Exact Sciences Corp., of Madison, Wis., detailed three studies of the Oncotype Dx Breast Recurrence Score test during the virtual 2020 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting. Read More
Lowell, Mass.-based startup Launchpad Medical LLC has picked up an additional $1.8 million grant from the Michigan-Pittsburgh-Wyss Regenerative Medicine Resource Center to advance the development of its bone graft solution. The company plans to use the funds to conduct a pivotal animal study of the injectable biomaterial, which will pave the way for a U.S. FDA-approved clinical trial. Read More
Medical science continues to define the relative risks of progressively smaller patient subsets across the disease spectrum, but this is particularly true of late in connection with aortic stenosis (AS). Read More
LONDON – After eight years in development, Memed Diagnostics Ltd. has secured CE marking for its point-of-care blood test, which is able to distinguish between bacterial and viral infections in 15 minutes. Read More
TORONTO – Seven years after setting up shop in downtown Toronto, high resolution, surgical imaging med-tech company Perimeter Medical Imaging Inc. (PMI) is still wrestling with a statistical heartbreaker: 1 in 4 patients told to return for a second surgery to remove cancerous breast tissue after the first surgery failed to get it all. Now PMI has said it can cut that number down dramatically thanks to a $7.44 million investment from the Austin, Texas-based Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to identify wayward breast cancer cells using artificial intelligence technology. Read More
New hires and promotions in the med-tech industry, including: Biomodex, Biosensors International, Exact Therapeutics, Polarean Imaging, Varian Medical Systems. Read More
Med-tech firms raising money in public or private financings, including: Bigfoot Biomedical, Know Labs, Labminds, Orasure Technologies, Re-Vana Therapeutics, Tae Life Sciences. Read More
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Avita Medical, Citius, College Park Industries, Fibralign, Icometrix, Lumendi, Medx, Mölab, Mybio, Myndtec, Maness Veteran Medical, Nuprobe, Ourcrowd, Pathgroup, Protech Home Medical, Qualigen Therapeutics, Respira Technologies, Steeper Group, Surgery Exchange, Technopath Clinical Diagnostics, Terumo. Read More
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Feedback, Gelesis, Philips, Zoll. Read More
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Hydrogen plus gemcitabine may prove efficacious in treatment of bladder cancer; Tumor types have distinct microbiomes; Kinase helps prepare pre-metastatic niche; EZH2 has dual role; Sulfur-for-oxygen switch enables photosensitizers for cancer therapy. Read More
