Orlando, Florida-based Vestagen Technical Textiles Inc, a medical technology company developing apparel for healthcare applications, raised $7 million in financing. Advent Life Sciences and HealthQuest Capital led the round, which was a planned extension of the company’s previous financing. Vestagen also named Bill Bold as chief executive officer. Bold replaces Dale Pfost, PhD, who was serving as interim CEO and remains chairman of the board.
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Adoption of innovative fabric technology for healthcare worker and patient attire is growing, as more healthcare facilities forego traditional uniforms in an effort to better protect patients and staff from healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). As one indicator of this growth, Vestagen Technical Textiles reports that a variety of healthcare facilities have recently converted to its VESTEX protective uniforms.
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced it has exclusively endorsed Vestagen Technical Textiles, Inc.’s Vestex® Active Barrier Apparel, a protective fabric that combines fluid repellency and antimicrobial technologies embedded into health care worker scrubs, lab coats and jackets. AHA Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of the AHA, awards the AHA Endorsement to products and services that help member hospitals and health care organizations achieve operational excellence.
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Vestagen Technical Textiles, Inc., today announced that it has obtained worldwide rights from Schoeller Technologies AG to certain technologies that are integral to the unique properties of Vestex, the first of its families of active barrier protective fabrics that are clinically proven to prevent or reduce the acquisition and retention of microbes and other contaminants.
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