Danielle Everman had never heard of pelvic prolapse until she started the Medical Device Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Cincinnati.

In an interview, Roger Lucas, a former senior vice president and chief scientific officer for Techne, says he believes Envoy will go public in two years and reach a $3 billion to $5 billion market cap.

University of Cincinnati laryngologist Dr. Sid Khosla and other researchers will use a 5-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue interdisciplinary partnerships studying the causes of severe voice disorders and the most effective ways to treat them.

Multiple scientists spent weeks building a prototype to produce information. On one particular day, Clark notes, their work paid off in the form of a small success.

Cuyahoga County is close to a land deal that could keep a proposed medical mart off Cleveland’s downtown Mall.

Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has weighed in on the proposed merger of Jewish Hospital and Mercy Health Partners. Cordray’s plea: Please wait two months, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Cordray wants to give mediation between Jewish Hospital and University Hospital — both members of the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati — a chance to save the alliance.

The Cleveland Clinic has received a $2.75 million federal grant to study the use of stem cells in treating multiple sclerosis, received a grant of more than $123,000 from NFL Charities to explore treatments for shoulder instability, licensed a system to replace damaged or severed mitral valve chordae in the heart and invested $100 million in digital record-keeping.

The University of Cincinnati will use a $3.6 million grant, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, to research how thinking about physical acts can help stroke patients. A $1.57 million grant will fund ongoing research at Case Western Reserve University to develop a treatment for the eye infection bacterial keratitis.

Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic Surgeons, also known as CVTS, joins the collaborative formalized one month ago between the university, Cincinnati’s University Hospital and the University of Cincinnati Physicians. The partnership thinks it will be able to provide better health care in the Cincinnati area and draw patients who would have left the region for specialized care.

The bulk of the funding will try to develop software to help neuroscience researchers screen speech patterns. The remainder of the grant will develop a speech-monitoring device to help the hearing impaired communicate with others.