A cell culture startup that attracted attention last year for providing the scaffold used in the world’s second-ever artificial trachea implant has landed a $500,000 investment.Columbus, Ohio-based Nanofiber Solutions has received a $500,000 convertible loan from state-backed business development group TechColumbus, Columbus Business First reported.The company’s cell culture products use polymer nanofibers to more accurately [...]

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati are behind a startup that’s developing a medical device to help emergency doctors diagnose a severe type of headache that could be a warning sign for stroke.Xanthostat Diagnostics’ device would analyze cerebral spinal fluid to determine if patients are suffering from sentinel subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a painful headache that [...]

Astronauts can encounter lots of potential health risks during long space flights.And those risks are exacerbated by a lack of access to physicians, limited medical supplies and a small amount of storage on spacecrafts.Add to that high costs – it takes $10,000 to launch one pound of anything to low-earth orbit – and you’ve got [...]

Ohio State University and Ohio University are creating a $35 million venture capital fund aimed at commercializing research that comes out of universities in the state.California-based Dominion Ventures will be the fund’s general partner, according to a statement from the two universities. An official with Dominion wasn’t available for comment.Ohio State plans to contribute $20 [...]

Ohio State University‘s college of pharmacy has entered into a pancreatic research collaboration with National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.The aim of the partnership is to develop new diagnostic biomarkers and therapies for pancreatic cancer, according to a statement from NCKU.The partnership calls for the establishment of a satellite laboratory at the cancer center of [...]

Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus accelerators that invest in healthcare startups are recipients of some of the $760,000 in new grant funds approved by the Ohio Third Frontier Commission this week.Shaker LaunchHouse in Shaker Heights will receive $200,000, Cincinnati initiative Innov8 for Health will receive $160,000 and 10xelerator in Columbus will get $200,000 to fund teams [...]

Fresh off supplying the scaffold for the world’s second-ever artificial trachea implant, Ohio State University spinoff Nanofiber Solutions is hoping to expand its work with artificial organs.The Columbus, Ohio-based company’s technology could be used to create scaffolds for a number of other types of hollow organs, such as intestines, blood vessels and kidneys, chief technology [...]

A two-year-old Ohio State University spinoff’s nanofiber scaffold was used to grow a patient’s own stem cells and then implanted into the patient after his trachea was removed — in an operation that’s being billed as the world’s second successful synthetic trachea transplant.Columbus-based Nanofiber Solutions designed and built the scaffold used in the procedure. The [...]

Ohio State University spinoff EXCMR is preparing for a fourth-quarter launch of a four-site clinical test of its MRI-compatible treadmill for heart-stress testing.The clinical test’s chief goal is to compare the performance of the company’s stress test against competing alternatives and fine-tune the treadmill’s design, plus its installation and servicing processes.“Launching this pilot is an [...]

The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University has received a five-year, $1 million grant to support fellowships for minority medical students.The grant comes from the KeyBank Foundation, and follows another $1 million gift from the foundation in 2007 for the same program, the Plain Dealer reported. The money will go [...]