A company's journey from launch to acquisition is rarely a straight path. It involves overcoming many challenges and obstacles, especially for a pioneering gene therapy company. In this special report, Spark Therapeutics' journey offers some interesting insights into the evolution of a life science business and how it finds an exit.
Bainbridge Health has raised about $3.5 million in seed funding to date, including $1.6 million from BioAdvance, Chestnut Street Ventures and, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Here's a look at some of the most intriguing biopharma news developments this week from an investment in a new approach for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease to reports highlighting flaws in the FDA's accelerated drug and device approval programs.
Simply put, working together is better than working alone. At MedCity CONVERGE, three panelists discussed an organization based on the idea of collaboration: the Philadelphia Coalition for a Cure, which is seeking to put an end to brain cancer.
Ostiio has developed a distractor device used in distraction osteogenesis to increase bone for children with craniofacial defects.
The ACO will cover more than 1,100 Children's Hospital of Philadephia physicians who care for Aetna commercial plan members up to age 19 in the greater Philadelphia area.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Perhaps like children themselves, pediatrics often is misunderstood by others in the healthcare industry. "People think the pediatric market is small," Patrick K. FitzGerald, the first-ever vice president for entrepreneurship and innovation at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said Tuesday at MedCity CONVERGE in Philadelphia.
Survey results reported that the majority of respondents, 83.1 percent, said they worked when they were sick at least once in the past year
Innovation is becoming as important as research to academic medical centers all over the country, which is why the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia brought in Patrick K. FitzGerald to the newly created position of vice president for entrepreneurship and innovation last month.
This is the first of a two part series on the Pediatric Medical Device Consortia It’s been about a little more than one year since the Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium got started. In a recent interview with Matthew Maltese, the executive director and principal investigator of the group and Director of Biomechanics Research for Anesthesiology […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
For all of the interesting applications for 3D printing in healthcare, its potential for pediatrics is the most compelling. It offers a way for medical devices to be customized for children who may have any number of developmental disorders that make simply adapting an adult medical device for kids impractical. A startup that wants to […]
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is working with DreamIt Ventures through its Open Canvas@CHOP program to identify enterprise software applications and commercially viable companies. It recently selected two companies from the pediatric hospital that will go through the one-year program, including Haystack and 3D Pediatrics. The security analytics company was co-founded by CHOP Chief Medical Information […]
A futurist report on public health I wrote about last week had a lot of references to the likely impact of climate change, particularly hurricanes and droughts. But a new study suggests another reason why climate change, particularly global warming, should be a public health concern: kidney stones. Higher temps increase dehydration and that concentrates […]
One of the interesting applications for pediatric telemedicine is ophthalmology, where specialists are spread thin or don’t exist at all in many communities. Similar to teleradiology, non-physicians could be used to screen images to spot potential anomalies that need more urgent attention. A study by Dr. Graham E. Quinn, professor of ophthalmology at the Children’s […]
A Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia spinout with the potential to be the first to win U.S. FDA approval of a gene therapy is now funded through the rest of development of its lead treatment for inherited blindness. Spark Therapeutics is in the middle of a Phase 3 clinical trial that will determine whether the gene therapy […]
