RTI Surgical is a
medical technology
Health technology is defined by the World Health Organization as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of liv ...
company that was founded in 1998 after spinning off from the University of Florida Tissue Bank
Alachua, Florida
Alachua ( ) is the second-largest city in Alachua County, Florida and the third-largest in North Central Florida. According to the 2020 census, the city's population was 10,574. The city is part of the Gainesville metropolitan area, which had a ...
, United States.
RTI began operations as Regeneration Technologies in Alachua, Fla. In February 1998, the University of Florida Tissue Bank transferred its allograft processing operations, related equipment and technologies, distribution arrangements, and research and development activities to Regeneration Technologies. This spin-off from the University of Florida (UF) is one of the most successful UF technology transfers to date.
In 2012, RTI was a defendant in a civil case involving the body snatching activities of
Michael Mastromarino and other organizations supplying RTI with human tissue and body parts.
The suit would have investigated how RTI ignored the questionable credentials of the organizations that supplied them body parts and tissue by forging consent documents and "cutting open the corpses and harvesting tissue, bone and organs and replacing those body parts with materials purchased at local hardware stores, such as PVC pipes and rubber gloves."
RTI's legal representation argued that the company is “allowed to accept tissue—without any civil liability whatsoever—as long as they do so without actual knowledge of a contrary intent of the donor" but that they are not, in turn, legally required to investigate consent.
The civil case was postponed in September 2012 in order to mediate settlements from RTI for the involved plaintiff families.
Pioneer Surgical was acquired in July 2013 by RTI Biologics, and the company was then renamed RTI Surgical.
In 2020,
Montagu Private Equity
Montagu is a mid-market private equity firm with a specialism in carve-out transactions and other first-time buyout investments. Montagu partners with companies with multi-million dollar enterprise values. Headquartered in London, Montagu also ha ...
acquired RTI Surgical’s OEM business.
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Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
Technology companies established in 1992
Biotechnology companies of the United States
Health care companies based in Florida
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