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– VenoStent, Inc., a medical device company pioneering a new approach to improve dialysis patient outcomes, announced the successful completion of its Series A funding round. The round closed at $20M,…
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By Shania Kennedy
June 07, 2024 – Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have been awarded a five-year, $4.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of…
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HHS/NIH’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) offers up to $50 million to fund development of technology that can secure hospital IT environments.
The system, which it calls UPGRADE, will scan hospital computer…
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– Nanopath Inc., a point-of-care diagnostics company enabling high-quality molecular testing in minutes, announced today that it was awarded $4 million in federal funding.
– The company was awarded a $3 million grant…
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– Wysa, a leading provider of digital mental health platforms, has been selected as a sub-awardee for a $3.4M grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the…
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– Phenomix Sciences (Phenomix), a precision medicine biotechnology company that brings data intelligence to the treatment of obesity, has secured $5.5 million in Series A funding from new investors, DexCom, Inc….
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Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have developed an artificial intelligence tool that predicts whether a patient will respond to cancer treatment drugs using individual…
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By Shania Kennedy
April 01, 2024 – George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) have been awarded a two-year, $839,000 National Institutes of Health…
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The NIH-backed study exposes how COVID-19 induces heart damage via inflammation rather than direct infection. Investigating SARS-CoV-2-associated ARDS, researchers find cardiac macrophage dysregulation, irrespective of viral presence. They discern that severe lung inflammation alone…
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By Shania Kennedy
March 11, 2024 – Researchers from Mount Sinai have been awarded a four-year, $3 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop…
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