OVESCO ENDOSCOPY AG
Ovesco Endoscopy AG is a medical device company specializing in the fields of flexible endoscopy and endoluminal surgery. OVE develops, manufactures, and markets innovative products for the treatment of gastrointestinal disease. Its products stand for therapeutic efficacy and efficient application. Based on the strong background in medical research and development, OVE is continuing to extend its product portfolio with deeply innovative medical devices and procedures.
Ovesco’s business and innovation has been acknowledged through several awards and prizes. ZIM (the German “central innovation programme for SMEs” with a strong focus on innovation-to-market) awarded Ovesco the first spot in their innovation awards 2014 for developing new and innovative clipping techniques within their funding scheme. The ZIM-funded project resulted in two successful products: the FTRD System for treatment of colon cancer and the OTSC Proctology for fistula treatment. In November 2015, we were among the top 3 in the “Hidden Champion Awards”, which honours exceptional economic achievements of German SMEs.
Key persons
Mrs. Bettina Wehrstein is an engineer and mainly in charge of administration in this project. That means she assists in reporting, scheduling, organizing and managing the resources of the Ovesco work packages.
Mr. Gabor Conrad is a graduate engineer and R&D manager with more than 5 years of experience in design and development of medical devices. He is involved in ambitious research projects and the leading person to receive FDA approval for HF instruments. He collected substantial experience in industrial and academic R&D as project manager and will be the project manager for Ovesco’s contribution to this project.
Dr. Sebastian Schostek is Vice President of Ovesco’s Diagnostic Systems division and responsible for R&D of medical micro devices. He passed his studies on Engineering Physics / Microsystems Engineering at Munich University of Applied Science with distinction and received a Ph D degree (summa cum laude) from the Faculty of Medicine of Tuebingen University. His work has led to a number of publications, patents, lectures, and awards. Since 2003, Sebastian Schostek was working for Novineon in the fields of technological and medical research, medical product development, project management, contract research, and business consulting. He joined OVE in 2011 as head of its Diagnostic Systems division. Since then, Ovesco intensified their research activities towards medical electrical devices, the first of which reached the market in 2015 (DC current impulse generator for intraluminal OTSC clip fragmentation).
Chi-Nghia Ho is Vice President of Ovesco’s Therapeutic Devices division and responsible for R&D of medical instruments and Deputy Quality Management Representative. He is a graduate medical engineer with more than 12 years of experience in project management, development of medical devices and risk management.
From 2003 to 2006 he worked at IHCI – Institute of Healthcare Industries, Steinbeis University Berlin, Germany, as a scientific co -worker involved in several research projects. During the same time, he also worked for novineon Healthcare Technology Partners GmbH as an R&D engineer. Within the scope of a BMBF funded project, he developed an active implant for the treatment of urinary incontinence and an active orthosis for supporting the human locomotion system. In his diploma, he developed and designed a novel tactile instrument for minimally invasive surgery based on the QFD method.
Besides publications, patents and lectures, he received the German Körber-Foundation Award twice in a row and the BMT Award at the annual Conference of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering in 2003 for his work. In 2005 poster price for the OTSC System at the annual conference of the German Society for Endoscopy and Imaging Procedures (DGE-BV). Together with Prof Dr. A. Meining, University Hospital Ulm, Germany, he received the Innovation of the Year 2017 Award within the scope of the ESGE (European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) Days 2018 in Budapest for the development of a new method for bougienage of stenosis and strictures in the upper GI tract (BougieCap).