life sciences

Wilson Sonsini, WilmerHale and Cooley top new Life Sciences Law Firm Index

The life sciences — particularly in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals — are among the very few industries where companies insist on industry-specialized advisors. The complex life cycle of a life sciences product demands a broad range of legal and business expertise across many practice specialties, combined with deep scientific knowledge. The stakes are increasing particularly when […]

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Paper Shadow Charts: Hidden Barrier to eSource in Risk Based Monitoring

The benefits of eSource, where trial data remains electronic from start through data lock, are well understood. They include the elimination of transcription errors (shown by Nham et al to be 10x more accurate), reduction in duplicitous effort, reduced monitoring requirements and easier query resolution. With clinic EHR adoption nearing 90%, digital datapoints should be […]

Devices & Diagnostics

A periodic table for healthcare

Road maps for patient engagement, nifty life sciences maps. And now, periodic tables. After putting out “The Periodic Table of Tech,” venture capital database CB Insights said it received numerous requests for a similar guideline applied to the complicated world of the life sciences and healthcare ecosystem. Alas, today the Periodic Table of Healthcare is […]

Devices & Diagnostics

Texas Medical Center launches healthcare accelerator

Houston is hoping to get in on the wave of digital health and life science innovation, led by Texas Medical Center‘s newly launched accelerator, dubbed TMCx. The accelerator, in a 100,000 square-foot former Nabisco factory, will be one of the “core components” of the Medical Center’s Innovation Institute, as well as the first step in […]

A nifty map of life sciences companies in Cambridge’s Kendall Square

There’s no question that Cambridge is known for its hyper-dense concentration of life sciences companies, but the folks over at advisory firm MassGlobal Partners put together a nice infographic that illustrates the clustering of companies in Kendall Square. It’s by no means comprehensive – some 100 additional companies are headquartered in the Cambridge Innovation Center alone […]

Cook Medical, Purdue fuel $12M fund for life sciences startups

Two Indiana heavyweights announced a partnership that means more funds for life science startups in the Hoosier state. Cook Medical and the Purdue Research Foundation will pair up again to create the Foundry Investment Fund, a $12-million not-for-profit “evergreen investment fund to support Purdue-based life sciences companies,” according to a press release. This isn’t the […]

Lean launchpad and healthcare startups: Sometimes teams win when they fail

This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them.  The class had 1,145 engagements with instructors […]

Lean launchpad and life science entrepreneurs: Lessons learned in therapeutics

This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them. The class had 1,145 engagements with instructors […]