Brainlab
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Brainlab headquarters in Feldkirchen, Germany
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| Traded as | BrainLAB AG |
| Industry | Medical technology |
| Founded | 1989 in Munich, Germany |
| Founder | Stefan Vilsmeier |
| Headquarters | Munich, Germany |
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Number of locations
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19 (2016) |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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General Management: Stefan Vilsmeier, Rainer Birkenbach, Joseph Doyle, Christoph Pedain |
| Products | Medical technology for image-guided surgery, radiation oncology and medical image exchange |
| Brands | Novalis® Radiosurgery, ExacTrac® Patient Positioning, Curve™ Image Guided Surgery, Airo® Mobile Intraoperative CT, Buzz® Digital O.R., Kick® and Kick® EM Navigation, Brainlab NODE™ Planning Software, Quentry® Image Sharing and Collaboration, Elements™ Software Modules |
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Number of employees
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1300 |
| Website | www.brainlab.com |
Brainlab is a privately held German medical technology company headquartered in Munich, Bavaria that develops hardware and software for radiosurgery, image guided surgery technologies for neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, ENT, CMF, spine and trauma, as well as digital operating room integration and cloud-based data sharing. Brainlab is a key player in the field of radiation therapy and neurosurgery.
Brainlab was founded by CEO Stefan Vilsmeier in Munich in 1989. Vilsmeier, then 17, laid the ground for the company with the proceeds from a book he published about 3D graphics. The first Brainlab product was a mouse-controlled, menu-driven surgical planning and navigation software introduced in 1990 at the University of Vienna. In 1992, Vilsmeier designed and built a tradeshow booth and booked exhibitor’s space at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington, D.C. to showcase the software for the first time.
In 1993, Brainlab developed a linear accelerator-based system for stereotactic radiosurgery using micromultileaf collimators. Three years later, Brainlab entered into a partnership with Varian, Inc., which resulted in a long time collaboration in the field of radiosurgery.
Brainlab expanded into the field of image-guided surgery in 1997 with the VectorVision Neuronavigation System and was the first to develop passive marker technology. In 1998, Brainlab became a public limited company (German: Aktiengesellschaft (AG)) and put in place both a supervisory board, made up of shareholders and the management board, and the managing board (German: Vorstand). The managing board at Brainlab today consists of: Stefan Vilsmeier, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO); Rainer Birkenbach, Executive Vice President Research and Development, Joseph Doyle, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Christoph Pedain, Chief Operating Officer (COO).
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