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Quartet of advocacy groups seed an Ohio startup’s gene therapy for rare Sanfilippo syndrome

A Cleveland biotech startup focused on a rare genetic disease provides an interesting example of the growth of alternative funding for life science companies. Abeona Therapeutics’ just-announced $750,000 seed round, which will allow the startup to complete preclinical development of gene therapies for Sanfilippo syndrome, came not from angel or venture capital investors but from […]

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Sharing is caring: Pediatric hospitals find working together a necessity for innovation, commercialization

Children’s hospital leaders in Ohio recently brought to light an “unlimited supply” of unsolved problems in pediatrics that certainly isn’t going to solve itself. In response, they and others have increasingly turned to collaboration to bring new medical treatments to children. In Ohio, six children’s hospitals have banded together under the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association, […]