Meet MassChallenge’s 2020 healthtech cohort
The Boston-based accelerator will match 27 health tech startups with industry leaders for the six-month program.
Here is MassChallenge’s 2019 healthtech cohort
Participants in the Boston, Massachusetts-based program will take part in a six-month curriculum that partners the companies with larger Champion organizations that support the startups with product pilots, research assistance and potential investments
OSF Innovation pairs up with MassChallenge to aid healthcare startups
OSF Innovation, which is part of Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare, has signed an agreement to be a sponsor of PULSE@MassChallenge, a program that assists digital health entrepreneurs.
MassChallenge has launched a digital health accelerator
The PULSE accelerator is geared for later stage digital health companies and is part of a push to make Boston a digital health hub.
MassChallenge launches Israeli outpost; plans to foster 100 startups over next two years
MassChallenge Israel will foster about 50 companies per year. By contrast, MassChallenge Boston has a class of 128 each year, and MassChallenge London has 90.
Remotaid’s wireless fetal heart rate monitor could help prevent stillbirth
It’s pretty shocking how prevalent late-term stillbirth still is – about 1 out of 160 fetuses die after 20 weeks or more of gestation. This translates to more than 25,000 losses out of about 4 million American pregnancies each year. Remotaid is developing a non-ultrasound fetal heart rate monitor that can remotely alert the doctor if there’s any […]
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
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.
2 medical devices, a wound-healing therapy and an example of good design win top MassChallenge prizes
A Johns Hopkins University medical device spinoff designing a safer vascular access port for kidney dialysis was a top winner of this year’s MassChallenge awards. Hemova Medical was the one healthcare-related company among five $100,000 winners at Wednesday’s awards ceremonies. Founder Brandon Doan told me this summer that the company was testing its device in […]
9 of MassChallenge’s 26 finalists chasing $1.5M are healthcare or life science startups
Next Wednesday, startups participating in the MassChallenge accelerator will compete for nearly $1.5 million in cash awards. MassChallenge chose 128 startups back in May to take part in the four-month accelerator program, and 26 of those will advance as finalists to Wednesday’s awards ceremony. They’ll have 15 minutes to convince a panel of judges that […]
Tiny traps disguised as human cells snap up viruses in a new take on anti-viral therapy
Viral infections are pesky, sneaky things. The infectious agents that cause maladies like influenza, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and Ebola hijack living cells and replicate, making it hard to destroy them without also harming an organism’s cells. And, they mutate to find new ways to attack cells. Erez Livneh and his small team at Vecoy Nanomedicines […]
Sensors and smartphones bring the baby monitor into 2013
This company has a tempting and comforting value proposition for new parents: around-the-clock baby monitoring without so much sleep deprivation. Sensible Baby, which was born out of Startup Weekend Boston just three months ago, is hoping its high-tech onesie could calm some of parents’ anxiety around sudden infant death syndrome. SIDS is the leading cause […]
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
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 new Rhode Island firm, peptides hold hope for disease-altering cystic fibrosis treatments
It’s been nearly two-and-a-half decades since the gene associated with the inherited disease cystic fibrosis was discovered, paving the way for disease-modifying drugs. In that time, only one such drug has been approved in the U.S. and Europe — Vertex’s Kalydeco. And that drug is only approved for the 4 percent of CF patients who […]
Biotech, meet service provider. This startup strives to streamline the process of outsourcing
The “virtual” business models that have become common in many biotech startups may allow companies to operate with less capital, but they also present their own set of challenges. One of those is finding quality vendors to conduct research and development, clinical trials and other services, and managing those relationships. “There’s high turnover in the […]
Advice for mobile health app startups looking for early patient testers: Just think social
When it came time to test the first version of its new mobile app for people with migraines, the team at Ubiqi Health assumed that physician referrals would be the most important avenue for initially recruiting patient users. The team learned quickly that although physician buy-in is an important piece of a long-term strategy, doctors […]
MassChallenge founder: A widening “funnel of experimentation” is giving rise to accelerators
Akhil Nigam and John Harthorne left their jobs at Bain & Company in 2009, with the U.S. economy in the dumps, feeling an urge to help restore focus on entrepreneurs as society’s great creators of value. With the help of sponsors including Fidelity, Verizon, Microsoft and American Airlines, they now run MassChallenge, a startup contest […]
4 healthcare startups that could help people hurt in the Boston Marathon bombing
Many healthcare entrepreneurs start companies for the most altruistic reasons: to help. A family member who had Alzheimer’s motivated Elli Kaplan to found Neurotrack. Jared Heyman built CrowdMed after watching his sister search for three years for a diagnosis for her debilitating symptoms. Four startups that have applied to be in the 2013 MassChallenge class […]