MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine spotlight: Pitch Perfect Life Science track (video)
A video from the conference spotlights startup pitches and Q&A with judges in the Life Science track of the Pitch Perfect contest.
What’s coming up at MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine Day 3?
The final day of the conference, Friday, December 11, includes a panel on precision medicine investment trends, a look at clinical trial design innovation and the life sciences track of our Pitch Perfect startup contest. Register now!
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Which startups will present at MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine Pitch Perfect?
Among the areas of interest for companies presenting at Pitch Perfect at INVEST Precision Medicine are clinical stroke detection, making medical research more inclusive, using technology to accelerate the pace of clinical trials, developing more patient friendly drug delivery systems for reconstitutable drugs, and more.
Ebola Watch: Biomeme’s smartphone diagnostic to be used to track Ebola virus in West Africa
The race to contain the Ebola virus is getting some new tools in the form of Biomeme’s smartphone-enabled diagnostic. At DreamIt Health’s demo day in Philadelphia today, CEO Max Perelman said a few of the devices were being deployed to West Africa to track the disease and could soon be used in Ebola clinics. The […]
How could mobile health tools ease the Ebola crisis?
As public health officials grapple with the enormous health crisis of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and most recently Congo, it raises the question of whether mobile health could make a difference. An Information Week article drew attention to some examples where mobile health tools could offer a way to trace the […]
Biomeme’s smartphone lab to diagnose STDs sets sights on Central America
When was the last time you heard a medical device company say the first market it’s pursuing is Central America? But that’s the plan for Biomeme’s Smartphone-enabled lab. Its mobile qPCR thermocycler is designed to amplify trace amounts of DNA to identify particular strains of pathogens by their DNA signature. It’s also designed to do […]
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
DreamIt Health grad with molecular diagnostic for smartphone raises $1M
Directing a child to set up a diagnostic test is one way to illustrate the ease of using a device. That’s the approach Biomeme took for its pitch on crowdfunding website AngeList. Biomeme co-founder Max Perelman’s cute-as-a-button 7-year-old daughter takes on the role of lab assistant. The DreamIt Health Philadelphia graduate developed a test kit […]