Category: Joint ventures/collaborations
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Biotech, Academic Labs Partner on Ultrasound Brain Therapy
A developer of treatments for brain disorders and researchers at Stanford University aim to harness ultrasound to deliver drugs in nanoscale particles to precise regions of the brain.
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Partnership to Discover Mental Health Peptides in Milk
A collaboration between biotechnology and dairy products businesses seeks to identify peptides in milk to form into dietary supplements for people with mood disorders.
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$101M Challenge Seeks Healthy Aging Solutions
A new challenge competition from XPrize calls for proactive and accessible health care solutions for improving the quality of life among older people worldwide.
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Academic, Industry Labs to Build Brain Cell Models
Researchers from university labs in the U.K. are developing models of brain cell interactions using a company’s synthetic human cells derived from stem cells.
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Life Science Incubator Gains $100M in Start-Up Funds
A new-business accelerator program, begun earlier this year to advance and commercialize biomedical research discoveries from academic labs, is receiving a $100 million founding grant.
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Coalition to Boost African Ancestry Genomic Data
An historically Black medical college and pharmaceutical industry group began a program to increase the numbers of people of African descent in genomic databases.
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Longevity Science Group Spins-Off Biotech Start-Up
An organization funding research on extending the human life span by preventing age-related diseases is founding its first biotechnology company.
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Industry-Academic Center to Boost Rare Disease Therapies
An alliance of academic labs and venture investors is starting a new research enterprise to speed development of treatments for rare diseases in the U.S. and U.K.
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Cardiac Tech Start-Up Partners with Mayo Clinic
A new company developing digital cardiac diagnostics is collaborating with the Mayo Clinic on early detection of coronary artery disease, a key trigger of heart attacks.
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Biotech, Univ. Labs Test Psychoactive Drug as PTSD Therapy
A developer of treatments with psychedelic compounds for brain disorders is partnering with a lab at Yale University to assess methylone as a PTSD therapy.