Medtech start-up targets $8bn global market

Working as an advocate for the Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland for close to a decade gave Galway man Tomás Thompson the idea for a new enteral feeding pump system that would be light, mobile and easy-to-use.

“With the association, I’d seen lots of different medical devices on the market. While some of them offered great advantages in terms of mobility and discretion, enteral feeding systems hadn’t really changed much in the past ...