The Jeffrey Modell Foundation in New York recently launched software that aims to better inform the healthcare world on primary immunodeficiency disorders, harnessing data from medical records that could significantly improve early detection. It could save the global health systems up to $40 billion in unnecessary healthcare costs if it helps identify patients early on, […]
If Ebola in the U.S. did one thing, it made hospitals prepared for the worst, with Dallas Presbyterian having the misfortune of being a cautionary tale. According to the CDC, state health officials have identified and designated 35 hospitals with Ebola treatment centers, with more expected in the coming weeks. Hospitals with Ebola treatment centers […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Geisinger Health System recently launched an online portal that allows patients to contribute their own genomic data, which in turn will be analyzed by the NIH-funded Clinical Genome Resource. The Pennsylvania-based health system and its researches developed the portal, GenomeConnect, that will connect with the NIH effort to gather and analyze data from “thousands of […]
Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT have formed a $3 million strategic alliance in an attempt to address three “major challenges” that persist in healthcare: improving diagnoses, developing new approaches to prevent and treat infectious diseases and developing more accurate methods of diagnosing and treating neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. The alliance, officials said, will add further […]
The National Institutes of Health today announced grants totaling $32 million that will help researchers across the country study and develop strategies to analyze and leverage “the explosion of increasingly complex biomedical data sets.” The grants, part of what’s called Big Data to Knowledge, are projected to reach an investment of nearly $656 million through […]
The NIH has just committed $46 million toward the White House’s BRAIN Initiative, with aims to delve deeper into understanding what makes the human mind – and brain – tick. The government just announced the 58 research centers and academics to whom the funding will go – it’s early stage, but quite promising. “There’s a big gap […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Supporters of National Institutes of Health research are following the lead of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge – they just turned to social media to try and get the general public jazzed about increasing federal funding for medical research. The materials and methods are a touch more staid, however – no ice water and wet T-shirts required. The Act for NIH: […]
Startup Founder Testimonial: Vitruvian from LaunchPad Central on Vimeo. There have been 2 or 3 courses in my entire education that have changed the way I think. This is one of those. For the past three years the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps has been teaching our nations best scientists how to build a Lean Startup. Close […]
We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial […]
The National Institutes of Health is putting some of the $30 million the National Football League donated to concussion research last year to work funding studies on how concussion affects the brain and what the potential long-term effects of repeat brain injuries could be. Although football isn’t the only profession where its players are prone […]
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $2.4 million over the next five years to three projects involving robots that would enhance mobility for visually and physically impaired and improve treatment of atrial fibrillation. This is the second year NIH has participated in President Obama’s National Robotics Initiative, a joint effort by a group of […]
With a new $300,000 Phase I SBIR grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, biotech startup Milo Biotechnology will march forward with development and testing of its follistatin therapy for muscular dystrophy. Its lead candidate, AAV1-FS344, is a gene therapy intended to up-regulate follistatin, a protein that blocks myostatin, […]
From commercialization partnerships to startup incubators and new sources of funding, universities seem to be getting creative in how they’re breathing innovative thinking into their technology commercialization efforts. And leaders at the federal level are following suit.rig
Three University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine labs received $12.5 million in research funding for gene research and cancer treatment from the National Institutes of Health, reinforcing the medical school’s position as one of the country’s top grant recipients. Sunil Singhal M.D., director of the Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory at the Perelman School of […]