Reglagene Holding, Inc. was selected as an Innovation Excellence winner of the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC). The FCSC is a nationwide contest dedicated to startups that better prevent, diagnose, treat, and cure cancers. Winners of the Cancer Startup Challenge were selected by a multi-disciplinary judging panel, comprised of industry experts, potential investors, philanthropists, […]
Evan Unger, MD, President and CEO of NuvOx Pharma, announced that NuvOx has received a $2M Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Cancer Institute to fund the development of a new strategy to detect pancreatic cancer. The grant, 2R44CA203090-02, entitled “Thy-1 targeted microbubbles for early detection of pancreatic cancer,” is […]
GammaTile Therapy is the Next Step in the Expansion of Cesium to Additional Markets IsoRay, Inc. (NYSE American: ISR), a medical technology company and innovator in seed brachytherapy and medical radioisotope applications for the treatment of prostate, brain, lung, head and neck and gynecological cancers and GT Medical Technologies, Inc., today announced the receipt of […]
Regulonix, LLC, a University of Arizona biotechnology start-up company focused on developing non-opioid therapeutics to relieve chronic pain, today announced seed investment of $2 million. UAVenture Capital Fund, LLC, the Tucson-based early stage capital fund dedicated to commercializing University of Arizona (UA) technology, led the seed round, with participation from Tucson’s Desert Angels, one of the country’s […]
Tucson-based startup Vector Launch has garnered some valuable brand awareness recently, but the time for talk is ending, CEO Jim Cantrell says. The media-savvy Cantrell has been popping up on TV and other media outlets to talk about the company as it works toward its goal of launching mini-satellites into orbit later this year. Cantrell […]
Three US-based spinouts from University of Arizona (UA) have raised $2m on average from the UAVenture Capital Fund (UAVC), a venture capital firm focused on the university’s intellectual property, Tucson.com reported today. http://www.globaluniversityventuring.com/article.php/6957/uavc-selects-first-three-spinouts
A new, early stage venture capital firm aimed at supporting University of Arizona technology spinoffs has made its first three investments. UA Venture Capital Fund LLC, founded earlier this year by Tucson businessmen Fletcher McCusker and Michael Deitch, made investments in startups Codelucida, which has developed error-correction technology for data storage drives; Regulonix, which is […]
POMPANO BEACH, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Stimwave LLC, a medical device manufacturer and independent research institute headquartered in South Florida, today announced the appointment of industry veteran Steven Amelio to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Amelio is a senior financial executive with 30 years of experience in the medical device industry. Over his 20 year career […]
(GT Medical) MedTech Innovator, the premier nonprofit startup accelerator in the medical technology industry, today announced that 50 companies have been selected to participate in the organization’s four-month 2018 program, featuring the industry’s most promising medical technologies from around the globe. The 2018 cohort features 25 early-stage and 25 mid-stage companies with transformative device, diagnostic, […]
Salutaris Medical Devices, Inc. announced the first subject was treated in a multi-center clinical trial investigating the use of its ophthalmic brachytherapy device to treat neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration (nAMD) on May 23, 2018. Dr. Gregg Kokame, Principal Investigator (PI) at the clinical site in Honolulu successfully performed the first procedure using the SMD-DA device on May […]