What You Should Know:
- RefleXion Medical, a therapeutic oncology company pioneering the use of biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT) for all stages of cancer, today announced the closing of a $125M debt facility, of which $55M is available immediately to repay the company’s existing $50M of debt.
- The remaining $70M of the new facility will be made available upon reaching certain regulatory and commercial milestones. The funds will support the continued commercialization of the RefleXion X1
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Oncology Technology Solutions, Services Impacting Patients and Providers
COTA Appoints Noel Alaka as VP of Life Sciences
What You Should Know:
Today, oncology real-world data analytics company COTA announced the appointment of Noel Alaka as Vice President of Life Sciences.
As VP of Life Sciences, Alaka will be responsible for helping grow and build partnerships with leading life sciences companies that are looking to adopt real-world data and real-world evidence to help accelerate innovation in treatments for patients facing cancer.
Noel Alaka Bio/Background
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Syapse and Pierian Partner to Power Precision Oncology
What You Should Know:
- Syapse, a real-world evidence company is teaming up with Pierian®, a provider of advanced clinical genomics technology on a new joint collaboration that will benefit patients of the AdventHealth Cancer Institute in Central Florida.
- The collaboration combines Syapse’s real-world evidence solutions designed to improve outcomes for patients with cancer, Pierian’s leading-edge clinical genomics workflow, and precision medicine services that provide the most relevant
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L7 Informatics Raises $38M to Digitalize Precision Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- L7 Informatics, a leader in software for life sciences that delivers a flexible end-to-end platform for precision healthcare, today announced a $38M investment led by Banneker Partners with participation from its pre-existing investors.
- The company will use the new funding to accelerate product development, expand L7|ESP's global reach, and build on L7's outstanding customer support.
Precision healthcare offers significant improvements in
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Insilico Medicine Raises $60M, Launches AI-powered Drug Discovery Robotics Laboratory
What You Should Know:
- Insilico Medicine, an NYC-based clinical-stage end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company raises $60 million in Series D financing from a syndicate of global investors with expertise in investing in the biopharmaceutical and life sciences sectors.
- Insilico is also launching a new state-of-the-art robotics lab and fully robotic biological data factory. They have seen a string of successes thus far in 2022, including the
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Rocket VR Health Launches VR Mindfulness Program for Cancer Patients
What You Should Know:
- Rocket VR Health, a digital therapeutics company developing immersive therapy programs launches a new study in partnership with Dr. Linda Carlson, Enbridge Research Chair in Psychosocial Oncology at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine.
- The first-of-its-kind study will assess the feasibility of a virtual reality guided mindfulness (VRGM) intervention program in adult cancer patients with chronic cancer-related pain
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Watchmaker Genomics Raises $40M to Expand Clinical Sequencing Product Offerings
What You Should Know:
- Watchmaker Genomics, a life sciences company specializing in the development of high-stringency applications focused on the reading, writing, and editing of DNA and RNA raises $40M in an oversubscribed Series A, bringing total funding to date to $53.5M. The round was led by Decheng Capital, with co-investment from Eclipse Ventures.
- Watchmaker Genomics applies advanced enzymology to enable breakthrough applications for the reading, writing, and
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Tempus Launches Psychiatric Real-World Data Collaboration
What You Should Know:
- Tempus, an $8B precision medicine company, announced the launch of a new psychiatric real-world data program to leverage real-world data to inform mental health treatment.
- Tempus N+ is a collaboration between provider institutions across the country and Tempus to build an infrastructure for data-driven research – providers can seamlessly and securely contribute molecular and clinical data, and in turn, their clinicians and researchers can access a
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Cerner Collaboration to Increase Access to Cancer Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- Cerner, Elligo Health Research® and Freenome are collaborating to enable a clinical trial through the Learning Health Network to help advance early cancer detection.
- Together they will be using the research-activated network of health systems, real-world data (RWD) and multiomics technology, developed by Freenome, with the goal to help accelerate early cancer detection.
Importance of Early Cancer Detection
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HealthQuest Capital Closes $675M for Fund IV to Invest in Transformational Healthcare Companies
What You Should Know:
- HealthQuest Capital, a sector specialist capital firm focused on companies optimizing value in healthcare, today announced the close of HealthQuest Partners IV, L.P., at its hard cap of $675M .
- The oversubscribed fund will enable HealthQuest to continue to invest in growth-stage companies that are revolutionizing the healthcare industry.
Providing Growth Capital to Companies Transforming Healthcare
Founded in 2013 by Garheng Kong, a physician, scientist, and
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