In 2012, there were fewer than 1,400 maternal-fetal medicine specialists in the United States, and 98% resided inmetropolitan areas.
This left pregnant patients in rural areas without the ability to access care, especially if travel was not an option.
Today, telehealth can be used to fill that gap – but providers still may face challenges in ensuring patients get the services they need.
George Petrocheilos and R. Jacob Vogelstein have left Camden Partners to continue to lead the newly independent fund as its managing partners.
Image: George Petrocheilos and R. Jacob Vogelstein are the managing partners of venture investment fund Catalio Capital Management LP. MARK DENNIS
BALTIMORE, MD, June 24, 2020 – AsclepiX Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that uses computational biology to identify potent peptide regulators of vascular homeostasis for the treatment of retinal and other important diseases, today announced that it has closed a $35 million Series A financing led by Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund (“PXV Fund”) with participation from the Perceptive Life Sciences Fund, both funds managed by Perceptive Advisors, and existing investors Rapha Capital Management and Barer & Son Capital.
Dear Innovator,
Happy Pride Month! It’s hard to believe it’s almost July. While we’re facing many challenges here in both Washington, DC and in the U.S., the team and I continued to stay busy while working from home over these past few months.
I wanted to take some time to update you on JLABS @ Washington, DC and our activity. Recently I visited the site and was encouraged to see the progress. The construction team has been hard at work even during these tough times and I am very thankful for those working on the front lines, to include our construction workers, during COVID.
In response to medical data highlighting the serious impact of COVID-19 on children’s health, Children’s National is partnering with the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) on a special pitch competition focused on COVID-19 related pediatric medical devices. “Make your Medical Device Pitch for Kids! – COVID-19 edition” is seeking devices that support home health monitoring and telehealth and improve sustainability, resiliency, and readiness in diagnosing and treating children during a pandemic.
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Southeast Life Sciences, the organization behind 400 presentations, 790 funding transactions, and $5.2B in investments from 500 distinct investors is going virtual for a special edition of PitchRounds.
SE PitchRounds is Southeast Life Sciences presentation program. This special PitchRounds event is intended for companies in the southeast United States that are working on products, services, etc. that are addressing a need related to Covid-19. If you have any questions about eligibility, please contact Jason Rupp at jrupp@southeastlifesciences.org
GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Altimmune, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced it was awarded $4.7 million from the U.S. Army Medical Research & Development Command (USAMRDC) to fund its Phase 1/2 clinical trial of T-COVID, an investigational intranasal immune modulator for the treatment of outpatients with early COVID-19. The competitive award was granted by USAMRDC in collaboration with the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC), a 501(c)(3) biomedical technology consortium working in partnership with the Department of Defense (DoD). The award is expected to provide Altimmune sufficient funding to cover the entire cost of conducting this clinical trial.
A drug company trying to save infants’ lives, a university center protecting hospitals from hackers, a tech company building extreme drones: three groups in the region are getting a cash boost from a fund that spurs innovation in Virginia.
Of the 26 tech companies and four universities receiving grants this year from the Center for Innovative Technology’s Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund, three are from this region: ReAlta Life Sciences, Old Dominion University and Sentinel Robotic Solutions.
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It’s not an understatement to say that the entire nation’s hopes are focused on what’s happening in a Maryland laboratory – step one in manufacturing a potential coronavirus vaccine.
Sean Kirk, executive vice president of Emergent BioSolutions, explained to correspondent Martha Teichner how a bioreactor is used to create the ingredients needed in the development and testing of a vaccine for clinical trials already underway in Australia. “This is where it begins, to produce the hundreds of millions of doses,” he said.
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The World Health Organization said on Friday that AstraZeneca’s experimental Covid-19 vaccine is the world’s leading candidate and reached the final stage in terms of development, Reuters reported.
AstraZeneca, a potential vaccine for coronavirus which is being developed by the researchers at the University of Oxford, has entered in large-scale, mid-stage human trials of the vaccine. This week, AstraZeneca signed its tenth supply-and-manufacturing deal.
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