How academia and biotech can team up to bring impactful new drug therapies to patients faster

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The MedCity INVEST conference is scheduled for May 21-22 at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Chicago, The companies will offer a window into some of the promising treatments under development such as different types of cancers to muscular dystrophy. Space is limited so register today!

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The new era of full-stack compute-enabled bio companies will drive incredible advances in human health.

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I didn’t make it to this year’s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, so I reached out to leaders from across the industry to hear how it went and learn about their takeaways from the event. This is a list of the nine most interesting responses that I received.

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Each track will spotlight a different specialty area including: oncology, cardiology, women’s health and preventing burnout/supporting operational efficiency.

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Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.

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Healthcare M&A deals are expected to pick up over the next few months, and one expert is predicting that the biopharma sector in particular will see especially robust activity. M&A lawyer Matt Gardella said there are three sets of market circumstances that will lead to an influx of biopharma deals: a looming patent cliff, shrinking valuations and a weak IPO market.

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Startups feature prominently at MedCity INVEST from Pitch Perfect to Ask the Investor. Check out the investors who will be judging the startups at INVEST May 22-24 in Chicago and register today!

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Read about executive hires across healthcare and life science companies and organizations such as ProofPilot, Genentech, MassBio, Virgin Pulse, and more.

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The French delegation at BIO on June 13-16 has a compelling story to tell about biopharma and medtech growth and investment in France and the U.S. Here’s a preview of some of the companies that will be at the convention, events they will host and why you should check them out.

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As artificial intelligence becomes more focused and efficient, and the pharmaceutical and biotech industries consolidate to survive, it’s important to also reflect on what is working in the fight against Covid-19. This will help us to be more prepared for the next global health crisis.

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Read about news from Equiva, DNA Script, Healthmine, Infermedica, and more.

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Read news from Carrum Health, Healthmine, 1upHealth, and more.

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Read about new developments from HealthMine, TailorMed, Heru and Entos.

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Read news from healthcare and life science companies including HealthMine, Zus Health, Sema4 and more.

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Read about new developments from Stellar Health, Paige, venBio, and more.

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Read about new developments from Blue Therapeutics, Docbot, Sema4, and Deep Lens.

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The five life sciences IPOs this week continues the steady march companies are making to the public markets this year. This week’s activity follows a first quarter that Renaissance Capital calculates was the busiest for newly public companies since 2000. Healthcare IPOs continued to dominate the stock offerings.

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In response to emailed questions, the CEO and CTO talk about the immune intelligence startup’s Human Immunity Map — a growing database of immune interactions that can support the development of multiplex diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics.

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Cellino Biotech CEO and Co-founder Dr. Nabiha Saklayen talked about the formation of the company and its goal to make stem cell therapies accessible for patients.

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More healthcare startups are choosing to go public through mergers with special-purpose acquisition companies— publicly-traded shell companies created with the purpose of taking a private company public. But as the number of SPACs searching for targets increases, will the SPAC bubble burst?

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Check out new developments from healthcare startups including Bind, ChromaCode and more.

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Read about new developments and milestones in the journey of healthcare startups from Truvian Sciences, NeuroFlow and more.

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Read about new developments from healthcare startups including HealCo, Eikonoklastes, Sidecar Health and more.

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MedCity News will host its INVEST conference online the week of July 20. These five biopharma companies will take part in the INVEST Pitch Perfect startup competition.

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Higi, a company that makes health kiosks for use in grocery stores, raised $30 million in funding from Babylon Health. Read more about companies that raised funding this week.

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In an interview with MedCity News, the founder and CSO of Spanish biotech startup Libera Bio talked about her company’s ambitions to apply its precision medicine technologies for the treatment of different types of cancer.

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Despite continued economic impacts from the Covid-19 pandemic, biotechnology companies and VC firms raised significant amounts of funding this week. For example, Massachusetts-based Pandion Therapeutics closed $80 million in funding to develop a therapeutic designed to treat autoimmune diseases.

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The increased patient-centric focus in drug development by the FDA is highly encouraging and expected to become more mainstream and legislated. 

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A new eBook from MedCity News spotlights some of the more interesting deals and trends this year across digital health and biopharma. 

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