Category: Finance
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Crowdfunded Digital Health Investment Fund Launches
An investment fund raising its capital through crowdfunding began operations this week to back start-up enterprises developing digital health technologies.
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Lilly, Institute Partner on Tuberculosis Drug Discovery
Drug maker Eli Lilly and Company is continuing its collaboration with Infectious Disease Research Institute to discovery new drugs that treat tuberculosis.
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Institutes, Companies Form Business to Bridge Discovery Gap
Three research institutions with pharmaceutical and venture capital companies are creating a new enterprise to fill the drug development gap between proof-of-concept and initial clinical trials.
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Google Acquires Visual Interaction Tech Company
Google is acquiring Eyefluence Inc., developer of a technology that allows individuals to interact with computers, phones, and other devices using only their eyes.
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Virtual Reality Game in Development for Vision Disorder
An engineering lab at New Jersey Institute of Technology is creating a virtual reality therapy game to treat children with binocular vision dysfunction.
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Start-Up to Commercialize New Parkinson’s Treatment
Mavalon Therapeutics, a new company in the U.K., is being formed to bring a treatment to market that stops the progression of Parkinson’s disease.
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Therapeutic Food-Triggered Gut Microbes in Development
A biologist at Rice University in Houston is developing synthetic intestinal microbe circuits that respond to food to release therapeutic proteins.
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Funds Provided for Developing RNA-Based Zika Vaccine
Researchers from Infectious Disease Research Institute, or Idri, are receiving funding from National Institutes of Health to develop a new type of vaccine for the Zika virus.
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Grant Funding Study of Gut Microbe Protection Drug
A biotechnology company developing drugs that protect the natural microbial balance in the gastrointestinal tract is receiving funds to learn how its drugs affect antibiotic resistance.
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Fuel Cell Vehicles Reach Market, Seek Critical Mass
As the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicles go on sale, a group of companies and government agencies are seeking ways to encourage sales to help meet national goals for reducing greenhouse gases.