Johns Hopkins researchers on Thursday unveiled a new medical research app that could help them better detect and manage epileptic seizures. The free app, called EpiWatch, is designed for the Apple Watch and iPhones. The app will collect data from patients before, during and after a seizure. Researchers are hopeful that after collecting data for one or two years, they will be able to develop an app that can detect most seizure types and generate an alert to call for help, if needed.
Malvern, Pennsylvania-based Galera Therapeutics, a biotech company focused on treating cancer patients, has closed $37 million in Series B funding. Novo Ventures led the round with participation from previous backers New Enterprise Associates, Novartis Venture Fund, Correlation Ventures and Galera Angels. In conjunction with the funding, Dr. Thomas Dyrberg, a managing partner of Novo Ventures, has been added to Galera’s board of directors.
People can lose their hearing for a variety of reasons, from age to loud noises, but there’s one thing they all have in common. There are no drugs to help them. Several companies have formed in recent years to address this gap, and now there’s another coming to the party a bit late, but with deep pockets—a new startup called Decibel Therapeutics, which is embarking on a broad effort to figure out what makes us go deaf in the first place.
Brian Stansky is the new director of Johns Hopkins’ incubator program for startups, according to a letter sent to colleagues from Christy Wyskiel, senior advisor to the president of Johns Hopkins on entrepreneurship and tech transfer. Nina Urban was appointed as associate director of the program.
Stansky served as interim director of the program for the last two months. He previously worked for 13 years as managing director at Integral Capital Partners, and oversaw health, sciences and media/telecom portfolios at T. Rowe Price.
Join REDI on October 22nd from 8:00-10:00am for the second edition of the Commercial Broker Breakfast (CBB). The CBB event combines networking and a mini trade show that includes local architects, bankers, contractors, interior designers, and other related vendors.
This year’s event is highlighted by a discussion with Benjamin Wu, Deputy Secretary for the Maryland Department of Commerce.
AstraZeneca’s ($AZN) MedImmune is joining the likes of Vanderbilt University and GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) as a member of the Human Vaccines Project, the company announced Tuesday.
The public-private partnership, incubated at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), aims to accelerate the development of vaccines and immunotherapies against major infectious diseases and cancers “by decoding the human immune system.”
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Large pharmaceutical companies are often on the lookout for small strategic acquisitions of companies that have a promising pipeline candidate in their portfolio. Sometimes, acquiring a company with a promising early-stage candidate makes sense instead of developing a product from scratch, which involves a lot of time.
Swiss oncology major Roche RHHBY is all set to acquire a privately held biotechnology company, Adheron Therapeutics. Based in Berkeley, CA, Adheron has developed a revolutionary technology that disrupts cell adhesion to treat a variety of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and fibrotic diseases through a cell surface protein called Cadherin-11.
23andMe has raised a substantial $115 million in a series E round led by Fidelity Management and Research Company, with participation from new investors Casdin Capital, WuXi Healthcare Ventures, and Xfund, as well as existing investors such as Google Ventures.
The personal genomics and biotechnology company was founded in 2006 by Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google cofounder Sergey Brin. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company had already raised $126 million prior to today’s announcement, and boasts a slew of big-name investors, including Google, Google Ventures, Sergey Brin, and Yuri Milner.
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) today named six public research institutions as finalists for its third annual Innovation & Economic Prosperity (IEP) University Awards. The winners will be announced on November 17 at the association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis. The finalists — Auburn University, Clemson University, Ohio University, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, and University of Minnesota — are competing for four different awards that recognize different components of economic engagement. The award categories include talent, innovation, place, and connections.
