Xcellerate Biomedical Technologies, a new company based in Phoenix, AZ, has announced its second round capital raise of $500k for its first line of products, BioXcellerator™ – a medical strength line of formulations sold exclusively through top dermatologists, plastic surgeons, orthopedists and OB/GYN doctors. Continue reading
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FDA Releases Final Guidance on the Breakthrough Devices Program
On December 18, 2019, the FDA has issued a final guidance on its Breakthrough Devices Program, which is intended to provide patients and healthcare providers with timely access to medical devices for diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating conditions and diseases. Continue reading
Critical Path Institute Encouraged by FDA to Move Forward on Type 1 Diabetes Biomarker Initiative
Biomarker potentially could identify individuals at risk of developing T1DContinue reading
Applications Open for MedTech Innovator 2019
MedTech Innovator is the medical technology industry’s global showcase and accelerator for innovative medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies. Continue reading
HTG Establishes a French Subsidiary to Support Expanding Growth
HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM) (HTG), a life science company whose mission is to advance precision medicine, today announced the formation of a French subsidiary, HTG Molecular Diagnostics France SARL (“HTG France”) in November 2018. This entity is expected to further facilitate HTG’s ability to generate European product revenue and to improve its responsiveness to the needs of its growing customer base in Europe. In conjunction with the subsidiary formation, HTG has also created an application incubator laboratory in Sausheim, France, which is expected to accelerate additional product applications and to provide direct customer service to European accounts.Continue reading
National Academy of Inventors Welcomes Two UA Professors as Fellows
Two distinguished University of Arizona professors and innovators have been named as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Dr. Thomas Koch, professor and dean of the College of Optical Sciences, and Dr. Harrison Barrett, Regents’ Professor of Medical Imaging, Optical Sciences and Applied Mathematics, will now join a growing cadre of distinguished Fellows from the UA.Continue reading
Applications Open for Helios summer programs at TGen
Helios Scholars at TGen serves college academics; TGen Bioscience Leadership Academy aimed at high school studentsContinue reading
Accepting the Challenge
Arizona’s statewide life science and healthcare industry association unveils plans for 2019 and announces new grant funding to accelerate the process.Continue reading
Roche to develop companion diagnostic test to help identify patients eligible for anti-PD-1 therapy based on biomarker expression, not location, of solid tumors
- Roche collaborates with Merck to develop companion diagnostic for use with Keytruda (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in advanced solid tumors with mismatch repair deficiency (dMMR)
- Roche will seek FDA approval for biomarker panel expected to provide a standardized predictive testing option for dMMR