Stratos

Advanced drug delivery system for patient-controlled analgesia

“From the outset, we knew that we had a strong internal mechanical team, but would need a flexible and experienced electrical and software partner.  Stratos was selected after conducting diligence on several firms.  They have become an extension of our engineering group whereby they design and solve problems in real time alongside our team throughout the development process.”     

VP Engineering, AcelRx Pharmaceuticals

Located in Silicon Valley, AcelRx Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of acute and breakthrough pain. AcelRx was founded to solve the problems of post-operative intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA) by addressing the unmet medical need to reduce the side effects of morphine, address the invasive IV route of delivery and eliminate the inherent potential for programming and delivery errors associated with the complexity of IV PCA pumps. The company had a strong mechanical engineering team but had limited software and hardware technical resources to respond to the product development challenges associated with programming and delivery errors. AcelRx turned to Stratos, who represented a similarly creative approach and technical depth, to respond to the challenges of electrical and software engineering solution development.