The major mid-atlantic capital investment conference IMPACT will kick off in just four weeks in Philadelphia, bringing together more than a thousand players from the venture capital, private equity and entrepreneurship communities for the day-and-a-half conference. IMPACT, run by Philadelphia Alliance for Capital Technologies, or PACT, gives up and coming companies the chance to present […]
Who knew clinical trials were still so stuck in the past? Besides the big ethical questions the studies raise, enrollees also face a number of taxing hurdles that can sometimes bar participation. For those with rare orphan diseases, for example, just traveling to the studies can be a financial and logistical nightmare. And when it’s […]
Why pets might make better research subjects than lab animals. DRUG development is a risky—and costly—business. Many promising compounds fail to cut the mustard when put through clinical trials. One reason is that drugs which work on laboratory animals may not work quite so well in human tests. Being able to pick winners and losers […]
Essential Medical, Inc., a privately held medical device company addressing the rapidly growing large bore vascular closure market, announced today the first live MANTA case at the Transcatheter Therapeutics conference (TCT) in Washington DC. TCT is the largest annual interventional cardiology conference in North America. The case was performed live on Monday October 31st by […]
Every shimmering detail of the University of Pennsylvania’s new business incubator and lab is cutting edge, right down the 3D printed scissors ushered on stage by a robot to cut the ceremonial ribbon. Over the past few months, the futuristic Pennovation Center has quietly gotten to work on a mission that seeks nothing less than […]
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