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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
a kitten dangling from a tree limb. One visit to Google kills that idea; there are already dozens of companies catering to premenstrual women. What about a service that can make a visit to an urgent care clinic more efficient and draw... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
traveled around the world for 20-minute appointments, but they had received vital advice from specialists in Turin, Helsinki, and Tokyo, where an applicable clinical trial was underway, via the internet.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
genome. Diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) while at HBS, Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) and several of his classmates established Prize4Life, which offers awards to incentivize ALS research. Last year, the nonprofit also unveiled a revolutionary open-source ALS View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
in on a treatment for age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. In October 2009 the company entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon, which is now taking Potentia’s drug candidate through View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
currently has drugs in clinical trials for mela-noma and breast cancer, hopes to have its first products on the market as early as 2004. "I think we're going to see more people in the next decade who are... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
Boost VC, SV Angel, Village Global, and Threshold Ventures, according to the Wall Street Journal. Coravos is co-founder and CEO of the startup, formerly known as Elektra Labs, which helps hospitals and pharmaceutical companies employ sensor technologies to move medical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
early detection of gynecological diseases. The Oakland-based company completed its second clinical trial and is now raising Series A funding. Its initial indications focus on identifying conditions that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
ask their scientists about therapeutics they are developing as their companies grapple with both clinical trial successes and failures. Classes also will focus on the most promising advances, including... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
"Harvard 'B' for Peace." It was an extraordinary introduction to student life at the B-School, and as events such as the student killings at Kent State and Jackson State, the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and the trial of the Chicago Seven... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
antibiotic susceptibility profiles. The expertise DZD has developed along its three-year journey is already being deployed in clinical settings. “Our goal has always been to be commercially relevant, even during our R&D phase,” notes Lee.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Eventually, he found a treatment trial at the Mayo Clinic that was testing a new combination of chemotherapy and high-dose radiation. Slowly, Susan’s tumor began to shrink, until there was nothing left but... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
PYMNTS.com. (Readers who know of groups in need of PPE can email Miller at anne@projectn95.org.) NOVEMBER 23 Cambridge-based biotech Moderna, led by CEO Stephane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170), released promising results on the coronavirus vaccine it is developing.... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
the books—really, all the libraries—it had scanned and stored. For it to augment doctors’ skills, Hogan and others knew that Watson would need to go to med school. So IBM partnered with the Cleveland Clinic and New York’s Memorial Sloan... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
comes to mind as I sit in on a value stream analysis meeting of Emory’s clinical trial process with Chief Nursing Officer Susan Grant. A lean manufacturing technique that originated with Toyota, this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
in January. The product, a simple DNA saliva test to determine an individual's personal sensitivity to routine levels of mercury, is grounded in an eight-year clinical trial that found about one in five... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
application to conduct human clinical trials in Alzheimer’s patients at the end of the year. Beka Solomon’s response? About time. “I figured this out 10 years ago,” she told her son. “Why haven’t you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
rapid urbanization, sedentary lives, and bad diets. It requires a holistic approach where engineers, designers, and clinicians work together. What lies ahead? We have a clinical trial coming up to validate... View Details