Avantis Medical Systems, Inc. is a medical device company founded to develop and manufacture catheter-based endoscopic devices. Avantis Medical is focused on delivering cost effective solutions for improved detection and prevention of cancers of the gastrointestinal tract. The company’s Third Eye Retroscope is a novel, disposable, chip-on-catheter digital imaging device, designed to complement visualization provided by most standard colonoscopes for detection of cancer in the colon.The company has an extensive portfolio of patents covering innovative devices based on the convergent technologies of micro-chips, enhanced video processing and catheter based delivery systems