NSIV Newsletter – March 2019 Find out more about: NSIV Member Spotlight – See Yourself Health Chris Ilsley – BBJ Op Ed SPARK Program Hosted by NSIV North Shore Chamber Visits New Lab Equipment from Andersen Products Our Companies are Making News What Happening Around the North Shore & Boston Read the newsletter in your browser orRead more
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In 2015, Dr. Suzanne Mitchell received a $3.5M research grant to test the efficacy of virtual reality in helping patients manage their diabetes. This was the genesis of See Yourself Health, a startup utilizing online social gaming to help patients live healthier lives with type 2 diabetes. See Yourself Health is an explorable 3D environmentRead more
NEHC, the New England Hydropower Company, was started in 2012 in response to an overlooked market sector within the renewable energy hydropower industry. “I was looking to do something new and innovative in renewable energy,” CEO Michael Kerr explains. “During my research I came across the Archimedes hydro-screw turbine. It’s a piece of generating equipmentRead more
NSIV Newsletter – February 2019 Find out more about: NSIV Member Spotlight – New England Hydropower IVIVA Adds a Senior Scientist NSIV By the Numbers seqWell in the News A Cool Piece of History Read the newsletter in your browser or open it as a PDF.Read more
NSIV Newsletter – January 2019 Find out more about: NSIV Member Spotlight – Lariat Biosciences Virtech Bio Graduates Fall Interns Present Yankee Swap In the News Read the newsletter in your browser or open it as a PDF.Read more
Lariat Biosciences Spotlight It is no surprise that development investments into liquid biopsies has surged recently. They offer easily repeatable, noninvasive genetic characterization of cancers, even informing personalized treatment for later stage disease. However, the approach has traditionally been limited to advanced cancer; the challenge of detecting vanishingly small numbers of biomarkers thwarts its usageRead more
End-stage renal disease, or kidney failure, affects over 500,000 patients in the United States. A transplant is the only definitive treatment, yet most patients spend years on the waitlist with little hope of receiving a donor kidney in time. IVIVA Medical could revolutionize this longstanding issue by creating an artificial kidney — a device manufacturedRead more
NSIV Newsletter – November 2018 Find out more about: NSIV Member Spotlight – IVIVA Medical NSIV Markets Soft Landings Program Events, News and Updates Read the newsletter in your browser or open it as a PDF.Read more
NSIV Newsletter – October 2018 Find out more about: NSIV Member Spotlight –Inovotion InBIA Soft Landings Designation – Update Welcome Erica Pratt, New Lab Manager Tom is our IRONMAN Events, News and Updates Read the newsletter in your browser or open it as a PDF.Read more
“If I could describe INOVOTION in one sentence,” says Olivier Baverey, INOVOTION’s US representative; “it would be accelerating research in oncology, while minimizing costs and risk.” INOVOTION began operations in 2014, after 5 years of R&D and more than 150 studies based in Grenoble, France. The company’s founder, Professor Jean Viallet, developed their technology atRead more