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36-501: ABPS may refer to: Aditya Birla Public School, Renukoot, Uttar Pradesh, India Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces American Baptist Publication Society American Board of Physician Specialties American Board of Plastic Surgery American Board of Podiatric Surgery Associated Fellow of the British Psychological Society Associate Member of

72-595: A Johnson & Johnson / Cordis company which has licensed ABPS technology. The company, which operates out of Dallas, will design, manufacture and sell implantable bio prosthetic devices. Palmaz also created the largest wine cave in Napa Valley, Palmaz Vineyards . It is entirely gravity operated. Palmaz is married to fellow Argentine Amalia Palmaz and has two children, Florencia and Christian. He lives in San Antonio and Napa, and enjoys collecting vintage Porsches. He owns

108-405: A fictional airline using steam-powered aircraft that was an in-joke among pilots and aviation enthusiasts. The Fuddruckers concept was to offer large hamburgers in which the meat was ground on-site and buns were baked on the premises and hamburgers and other dishes were offered with "lots of fresh sliced tomatoes, onions, lettuce and vats of cheese sauce". In California, Fuddruckers competed at

144-423: A healthy blood vessel from another part of the body is grafted onto the coronary artery, forming a detour around the afflicted region. Due to the high cost and risk of this procedure, an alternative was in high demand. In 1977, Andreas Gruentzig performed the first successful percutaneous coronary angioplasty. In this procedure, a catheter attached to a small balloon is inserted into the afflicted artery. The balloon

180-473: A plan to liquidate all of its existing assets, as opposed to operating in the current form or merely selling off divisions. As of September 11, 2020, there were 80 Luby's and Fuddruckers still in operation. 99% of Luby's stockholders voted for dissolution in November 2020. Luby's planned to close all locations by August 2021. On June 17, 2021, Luby's announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell

216-407: A scaffold of sorts inside the vessels, to hold them open and keep them from occluding. He wrote up his ideas in a manuscript – which became important later as a proof of conception – and started to work on prototypes. He began by sticking pins into a pencil and weaving wire around them, but the structure did not maintain form as it was compressed. He then soldered the wires at their junctions, achieving

252-736: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces Julio Palmaz was born in December 13, 1945, in La Plata, Argentina; Palmaz's parents were of Italian descent, his father worked as a bus driver. Palmaz received his M.D. in 1971 from the National University of La Plata, Argentina. He joined the San Martin University Hospital in La Plata to practice vascular radiology in 1974. He moved with his family to

288-469: Is on hamburgers but other options are offered including chicken, fish and exotic burgers ( buffalo , elk , ostrich , and wild boar ). In 2006, Foxwood executive sous chef Scott Ferguson and Mark Collins made a burger weighing 29.6 lb (13.4 kg) and costing US$ 250, for the Fuddruckers restaurant in the casino. The burger was 18.5 in (470 mm) wide and 8 in (200 mm) tall. At

324-502: Is subsequently expanded, compressing the accumulated plaque to allow increased blood flow. This was a substantial improvement over bypass surgery in terms of invasiveness, but unfortunately restenosis, a recurrence of arterial clogging, occurred in nearly 50% of patients after the balloon was removed. Palmaz got the idea for his stent after listening to a lecture by Gruentzig at a conference in New Orleans in 1978. He had an idea then to put

360-660: The Bangladesh Photographic Society Association of British Philatelic Societies See also [ edit ] ABP (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title ABPS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ABPS&oldid=1223220937 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

396-624: The Boston area to Austin in 2005, it spent $ 1 million and laid off 30 employees to operate more efficiently, according to chief financial officer Matt Pannek. Within six weeks of the move, the company hired 30 new employees for the Austin headquarters. By September 2005 the company employed 80 people in 16,000 square feet (1,500 m ) of space in two temporary offices in the Monterey Oaks Corporate Park in southwest Austin. By December 2005

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432-605: The District Court of Delaware ruled in favor of Johnson and Johnson, declaring that the Palmaz patents had been infringed. The damages awarded for the Palmaz patents were the largest ever in patent litigation history. Within four years of its FDA approval, the balloon-expandable stent was used in over 80% of percutaneous coronary interventions, a virtually unparalleled success. Currently approximately one million stents are implanted annually worldwide. The balloon angioplasty augmented with

468-478: The Expandable Graft Partnership, patented the stent technology in 1985 and presented it to a variety of large companies. Those firms included Boston Scientific, which passed on the technology; and Johnson & Johnson, which eventually licensed the stent technology for some $ 10 million plus royalties. With Johnson & Johnson behind it, and with an additional $ 100 million invested in its development,

