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- ARTIS Ventures (“AV”), a venture firm focused on pioneering investments in biotech, health, and life sciences, today announced the candidates chosen for the AV Fellows program. The year-long program includes a diverse group of nine fellows from across the world, chosen from more than 150 applicants currently enrolled in a Ph.D. or MD program (or postdoc/residency) with technical expertise ranging from computational biology, synthetic biology, microbiome engineering,
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Syneos Health, Aetion Partner to Offer RWE Solutions to Advance Drug Development and Commercialization
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- Aetion, a leader in real-world evidence analysis, and Syneos Health® (Nasdaq:SYNH), one of the largest CROs, announced a partnership to provide regulatory-grade data and analytics-driven solutions to advance drug development and improve patient outcomes.
- The partnership aims to generate meaningful real-world evidence (RWE) across all phases of the product lifecycle – introducing commercial expertise and insights far earlier in the clinical process – to
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How Logmore’s Condition Monitoring System Is Securing COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
With the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in high gear, innovative data technologies are critical to the success of the most ambitious inoculation effort in human history.
There are many challenges involved with trying to vaccinate so many people in such a short amount of time. It hasn’t helped that the leading vaccines require extra cold temperatures in order to remain effective. The “cold chain” is a significant challenge even in the most developed countries in the world. In the US, safe
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NVIDIA Launches UK’s Fastest AI Supercomputer for Healthcare Research
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- NVIDIA launched the UK’s fastest supercomputer -- Cambridge-1, the world’s first collaborative, industry-wide system dedicated to accelerating healthcare and digital biology research using powerful combination of AI and simulation.
- At the virtual inauguration, NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang discussed what NVIDIA’s $100 million investment will mean for the UK. He said the system will enable research breakthroughs at a scale and speed previously impossible with
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Reinventing the Last Mile: Delivering COVID-19 Vaccines to Our Most Vulnerable Populations
Over the past several months, the United States has rapidly accelerated its COVID-19 vaccination rates, with close to half of the population receiving at least one dose by the middle of May. With three highly effective vaccine options and numerous public-private partnerships delivering doses to the public, the country certainly appears to be on the right track to building immunity to the virus. However, a closer look at the data reveals significant concerns. There are clear and persistent
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4G Clinical Secures $230M for Randomization and Trial Supply Management
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- 4G Clinical, a cutting-edge randomization and trial supply management (RTSM) company, today announced it has entered into an agreement to receive a growth equity investment of over $230MM from Goldman Sachs Asset Management ("Goldman Sachs").
- Founded in 2015, 4G Clinical's Prancer RTSMⓇ enables life sciences companies to reach First Patient In (FPI) up to 50% faster than other providers and implement mid-study changes more efficiently. 4G Clinical's clinical
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Hospitals Can Teach Life Science Companies a Thing or Two About Patient Engagement
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
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- 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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