One of the immutable rules of device company development is that success takes many paths. No matter the clinical space a company starts out in, it is bound to encounter unexpected obstacles, including the possibility of having to redirect efforts to apply its technology to a different clinical area altogether. That, in a nutshell, is the story of Lausanne, Switzerland-based Symetis SA.
Now among the most promising of an emerging group of second-generation transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) companies, Symetis started as a cell therapy company. However, its initial technology failed, and...