Larry Thatcher

TESco Associates, Inc

Founder and President

Founder and President of TESco Associates, Inc.: https://www.tescoassociates.com/

TESco’s founder and President has more than 35 years experience in the medical device industry, focusing on bioabsorbable polymer processing and the development of toughened bioabsorbable systems and bioabsorbable composites. He has been active in the material selection and development of absorbable medical devices from concept to clinical use since 1986. He was recognized by MDDI as one of a hundred notables in the medical device industry in June 2008. He taught eight years at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and currently serves on the advisory board to the Plastics Engineering Department. He is the inventor /co-inventor of several device or material patents, and most recently, in March 2012, for Bioabsorbable Polymeric Composition for a Medical Device. Some of his publications include “OrbusNeich fully absorbable coronary stent platform incorporating dual partitioned coatings” in Euro Intervention, and contributing author to Polymers for Vascular and Urogenital Applications published by CRC Press, and Degradable Polymers for Skeletal Implants published by Nova Science.