Edwards Lifesciences Corporation is an American medical technology company headquartered in Irvine, California, specializing in artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. It developed the Sapien transcatheter aortic heart valve made of cow tissue within a balloon-expandable, cobalt-chromium frame, deployed via catheter.[3] The company has manufacturing facilities at the Irvine headquarters, as well as in Draper, Utah; Costa Rica; the Dominican Republic; Puerto Rico; and Singapore;[4] and is building a new facility completed in 2021 in Limerick, Ireland.[5]
History
The Edwards Lifesciences Foundation was originally founded by electrical engineer Miles "Lowell" Edwards in 1958, a graduate of Oregon State University.[6]