More than 300 Attendees and 20 Speakers Are Expected to Participate in the International Workshop,
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Caris Life Sciences Raises $830 Million in Growth Equity Capital to Continue to Expand its Precision Medicine Platform
Caris Life Sciences Raises $830 Million in Growth Equity Capital to Continue to Expand its Precision Medicine Platform
Accelerates Caris’ rapid growth as the market leader reshaping precision oncology through basic science research and the application of artificial intelligence to one of the largest clinico-genomic databases
Capital raise represents one of the largest private financings in precision medicine supported by a diverse, high-quality syndicate of leading investorsContinue reading
Castle Biosciences Supports the American Skin Association with Research Grant
The ASA Castle Biosciences Research Grant Melanoma was awarded to Joel Sunshine, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Rays of Hope Conference Brings Brain Injury Survivors Together
Rays of Hope provides an annual opportunity for survivors, their families, and caregivers to share experiences on their respective roads to recovery. This emotional connection often leads to greater insights about the invisible disability known as brain injury.Continue reading
CSL Behring Announces Closing of Global Commercialization and License Agreement with uniQure for etranacogene dezaparvovec
• Etranacogene dezaparvovec (AMT-061) is an investigational gene therapy that may potentially provide people with hemophilia B with years of functional levels of Factor IX, a blood-clotting protein that prevents excessive bleeding.
• uniQure will complete the Phase 3 HOPE-B trial and scale up manufacture for initial commercial supply under an agreed plan with CSL Behring.
TGen-led study of more than 70,000 individuals links dementia to smoking and cardiovascular disease
Significantly, women impaired more by smoking; men impaired more by cardiovascular disease
PHOENIX, Ariz. — May 13, 2021 — In the largest study of the associations between smoking and cardiovascular disease on cognitive function, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, found both impair the ability to learn and memorize; and that the effects of smoking are more pronounced among females, while males are more impaired by cardiovascular disease.
Arizona Expands Telehealth Law, Making it Broadest in the Nation
On May 5, 2021, Governor Ducey signed H.B. 2454, legislation which dramatically expands access to telehealth services in Arizona. The legislation—the most expansive in the country—makes telemedicine a permanent fixture of Arizona’s healthcare system.Continue reading
C-Path Announces Accelerated Data Sharing Collaboration with Tufts Medical Center
FDA Grant Supports Use of Real-World Data to Generate Real-World Evidence in Neonates
TUCSON, Ariz., May 12, 2021 — Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and Tufts Medical Center have announced a joint venture to integrate the first patient-level clinical trial data to generate actionable real-world evidence (RWE) for neonatal drug development, from real-world neonate data (RWD). This activity, funded by a grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is being executed through a neonatal pilot project within C-Path’s International Neonatal Consortium (INC). The data sharing collaboration and transfer also marks the fastest on record for C-Path — starting with the Data Contribution Agreement negotiations and receipt of the data in three months’ time this March.Continue reading
Bioscience Startup Wins University of Arizona Center for Innovation Sponsored Launch
TUCSON, Ariz. (May 11, 2021) — The University of Arizona Center for Innovation (UACI) is pleased to announce that uPetsia is the winning startup for the UACI Sponsored Launch Fueled by the Oro Valley Chamber of Commerce competition.