Press Releases

The brave new business of medical entrepreneurship at UNC Kenan-Flagler, featuring TransEnterix president, Todd Pope From Innovation to Income By Nancy E. Oates You always suspected your belly button could serve a useful purpose. TransEnterix found it: a portal to make invasive abdominal surgery

Bariatric surgeon Dr. Enrique Whittwell praises privacy and comfort of new procedure

Laparoscopic surgical expert Dr. Bryan Sandler notes patient’s fast return to full activity, minimal post-surgical pain

Town Center Surgery’s Dr. Monali Misra praises privacy and comfort of new procedure, no visible scars.

Miami Surgeons Perform Two Procedures with One-Incision SPIDER System MIAMI – A general surgeon and a gynecological surgeon at South Miami Hospital recently performed back-to-back operations on a patient while using the SPIDER Surgical System, resulting in the successful removal of both her

TransEnterix Receives Global Entrepreneurial TiE50 Award RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – For demonstrating ingenuity and innovation as a life-science startup company, TransEnterix has received the prestigious TiE50 Award for 2011. The TiE50 Awards are given each year by TiE, the organizer of TiEcon,

Dr. Juan-Carlos Verdeja uses minimally invasive SPIDER® Surgical System which leaves no visible scar

Medical Device Luminaries Receive SpotLight Award at SEMDA 2011 Conference ATLANTA – Todd M. Pope, President and CEO of TransEnterix, Inc., and Given Imaging have received the 2011 SEMDA SpotLight Awards. Pope and Nachum (Homi) Shamir, President and Chief Executive Officer of Given Imaging,

Dr. Emma Patterson finds new technology minimizes invasiveness; patient reports no scarring, fast recovery

Enhanced design delivers added strength, precision and ergonomics — through tiny incision the size of a dime