UC Davis Health announced the first startup to come out of its health tech innovation incubator. The company, named WellCent, is a platform that allows patients and caregivers to onboard medical devices into their home and access digital health resources.
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Life sciences giant Johnson & Johnson Innovation announced the opening of a fourth JLABS accelerator in South San Francisco that will accommodate up to 50 startups that span the healthcare landscape. It’s the fourth JLABS to open, following an original location in San Diego, a second in Boston and another San Francisco proper. Another is […]
Israeli drugmaker Teva Pharmaceuticals and the healthcare arm of Netherlands-based Royal Philips have launched a new health tech incubator in Israel called Sanara Ventures – investing more than $25 million in the project over eight years. The incubator’s meant to house and seed startups in the med tech space, according to the Israeli newspaper Globes. It says it’s looking […]
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.
Cloud-based EHR vendor athenahealth is expanding its More Disruption Please accelerator with investments in two new companies and the opening of a new location in San Francisco. In addition, Massachusetts-based athena said it will partner with the Health Information Trust Network, better known as HITRUST, to offer its accelerator companies “verified security assessments” on HIPAA […]
Move over, Boston and San Francisco – Texas seems to positioning as the next biotech hub. Johnson & Johnson Innovation is opening up a new incubator in Houston – following the same template it’s got in place in its existing Cali and Massachusetts centers. It’ll be affiliated with the Texas Medical Center, a massive health […]
Buffalo diagnostics company Empire Genomics is readying itself to acquire new technologies, grow its staff and increase its test offerings. It plans to do so with $1 million in recent financing from Rand Capital and Buffalo-area incubator Z80 Labs. Empire Genomics was launched in 2006 at the Roswell Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. The lab develops high throughput […]
A new 30,000-square-foot incubator opening later this year in South San Francisco aims to make starting a life science company as quick and capital-efficient as starting a tech company. The incubator, which will house up to 50 healthcare startups, is the newest offshoot of Janssen Labs, a component of Johnson & Johnson’s external R&D engine […]
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.
When selecting digital health startups for its second accelerator class in Chicago, Healthbox put a focus on B2B companies addressing the post-reform challenges that hospitals and health systems are facing. Seven companies were chosen, expanding Healthbox’s portfolio to a total of 55 companies. Several are focused on empowering providers to create a better patient experience. […]
Sure, there are tons of startup accelerators and incubators. But that doesn’t mean they’re easy to get into. Some have acceptance rates on par with Ivy League schools! You know that having a solid team and some kind of business plan is important, but what’s going to really make your startup stand out? Here are […]
When Rise Assistive Devices CEO Vadim Gordin tried to buy his grandmother a fork she could use more easily, what he found were forks jammed into bicycle handles. He used his biomedical engineering background to construct and 3-D print what would become the Easy Fork for her. What he thought would be a one-off has […]
Five startups have been selected to join the incubator program at The Fogarty Institute, an education nonprofit based in Mountain Valley, Calif., that mentors medical innovators. Four out of five of these companies–First Pulse Medical, Materna Medical, InPress Technologies and Medical Cue–are attempting to innovate in the maternity/women’s health field. President and CEO Ann Fyfe […]
A successful university business incubator has lots of engaged mentors, is run like a startup and generates buzz and benefits for its local business community. Those are some of the high-level findings of a new venture out of Sweden that’s trying to create an objective way to evaluate business incubators across the world. The team […]
