"...That’s where TARIS Biomedical, launched in 2008, comes in to the picture. It is developing a way to deliver a drug directly into the bladder and keep replenishing its supply so the drug can do its job. In a May 16 interview, CEO Sarma Duddu told me that the key to TARIS’s solution is a device, containing the drug, that goes through the urethra like a string of spaghetti and turns into a small pretzel once it gets to the bladder."

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