By Karin Hofmann

Micrel Medical Devices is a family-owned company founded in Greece in 1980. Its first product, an ambulatory syringe pump, allowed patients suffering from thalassaemia, a rare blood disease that is prevalent among people of Mediterranean descent, to be treated at home instead of in hospital. Following that success, Micrel developed a full range of ambulatory volumetric and syringe infusion pumps for home and hospital care, all with the aim of making the treatment of patients more comfortable.