Naomi Fried, Boston Children’s Hospital chief innovation officer, today said she is stepping down from her position to join Biogen Idec as vice president of medical information, innovation and external partnerships. Fried told colleagues of the move to the Cambridge-based pharma company in an internal email today, saying it was a “hard decision” to leave […]
Boston Children’s Hospital has selected three top finalists for its first “Innovation Tank,” which will doll out $30,000 to the winner. The winner will be named on Oct. 31 at the hospital’s Global Pediatric Summit and Awards, Taking on Tomorrow. The finalists include: CareAline Products, founded by Kezia and Mike Fitzgerald. The couple created CareAline […]
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.
Margaret Coughlin doesn’t believe in the phrase “content is king.” Rather, content is queen, and context is king, she likes to say. In marketing, content must be put into a strategy, Coughlin told the crowd Wednesday at the Content Marketing World Health Summit in Cleveland. For most of her career, Coughlin’s focused on brand strategy […]
Flagship VentureLabs and Children’s Hospital Boston spin out ModeRNA Therapeutics to commercialize researchers’ discovery of a way to reprogram human skin cells so that they become stem cells, bypassing the creation of stem cell lines from human embryos. Hot on the heels of the announcement of a revolutionary method of creating stem cells without destroying […]
The deal marks the first investment out of NEP's $1.2 billion Fund IX, which closed September 2008. What makes the deal even more interesting is NEP's partnership with Split Rock, a prominent venture capital firm based in Eden Prairie.