504-490: The Fuddruckers franchise business operations to Black Titan Franchise Systems LLC, an affiliate of Nicholas Perkins. As a result, the remaining Fuddruckers locations have remained open past the previously planned closure date of August 2021. The chain offered the Original Fudds Burger in various sizes, of 1 ⁄ 3 , 1 ⁄ 2 , 2 ⁄ 3 and 1 pound (151, 277, 302, 454 grams). The primary focus

540-449: The Palmaz stent was approved for use in peripheral arteries in 1991, followed by approval for use in coronary arteries in 1994; Johnson & Johnson quickly captured 90 percent of the market for stents and bought the patent outright from Palmaz, Schatz and Romano in 1998. Palmaz stent patents were the subject of fierce legal battles brought by Johnson and Johnson against several companies manufacturing stents. After 12 years of litigation,

576-618: The United States in 1977 and spent three years training in radiology at the University of California at Davis' Martinez Veterans Administration Medical Center. He has worked as Chief of Angiography and Special Procedures in the radiology department at the University of Texas Health and Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) since 1983. He currently holds the Ashbel Smith Professorship as a tenured Professor at UTHSCSA. In 2019, Palmaz

612-450: The body to hold a blood vessel or artery open and allow blood to flow more freely. He also secured funding from a somewhat unlikely partner: Phil Romano, an entrepreneur who founded restaurant chains such as Fuddruckers and The Macaroni Grill , offered to put up $ 250,000 in exchange for a stake in the product, which Palmaz began co-developing with Dr. Richard Schatz, a cardiologist at Brooke Army Medical Center. The trio, calling themselves

648-495: The company planned to move into about 16,000-17,000 square feet (1,500-1,600 m ) of space in an adjacent building and turn one of the original Austin facilities into a training center and test kitchen. Pannek said that the central location of the headquarters allows the company to more easily communicate with its franchisees across the United States. Fuddruckers expanded outside of the United States. There were locations in Canada in

684-481: The desired plasticity; however this required two separate metals, which was undesirable for medical use. His solution was inspired by a metal lathe with a structure of staggered openings that a mason had left in his garage: cutting holes in metal tubing would create a collapsible structure that would remain rigid once expanded. Palmaz succeeded in creating a model that he was able to test in animals, including pigs and rabbits, with promising results; he also began shopping

720-448: The device around to medical companies, but the response was lukewarm. In 1983, Dr. Stewart Reuter, Chair of Radiology at UTHSCSA and a mentor to Palmaz, encouraged him to accept a position at the center. Palmaz did so, in part because there he would have access to resources he needed to further his stent development. He eventually succeeded in creating a prototype of a stainless steel, insertable mesh stent that could be expanded once inside

756-1004: The end of 2015, Fuddruckers had 188 locations, with 35 outside the US. The firm has moved its headquarters location several times. Currently, the headquarters is near the northwest district of Houston, Texas . It has been there since the acquisition by Luby's in 2010. From 2005 to 2010, Fuddruckers was headquartered in southwest Austin, Texas ; before that, in North Andover, Massachusetts, before that at Cherry Hill Park in Beverly, Massachusetts, before that in One Corporate Place in Danvers, Massachusetts ; before that, in Lakeside Office Park in Wakefield, Massachusetts . When it shifted headquarters from

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792-445: The expense. Palmaz formed Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces (ABPS) in 1999, with Christopher Banas, as a private R&D enterprise to develop advanced biomaterials for implantable medical devices. In early 2008, Dr. Palmaz, Steve Solomon, and other principals, along with private investors formed Palmaz Scientific to acquire thin-film and related intellectual property, equipment, employees and related assets from Nitinol Development (NDC),

828-399: The famous Porsche 917-023, the car that earned Porsche its first victory at Le Mans in 1970. His son Christian Palmaz owns and flies a 2015 Bell 429 Global Ranger N665PV. Fuddruckers Fuddruckers (sometimes abbreviated Fudds ) is an American fast casual , franchised restaurant chain that specializes in hamburgers . The Fuddruckers concept is to offer large hamburgers in which

864-1200: The franchisee went bankrupt and Fuddruckers left the country. Fuddruckers opened their first Middle Eastern location opening in May 1994 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by Arabian Food Supplies. Fuddruckers opened restaurants in Argentina in 1988; later, however, sales fell and Fuddruckers left the country. In 2013, Fuddruckers opened its first restaurant in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, which later closed. They also opened restaurants in Santiago, Chile and Bogotá, Colombia, all of which have since been closed. In 2014, Fuddruckers partnered with Italian-based franchisee Vinum et Alia to open 10 restaurants across Italy, Poland, and Switzerland. Their first restaurant opened in Varese (Lombardy). They later added locations in Legnano and Casnate con Bernate, Italy, as well as Warsaw, Poland. However, as of 2019, this franchisee

