Contact: Julie Miller
Phone: 310-437-0544, Ext. 179
Email: julie@sages.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Diatiro Health is SAGES 2024 Shark Tank Winner
Transforming Kidney Transplantation with its Kidney Pod
May 7, 2024 – Los Angeles, Calif. — The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) has announced Diatiro Health winner of its 2024 Shark Tank competition at its annual meeting in Cleveland, Ohio.
The San Francisco-based Diatiro Health’s (https://www.diatirohealth.com/about-us) Kidney Pod is a breakthrough-designated device that ensures kidneys remain optimally cold during transplants, significantly boosting the success rate and making previously unusable organs viable. Backed by the National Kidney Foundation, Diatiro is setting new standards in the field, melding cutting-edge technology with the promise of robotic surgery.
“We are honored to have won the Shark Tank Competition at SAGES 2024,” said Tom Sorrentino, MD, Head of Clinical Development at Diatiro and a general surgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco. “Being recognized by SAGES, the leading society in minimally invasive and robotic surgery, underscores the Kidney Pod’s potential to propel transplantation into a minimally invasive era.”
“The quality of promising, innovative technologies that are coming to the SAGES Shark Tank competition continues to grow,” added SAGES President Dr. Christopher Schlachta. “The ultimate goal of our program is to cultivate and support novel technologies with the potential to have a major impact on patient care. Diatiro delivers on all those fronts while beating out a competitive final competitio
SAGES Shark Tank competition is designed to support clinicians focused on commercializing their innovations through investment capital, including by sale to a third party and not primary scientific research. In partnership with Varia Ventures, SAGES continues to educate its members on entrepreneurism, engage and showcase inventors through the reimagined and funded SAGES Shark Tank, and finance promising startups through SAGES Investment Network Collaborative (SINC). SAGES members can participate in SINC through https://varia.com/sinc/.
Along with Diatiro Health, this year’s finalists included Exero Medical, EZ Suture Systems and Global Hospital, all of which presented their supporting business models to the Shark Tank judges that included Drs. Steven Schwaitzberg, Carla Pugh and Danielle Walsh from SAGES, and Scott Friedman from Varia Ventures. As in previous years, Diatiro’s winning prize money is $30,000.
For more information about SAGES Shark Tank competition, please contact julie@sages.org. For more information about Varia Ventures and SINC, please contact info@varia.com.
About SAGES
The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) is a leading surgical society representing a global community of more than 7,000 surgeons bringing minimal access surgery and emerging techniques to patients worldwide. SAGES’ mission is to innovate, educate and collaborate to improve patient care with a vision of reimagining surgical care for a healthier world. For more information, go to https://www.sages.org.