The efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine focused the world’s attention on the pharmaceutical industry. Before the pandemic hit, very few people outside of the healthcare industry understood what it takes to develop a new drug. Nor did they consider the complexities of administering the various medications that require a regimen that goes beyond “take one pill each morning.”
The biopharmaceutical industry is massive, accounting for more than $1.3 trillion in economic output, representing four
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Medable Launches Decentralized Clinical Trials Enablement Program
What You Should Know:
- Medable Inc., a software platform for patient-centered drug development, today announced an industry-first digital certification program that provides life sciences companies with specialized tools, knowledge sharing and skills development to rapidly scale their decentralized and hybrid trial strategies.
- Hybrid/decentralized clinical trials have unleashed an entirely new patient experience, but this new approach to clinical research will only work if
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RapidPulse Launches with $15M for Ischemic Stroke Therapy
- RapidPulse, Inc., a Miami-based medical device company developing a novel aspiration system to treat ischemic stroke, today announced it has raised $15M in Series A funding led by Santé Ventures who was joined by Epidarex Capital, Hatteras Venture Partners, Broadview Ventures, and Syntheon.
- The RapidPulse system was developed by Syntheon, a medical device incubator focused on developing next-generation medical devices, and has commercialized some of the largest and most trusted
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Lightship Partners with Castor to Scale Virtual Clinical Trials Worldwide
- Lightship and Castor, providers of decentralized clinical trial solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to run direct-to-patient (hybrid) clinical trials at scale. The partnership combines operational excellence in clinical studies and technology that delivers for the most complex clinical trials.
- Lightship’s end-to-end delivery model combined with an in-house care team provide the best possible patient experience in clinical trials.
- By partnering with Castor’s
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Benchling Launches New RNA Capabilities to Accelerate Drug Discovery
What You Should Know:
- Benchling, the leading life sciences cloud, today announced the launch of RNA Therapeutics R&D, a new digital solution that allows scientists to design, analyze, and develop complex RNA therapeutics in a unified cloud platform for the first time.
- More than 1,000 R&D organizations/customers can now accelerate collaboration, speed, and simplicity for RNA research via Benchling — an important advance for biotech.
Biopharmaceutical R&D teams can
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Medidata Announces Decentralized Clinical Trials Program
What You Should Know:
- Today Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, announced the launch of the Medidata Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT) Program, the most comprehensive set of unified, secure technologies that enable full decentralization across the clinical trial continuum.
For the first time ever, drug, vaccine, and medical device developers (sponsors) and contract research organizations (CROs) can take advantage of the only platform offering on the market which combines:
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Hawthorne Effect Secures $20M to Decentralize Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- Hawthorne Effect, a San Francisco-based solution for decentralizing clinical trials, today announced it has raised $20M in Series A funding led by Northpond Ventures with participation from SignalFire and P5 Health Ventures.
- Founded in 2015, Hawthrone Effect alleviates key issues related to patient recruitment and retention via its tech-driven platform and expansive network of medical professionals.
Hawthrone’s key offerings include:
- Hawthorne Cloud: The
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Medidata Launches New Tech to Transform the Patient Clinical Trial Experience
What You Should Know:
- Today Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, launched myMedidata Registries – a new technology that expands and strengthens the company’s myMedidata patient portal to engage patients before and after (i.e., long term follow-up/safety surveillance) a clinical trial.
- The offering, which redefines Medidata’s end-to-end technology solutions and represents a major advance for the life sciences industry, empowers patients to
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HHS Launches VC Partnership to Develop Solutions to Prevent Future Pandemics, Public Health Emergencies
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launches a new $50M venture capital partnership with nonprofit organization Global Health Investment Corporation (GHIC) to accelerate development and commercialization of technologies and medical products needed to respond to or prevent public health emergencies, such as pandemics, and other health security threats
- Through the BARDA Ventures program, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development
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PharmStars Launches Pharma-Focused Accelerator for Digital Health Startups
What You Should Know:
PharmStars today announced the launch of its global digital health accelerator to transform how pharma and startups do business. PharmStars is the first and only non-proprietary accelerator for digital health startups that wish to improve their ability to engage with pharma as clients and partners.
For its pharma members, PharmStars offers premium access to a curated group of the most promising digital health startups that align with their digital health strategy. The
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