What You Should Know:
- Corundum Neuroscience, formerly Joy Ventures launches a new neuroscience-focused venture builder and fund to spur neuroscience research and innovation.
- The newly rebranded Corundum Neuroscience works with researchers and entrepreneurs with commercially applicable ideas to build and grow companies developing innovative solutions spanning a range of health and disease areas, including anxiety, depression, PTSD, chronic pain, sleep and neurodegenerative
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Accenture, Salesforce Partner on Generative AI for Life Sciences Companies
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- Accenture and Salesforce are investing in the development of Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud, focusing on innovation, assets, and accelerators powered by data and artificial intelligence (AI) to help life sciences companies create sustainable value and drive growth.
- Building on their generative AI collaboration, Accenture and Salesforce will leverage their joint generative AI acceleration hub to develop new solutions and use cases for Salesforce Life Sciences
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Prescribing Trends Surge: Wegovy & Ozempic Gain Popularity, Survey Shows
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- Prescriptions for the popular weight loss drug Wegovy showed a six-fold increase between December 2022 and June 2023, according to a recent analysis of prescribing trends by DrFirst.
- Prescriptions for Ozempic, the lower-dose version for treating diabetes, increased by 65% during the same period among doctors on the DrFirst prescribing network.
- DrFirst's network includes over 350,000 prescribers across the U.S., including 260,000 doctors, who use their
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Cleveland Clinic Launches Quantum Innovation Catalyzer Program
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The Cleveland Clinic announced the launch of its Quantum Innovation Catalyzer Program, a competitive program designed for startup companies aiming to explore quantum computing applications in healthcare and life sciences.
- Cleveland Clinic plans to select up to four early- and growth-stage life sciences and healthcare technology companies through a competitive application process.
How The Quantum Innovation Catalyzer Program Works
Awarded startups will
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Survey Shows Burdens on Clinical Research Sites Sharply Increasing Since 2018
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- Advarra, a prominent player in regulatory review solutions and clinical research technology has released findings from its 2023 Study Activation Survey. Since 2018, nearly 60% of clinical research sites have experienced an increase in study volume. The survey reveals sites are also managing more sponsor-provided technology, which is now perceived as a higher burden than contracting and budgeting.
- The 2023 Study Activation Survey aimed to capture the perspectives
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Verana Health Partners with Foundation Fighting Blindness to Integrate Genetic Testing Data into Real-world Evidence Research
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Verana Health® (Verana), a digital health company helping to revolutionize patient care and clinical research by unlocking the potential of real-world data, and the Foundation Fighting Blindness – the world’s leading organization committed to finding treatments and cures for blinding retinal diseases—announce a partnership focused on providing the life sciences community with deeper and broader data to optimize and expedite clinical trials.Under the
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SubjectWell Acquires PatientCentra, Expanding Ability to Recruit for Rare Disease/Oncology Indications
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- SubjectWell, a patient access marketplace connecting individuals with chronic health conditions to healthcare options, has acquired PatientCentra, a company specializing in global patient recruitment and personalized recruitment journeys. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- This strategic acquisition enhances SubjectWell's capacity to serve patient recruitment needs for international clinical studies and further extends its
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M&A: Viome Acquires Naring Health
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Viome Life Sciences, a longevity company committed to translating scientific advancements into actionable and individualized health solutions, today announced the acquisition of Naring Health, a digital health and wellness company providing access to individualized clinical and molecular data to empower informed decisions.Under Naring Health, Viome will also be acquiring DiscernDX, a company making regular health monitoring, early disease detection, and
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United Therapeutics to Acquire Miromatrix Medical for $91M
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- United Therapeutics Corporation and Miromatrix Medical Inc. announced today a definitive agreement for United Therapeutics to acquire Miromatrix for $91M.
- The acquisition of Miromatrix will expand United Therapeutics’ existing complementary platform of organ manufacturing programs, which include ex-vivo lung perfusion, xenotransplantation, 3-D bioprinting, and regenerative medicine approaches with the objective of creating an unlimited supply of tolerable,
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3 Ways for Government to Help Spur Biomedical Innovation
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the biomedical community took on the task of developing and deploying critical interventions to address an unprecedented public health emergency. In a remarkable display of collective effort, stakeholders from government and industry came together to produce safe and effective mRNA vaccines as well as therapeutics– a groundbreaking achievement reached in record time. As the biomedical community looks to the future, government agencies have a tremendous
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