The North Carolina organizations aim to enter a final agreement later this year, which would include plans to develop a second Wake Forest School of Medicine campus in Charlotte.
Ocular Systems Inc. is working to bring medical innovation to an eye surgery that has not changed all that much in 100 years. CEO Jerry Barker founded OSI to prepare corneal tissue for transplant, saving doctors time spent doing that prep work themselves. Last year, OSI received U.S. marketing clearance for its first product, a […]
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.
Regenerative medicine company Tengion (NASDAQ:TNGN) has always planned to take its novel tissue generating technology as far as early-stage clinical studies before finding a partner to finance later-stage work. The company’s lead program treating patients who have had their bladder removed is expected to finish phase 1 enrollment by year’s end. A preclinical kidney program […]
China presents life sciences opportunities, but to Western pharmaceutical and medical device companies seeking business deals, the Chinese business world can be a mystery. To understand the Chinese way of thinking about business relationships, it might help to consider the experience of an American. Michael Batalia, director of technology asset management at the Wake Forest […]
Innovation is not the first word that comes to most people’s minds when they think of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Frank Torti can offer perspectives from both outside and inside the agency. Torti said that as director of Wake Forest University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, he saw the university’s technology transfer office trying […]
Wake Forest University computer science professor Paul Pauca wanted what most fathers take for granted — the ability to easily communicate with his son. Pauca’s 6-year-old son Victor was born with Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a rare genetic disorder affecting a gene that plays a crucial role in the development of the nervous system and the brain. […]
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.
A regenerative medicine project at Wake Forest University is one of 40 initiatives sharing in $13.7 million in new Muscular Dystrophy Association funding for research on neuromuscular diseases. Martin Childers, a professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine in the Wake Forest School of Medicine, has been awarded $480,000 over three years to research heart […]
Wake Forest University researchers have found that a product available for the last decade as a sexual aid may have the added benefit of helping female cancer survivors alleviate their post-cancer symptoms. ArginMax, a product of Hawaii firm the Daily Wellness Company, was originally developed as a natural nutritional supplement to enhance sexual performance for […]
Wake Forest University’s new medical school dean will come from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Edward Abraham, chair of the department of medicine at UAB, takes his new post in Winston-Salem, North Carolina effective Aug. 1. Abraham succeeds Dr. William Applegate, who has served as dean of the Wake Forest School of Medicine […]