US Endoscopy‘s chief operating officer hopes city and state economic development programs will help his company to keep innovating. The Mentor, Ohio, company makes endoscopic products aimed at unmet needs in the burgeoning market for minimally invasive surgical procedures of the digestive system. It offers about 140 products — many of them accessories that enable […]
Since its 2002 inception, the Ohio Third Frontier program has created nearly 55,000 jobs and helped create, attract or capitalize more than 600 businesses. Ohio Department of Development Director Lisa Patt-McDaniel announced the program’s latest performance metrics this afternoon at a Third Frontier Commission meeting in Columbus. “We are positioning Ohio as a leader in […]
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.
Want to keep track of developments at the Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center in Cleveland? The center recently launched a Web site that is independent of the Cleveland Clinic, leader of the public/private consortium that is developing the center with the help of a $60 million grant from the Ohio Third Frontier program, among other support. […]
US Endoscopy, the endoscopy device design and manufacturing company in Mentor, has released the Entrada colonic overtube, which offers more control during colonoscopy in patients with tortuous sigmoid looping.
Queen City Angels invested in seven life sciences companies and one health information technology company last year, according to its 2009 annual operating report (pdf). The group of accredited investors finished the year with 12 investments, which included three IT companies and one company specializing in advanced materials. In addition, the angel group created a […]
Supporters of the Ohio Third Frontier kicked off their campaign Tuesday morning to woo voters to renew the state's largest economic development program by voting Yes on Issue 1 during the May primary election.
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.
Two years after emerging as an independent with aspirations to become one of the nation's top hospitals, Christ Hospital in Mount Auburn hopes to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the next decade, recruit more than 200 doctors to Greater Cincinnati and build a network of about five ambulatory centers around the region, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut donned their high-tech marketing hats Friday, touting the state's leadership in biomedical and health care innovation by announcing centers of excellence at 14 universities.
An information session about a campaign to get the $700 million Ohio Third Frontier bond issue passed by voters in May will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at the Holiday Inn, Independence.
A $700 million renewal of Ohio Third Frontier -- the 10-year, $1.6 billion project to re-energize Ohio’s economy by investing in emerging technologies -- is on its way to the May 4 ballot, thanks to bipartisan support of a compromise resolution by state Senate and House members on Wednesday.
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.
A conference committee of the Ohio General Assembly agreed late Tuesday evening to ask voters to renew the Ohio Third Frontier project for four more years with a $700 million bond issue.
Ask most people touched by the Ohio Third Frontier project whether it ought to be renewed and you'll get a resounding "Yes!" A tougher question: How much money should the state borrow to extend the program beyond fiscal 2012, when its term ends? Ohio legislators will grapple with this question as they try to meet a Feb. 3 deadline to get the renewal on the May 4 ballot.
A joint resolution to put a bond issue that renews the Ohio Third Frontier project on the May 4 ballot was adopted by the Ohio Senate Tuesday -- at half its original size -- and is on its way back to the Ohio House.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland did not mention the terms "biomedical" or "health care" in his State of the State address at noon today. However, Strickland did announce several business investment, research and worker-training programs that could help companies in these industries grow and create jobs.
CardioInsight Technologies Inc. has raised $5.7 million in an ongoing funding round to help commercialize its heart-mapping technology. The Cleveland company's electrocardiographic mapping technology could help diagnose and treat electrical abnormalities of the heart, such as heart failure and arrhythmia.