopaedics, Brendan was responsible for the company’s overall commercial and clinical strategy. He led the company’s funding efforts, raising over €9M to date in a mix of grant and equity funding. Brendan is also a named inventor on six granted US patents and the leader in bringing the company’s primary product to clinical trials. As Executive Chairperson, Brendan maintains an active role in the company, optimising the company’s overall business strategy to successfully bring novel technologies to market to meet large unmet clinical needs.

Daniel O’Mahony
Director

Daniel O’Mahony is a Partner at Seroba Life Sciences venture capital fund and brings a wealth of experience from pharma and medtech industry in product development, clinical trials, product commercialisation, strategic planning, licensing, corporate venturing, technology commercialisation and venture capital investment. He held senior appointments at Elan Corporation plc from 1994-2003, where he was involved in technology and product development and in corporate venturing. He established the Technology Transfer Office at NUI Galway in 2005. Daniel graduated with a Ph.D. from University College Cork, holds a business degree in technology management from the Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin and has held academic appointments in Ireland and USA. He currently sits on a number of boards including Perfuze, Loci Orthopaedics, Carballo Group Limited and ATXA Therapeutics. He previously sat on the boards of PQ Bypass (acquired by Endologix), Novate Medical (acquired by BTG), Apica Cardiovascular (acquired by Thoratec), Covagen (acquired by Cilag/Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of the Johnson & Johnson Group), Atlantic Therapeutics (acquired by Caldera Medical inc), Stokes Bio (acquired by Life Technologies), Straatum (acquired by Lam Research Corporation). Seroba is currently investing from its new fund, Fund IV with a focus in pharma /biotech and medtech investments. He has published in several scientific journals and is co-inventor on numerous patent families.

Edna Lazar
Director

Edna Lazar is Principal, Venture Investments at Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc., where she is responsible for investments in MedTech across Europe. Edna brings over 18 years of experience in marketing and business development roles, with startups and multinational corporations, based in Israel and in the US. Prior to joining JJDC, Edna was a member of the Exploration team at Edwards Lifesciences, focusing on strategic investment opportunities within the structural heart disease space. Prior to this role, Edna served as Chief Business Officer at MEDX Xelerator, where she led the identification, assessment, and investment in innovative medical device projects across multiple therapeutic areas.

Dr. Anton Clifford
Director

Anton brings extensive experience in company development, product creation, commercialization and customer relationship management. Uniquely suited to Loci Orthopaedics mission, Anton’s experience of bringing a novel orthopedics product from concept, through US regulatory approval, and into a pivotal US-based clinical trial, will be directly applicable to our future here at Loci. His in-depth technical knowledge will complete an outstanding combination of clinical and commercial acumen that is directly applicable to Loci Orthopaedics. Anton is co-founder and CEO of MoxiMed, an orthopaedics medical device company. He has been a key member of the MoxiMed team that has brought a product from concept to clinical use.

Previous members:
Gerry Clarke
Co Founder / Retired

Gerry has worked consistently in medical devices and diagnostics since the late 1970s, spending ten years in the USA industry sector during that time. He has had a number of increasingly responsible technical roles within Technicon, Sherwood Medical and C.R. Bard/Medtronic, most recently that of senior engineering manager within R&D at Medtronic. His expertise lies in process development, new technology investigation and product design methodologies. He has several patents and trade secrets to his credit and has been charged with IP development at leadership level. A believer in team synergy, he is passionate about innovation that occurs at the boundaries of diverse disciplines. Gerry was a BioInnovate Ireland Fellow 2014, during which he further developed his skills at identifying unmet clinical needs and finding solutions through the application of experience and good engineering practice.

Scientific Advisory Board:
Loci Orthopaedics has a scientific advisory board of some of the world's leading hand surgeons.
Dr. Amy Ladd
Chief of Hand Surgery
Stanford University, US

Dr. Ladd is one of the world’s leading experts in the biomechanics and kinematics of the thumb base joint. She was a fellow at L'Institut de la Main in Paris, France prior to joining the Stanford University faculty in 1990.

Dr. Peter Weiss
Prof of Hand Surgery
Brown University, US

Dr. Weiss is an internationally recognised orthopaedic hand surgeon. He specialises in hand and wrist reconstruction with a special interest in finger and wrist joint replacement surgery.

Prof. Filip Stockmans
Prof of Hand Surgery
KU Leuven, Belgium

Prof Stockmans has numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on hand and thumb base joint surgery. He is one of the most prolific thumb base joint implant users in the world, with the best clinical outcomes recorded and studied of any European hand surgeon.

Prof. Marco Ritt
Professor of Plastic Surgery
Amsterdam University Medical Center

Prof. Ritt is a professor of plastic surgery specialising in hand surgery at Amsterdam University Medical Center. He is also co-founder of The Hand Clinic, the first private clinic for hand and wrist surgery and therapy in the Netherlands.

Patents

US Patent Numbers:
  • US 10265186
  • US 10799365
  • US 11213401
  • US 11399950
  • US 11612500
  • US 11712340
  • US 12161566
  • US 12138173
Japanese Patent Number:
  • 7440535

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How To Contact Us

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Corporate Address

No4 Business Innovation Centre,
National University of Ireland Galway,
Ireland

Visitor Centre

Block 3 Corporate House,
Ballybrit Business Park,
Galway,
H91 KT67

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