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Fintan Walton talks to Lise Kagenow, Managing Director of Novarix. Lise explains how her early career prompted her to become an inventor and entrepreneur and set up Novarix as a company. She goes on to talk in more detail about her first invention Stabi-Line™: a patented medical device to stabilise iv infusion lines. They discuss the steps involved in bringing an invention to market - from developing the idea and raising finance, to licensing the product for commercialisation. The interview concludes with Lise talking about the ‘Innovation Advisory Service’ scheme which she established to provide advice to budding inventors.

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Lise Kagenow's background and the ideas behind the inventions.

Fintan Walton:

Hello and welcome to PharmaVentures Business Review face-to-face here in London. On this show I have Lise Kagenow, who is I'd call an Entrepreneur and Inventor, welcome to the show.

Lise Kagenow:

Yeah, thank you.

Fintan Walton:

Lise, you are actually a Director or co-director of a company called Novarix based in Oxford?

Lise Kagenow:

Yeah.

Fintan Walton:

And your origins are quite interesting because I am always interested in talking to people who are both inventors and entrepreneurs can you just tell me a little bit about what your background is?

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Lise Kagenow

Managing Director

Lise Kagenow is Managing Director of the Oxford, UK-based Company Novarix. Following her career as a qualified nurse in Denmark, she gained an MSc in Economics then became Estates Manager for a large pharmaceutical company. She originally moved to Oxford to study for a PhD in Economics. Lise has used this combined experience to become both an inventor and an entrepreneur.

Novarix Ltd

Novarix Ltd is an innovative company delivering new products to benefit the worldwide healthcare sector. It is located in Oxford, UK, which is home to one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals (the John Radcliffe Hospital). The company's first product to market was Stabi-Line, a single-use medical device that stabilizes IV infusion lines to prevent kinking, increase patient mobility and prolong the lifetime of the IV cannula. The company has a product development pipeline focused on addressing other clinical areas and producing efficient and effective medical devices.