Tangent Medical Technologies, a development stage medical device company, was founded in Ann Arbor in 2009 based on technology exclusively licensed from the University of Michigan??s Medical Innovation Center. The Company??s mission is to improve infusion therapy for patients and healthcare workers with its proprietary, intravenous catheters and associated products. Tangent is led by an experienced, successful management team and the original inventors of the technology. The Company expects to begin generating commercial revenues from its lead product, the NovaCath??Closed IV Catheter System, in 2012.