Class of: 2012

Wei (Allen) Chang

Wei (Allen) Chang (ENG’12) of Duluth, Ga., was named to the 2016 Forbes “30 Under 30” list for manufacturing. He cofounded Vertera Spine, a medical device company based in Atlanta, Ga., and invented the manufacturing process to create a novel porous biomaterial, PEEK Scoria. Vertera’s first product, Cohere, a cervical fusion interbody device, has been FDA-cleared and implanted, and Allen leads efforts in developing lumbar products and future pipeline projects. For more details on Allen’s work, visit www.verteraspine.com.

From the Winter-Spring 2017 issue.