La Jolla Institute Extends 25-Year Partnership with Japanese Pharma
Bruce V. Bigelow [Corrected 8/01/13, 00:30 am. See below.] The La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology says it has extended its industry-academic collaboration with the California-based...
View ArticleResearcher Probes Science to Building a “Bio-Artificial” Heart
Angela Shah Most of our organs contain enough stem cells to repair and regenerate themselves after injuries. But not the heart, that most central of muscles. And finding a way …
View ArticleApollo Endosurgery Highlights Austin’s Growing MedTech Cluster
Angela Shah The startup spotlight in Austin has long focused on the city’s techie scene of software startups, app developers, and the like, but a medtech community has been developing, …
View ArticleWSU Student-Led SIB Medical Technologies Prepares Prototype for Market
Sarah Schmid Sagor Bhuiyan and Adham Aljahmi aren’t your typical college seniors. In addition to being pre-med students, they’ve launched SIB Medical Technologies, a startup that aims to commercialize …
View ArticleTexas Biotech Leaders Doubt CPRIT Will Get Its Groove Back
Angela Shah The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas is back in business again, and is seeking a fresh start after a well-documented scandal. But many in the life …
View ArticleMarshfield Clinic Aims to Boost Tech Transfer With Cleveland’s Help
Jeff Engel The next scientific discovery with the potential to revolutionize healthcare could come from anywhere, whether it’s a massive Boston hospital or a rural Midwestern clinic. But when it …
View ArticleRebooted Texas Cancer Agency Funds Biotech Firms
Angela Shah Jon Northrup will move his life sciences firm Beta Cat Pharmaceuticals to Texas after all. A year ago, Northup was caught in limbo and unsure how he should …
View ArticleUW-Milwaukee Students to Design Healthcare Apps for MCW
Jeff Engel A searchable database of open clinical trials, a mobile calculator and calendar for helping patients on steroids decrease their dosage over time, and a mobile tracker for blood …
View ArticleDairyland Innovation: Xconomy Wisconsin’s Top Stories Since December Launch
Jeff Engel It’s hard to believe, but it’s been just over three months since Xconomy launched in Wisconsin. Although it still doesn’t quite feel like spring in the Midwest, in …
View ArticleMCW’s Clarke Wants to Build Critical Mass of Medical Entrepreneurs
Jeff Engel For academic researchers trying to turn an idea into a business, it’s easy to get caught up in the discovery’s “cool” factor and overlook the fact that it …
View ArticleUW Breaks Last Year’s Record With 18 New Companies Formed
Benjamin Romano [Updated 7/2/14, 4:10 pm. See below.] The University of Washington spun out 18 startup companies in the fiscal year just ended, a record level that serves …
View ArticleTexas Medical Center Makes Pitch to Boost Houston Biotech Startups
Angela Shah The Texas Medical Center is slated this week to unveil its new life sciences accelerator, to be housed in a former Nabisco cookie factory near its main Houston …
View ArticleRice Consortium Helped Spark Biotech Researchers’ Inner Entrepreneur
Angela Shah Operations at the Houston Area Translational Research Consortium, or HATRC, are winding down for closure in June, but, in its two years of existence, the biotech initiative helped (Read...
View ArticleCancer Research Center Seeks to Speed Discovery with Applied Research
Angela Shah To commercialize more discoveries from biomedical research labs, professionals in life sciences should take a cue from the physical sciences, where engineers convert basic science into...
View ArticleOfficials Say Fuji’s Purchase of Kalon Boosts Texas’s Biotech Profile
Angela Shah A Texas A&M University spinoff has been acquired by Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, a transaction that helps to secure Texas’s role as an innovation hub for the testing and (Read...
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