Ventracor chalks up first revenues
Tuesday, 20 September, 2005
Ventracor (ASX:VCR) has received its first revenues, in the form of a cheque from the University of Maryland Medical Centre as payment for a VentrAssist left ventricular assist device (LVAD) recently implanted in a patient as part of its US clinical trial.
The company previously indicated it would reach the milestone before the end of 2005.
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