Hungry for Innovation: Notable Project Stems from MEDx Dinner
On a chilly December evening in Durham guests arrived at The Restaurant at The Durham Hotel with a hunger for food and innovation. Seated around a U-shaped table, gastroenterology and engineering professionals brainstormed engineering solutions…
NC Biotech Center awards $2M in grants, loans across state’s life science ecosystem
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 22 grants and loans totaling $2,050,778 to universities, bioscience companies and other organizations in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year. The awards, made from April 1 to June 30, will…
Simulating Blood Flow at the Cellular Level
Amanda Randles’s revolutionary supercomputer blood flow simulator HARVEY is poised to improve the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of human diseases Amanda Randles, the Alfred Winborne Mordecai and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at…
Polarean Enrols First Patient At University Of Cincinnati Trial Site
Polarean Imaging PLC on Monday announced enrolment of the first patients in its third trial site at the University of Cincinnati in the US and is on track for its third quarter enrolment target. Shares…
Askbio new partnership could lead to big gains for gene therapy
By Seth Thomas Gulledge – Staff Writer, Triangle Business Journal Just months after bringing in $235 million in new funding, a Triangle gene-therapy company has landed a big partnership in the first of many moves predicted by its…
Triangle Leads Nation in NIH Per-Capita Funding
North Carolina’s Research Triangle region has another statistic to crow about. A recent study by the State Science & Technology Institute (SSTI) reported that the Durham-Chapel Hill metropolitan area led the nation last year in per-capita funding…
The UCSF Rosenman Institute Announces the 2019 Rosenman Innovators
The UCSF Rosenman Institute is proud to announce the 2019 cohort of the Rosenman Innovators, a group of 10 early-stage companies chosen for their innovative technologies and patient impact. 2019 is the fourth year for…
Durham biotech startup Baebies adds $6M to funding round
Baebies, a biotech startup developing products and services for newborn screening and pediatric testing, has raised nearly $6 million, raising its latest funding round to more than $18.7 million. The Durham-based company raised the funds…
Duke Nursing Innovations
The summer 2019 Duke Nursing Magazine is now published online! Thumb through the virtual magazine and learn how they’ve been creating pathways for innovation at the Duke University School of Nursing! Click here to…