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Opportunities Across Valves in the Heart![]()
Foldax is laser-focused on delivering on our mission of revolutionizing the industry with the first successful biopolymer heart valve, ultimately improving the lives of millions of patients worldwide
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Company
Foldax
Headquarters
Salt Lake City, UT
Management
Ken Charhut, Executive Chairman
Description
Foldax has reinvented every aspect of the artificial heart valve – from material to design to manufacturing – to develop surgical and transcatheter valves designed to last a lifetime that address historical tradeoffs. They have engineered a proprietary biopolymer at a molecular level – called LifePolymer™ - for use specifically in the human heart, and computer-designed a valve from that material to overcome the substantial strains of the human heart. The new LifePolymer material enabled the company to create ultra-thin yet strong leaflets that can rapidly open and close, enabling excellent hemodynamics
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