An Annual Research Fellowship Grants program was established in partnership with Ethicon.
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, manufacturer of medical devices designed for minimally invasive surgery that became a distinct corporate entity from Ethicon, Inc. in 1992
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Ethicon Inc., manufacturer of surgical sutures and wound closure devices founded in 1949
HLB is responsible for designs as the Motorola NFL Coaches Headset, the first Internet Gas Pump by Gilbarco, the Papermate Liquid Correction Pen, and lifesaving products such as the Ethicon Mammotome Handheld Breast Biopsy System, the ZOLL AED Plus defibrillator, and the CardioVations Heart Stabilizer.
Surgicel is a hemostatic agent (blood-clot-inducing material) made of an oxydized cellulose polymer (the unit is polyanhydroglucuronic acid), manufactured by Johnson and Johnson's Ethicon subsidiary.
He joined J&J as a sales representative for the McNeil Pharameutical division in 1971 and eventually became the head of J&J's Ethicon Endo-Surgery business in 1992.