Pacesetter Systems Inc. was a biotechnology company founded by

Alfred E. Mann Alfred E. Mann (1925 – February 25, 2016), also known as Al Mann, was an American physicist, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Early life and education Mann was born and raised to a Jewish family in Portland, Oregon. His father was ...

in 1965. The company manufactured various implantable medical devices invented by

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and the rest of the team at the

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Applied Physics Laboratory, or APL) is a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center (UARC) in Howard County, Maryland. It is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University and emplo ...

. Those inventions included the first commercial rechargeable implantable pacemaker, which was one of the first pacemakers to use radio waves for telemetry, and the implantable insulin pump. The insulin pump business was spun off into

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in 1983 and then acquired by

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in 2001. Pacesetter Systems Inc. was purchased by Siemens and then St. Jude Medical in 1994.

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