900-443: The high end of the fast-food market against chains such as Flakey Jake's , sometimes with head-to-head competitions in places such as Northridge, California . By 1988, there were 150 restaurants in the chain. Romano left the chain in 1988 to form Romano's Macaroni Grill . In an interview, Romano stated: "I just felt I had done all I could for the concept." Fuddruckers was purchased in November 1998 by Michael Cannon, and later it

936-475: The meat is ground on-site and buns are baked on the premises. As of 2019, Fuddruckers had 49 company-operated restaurants and 107 franchises across the United States and around the world. The company headquarters is in Houston , Texas. On September 8, 2020, Fuddruckers owner Luby's , Inc. announced that they planned to liquidate existing assets, including Fuddruckers' assets, distributing the proceeds to investors after

972-796: The mid-1980s, including Saskatoon and Regina, Saskatchewan. Their first Australian store opening in Brisbane's Eagle Street Pier shopping centre in November 1993, followed by another store in the Logan Hyperdome south of Brisbane in August 1994 (which closed in August 1995, having never made a profit), and a store opening at the Macquarie shopping centre at North Ryde in Sydney in September 1994, all operated under franchise by Butcher Baker Goodtimes Maker until late 1996 when

1008-498: The proposed sale of the chains. On June 21, 2021, Black Titan Franchise Systems announced a deal to acquire Fuddruckers for $ 18.5 million. Fuddruckers was founded as Freddie Fuddruckers in 1979 by Philip J. Romano in San Antonio , Texas, at a location converted from an old bank to a restaurant. He started the chain because he thought that "the world needed a better hamburger". The name derived from "Fudpucker World Airways",

1044-528: The restaurant has been closed. The 2008 financial crisis hit the restaurant industry hard, including Fuddruckers. On April 22, 2010, the parent of Fuddruckers, Austin-based Magic Brands LLC, announced plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It originally planned to sell most of its assets, including Fuddruckers and the Koo Koo Roo brand eateries, to the Tavistock Group for $ 40 million. On

1080-486: The same day, the firm announced that 24 Fuddruckers restaurants would be closed, several of them in the metro Washington, D.C. area. On June 18, 2010, Tavistock was outbid by Luby's for Fuddruckers' assets at auction, with a $ 61 million winning bid. A second estimate was that the sale amount was for $ 63.45 million. Luby's acquisition of Fuddruckers and Koo Koo Roo was finalized in 2010. During 2011, there were controversies with previous franchise owners regarding

1116-428: The time, this was the world's largest commercially available burger. While some Fuddruckers restaurants are company-owned, the majority are owned by individual franchisees. In 2010, there were 135 franchisee-owned Fuddruckers around the United States. In 2011, Fuddruckers had 200 restaurants throughout North America, of which two-thirds were owned by small business owners and 59 were company-operated locations. By

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1152-634: The use of the Fuddruckers brand name. On June 3, 2020, Luby's Board of Directors announced plans to sell all its operating divisions and assets, including real estate assets. This decision was influenced in part by circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Net proceeds from transactions will benefit Luby's stockholders. The company did not have a definitive timeline for future transactions, but expected to eventually wind down remaining operations. On September 8, 2020, Luby's further announced it has adopted

1188-465: The use of the stent has become the preferred treatment for atherosclerosis. However, the stent has not completely done away with restenosis after angioplasty, and improved procedures continue to be sought. The drug-eluting stent , which releases chemicals that inhibit restenosis, has shown marked success and seems to be replacing the bare-metal stent in America, though Europeans have resisted the change due to

1224-752: Was no longer active and all European locations had been shut down. As of June 2019, Fuddruckers had 156 locations across the United States and a further 8 run by franchise partners with one each in Saskatoon and Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; two in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico; one in Caguas, Puerto Rico; and three in Panama City, Panama. An additional 33 locations are licensed in the Middle East, with restaurants in Saudi Arabia, Egypt,

1260-513: Was part of a team awarded the Russ Prize "for innovations in medical devices that enable minimally invasive angioplasty treatment of advanced coronary artery disease." Coronary artery disease is a condition in which the blood vessels to the heart become clogged. It often leads to heart attacks and is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the leading treatment consisted of invasive bypass surgery, in which

1296-454: Was purchased by Magic Brands . In August 2014, Fuddruckers opened the first of its new stores called Fuddruckers Deluxe in Newport News, Virginia , a full-service sit-down restaurant serving traditional and new menu items, with a wait staff, full bar and multiple TVs, although it does not offer different size burgers or a "produce and fixings bar" like its traditional restaurants. As of 2018,

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