After Miki Kapoor joined Verana Health in 2018, the company shifted from a tele-ophthalmology startup to a data analytics company. Since then, Verana has raised $100 million in funding led by GV and made its first major acquisition.
GV, formerly known as Google Ventures, led a $100 million funding round in Verana Health. The San Francisco-based company aggregates clinical data for medical research and analytics.
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Despite the trial not showing statistical significance on the primary or secondary efficacy endpoints, the company views the data as supportive of reldesemtiv's Phase III development
The 45-person company is focused on licensing real-world clinical databases from medical academies, organizing the data and building analytics tools to make the information useful to the pharmaceutical and medical device industry.
A couple of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania identified parts of the country where stroke mortality rates are highest. The map, presented at the American Academy of Neurology meeting, found that there can be significant variation from one county to the next and even within one county, according to a statement from the university. […]