Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD, the Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine and director of the Center for Genetic Medicine, has been awarded the 2023 Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence.
Behavioral health-focused virtual reality company Floreo has acquired Autism Eyes, an autism diagnostic tool developed by Cleveland Clinic Innovations. This news coincides with an announcement that Cleveland Clinic has made a strategic investment in Floreo.
Leaders from Fortune 500 companies, tech start-ups, and universities joined Governor JB Pritzker Monday to announce a plan to make Chicago the nation’s “quantum technology capital” at M-Hub, a business incubator on Chicago’s Near West Side.
Autism treatment has been a frequent target of private-equity disruption, but it's less common to see a health system's venture arm wade into the space.
Yobee was one of 16 Chicagoland CEOs giving 1-minute elevator pitches on April 2, 2024, at the Start-up Showcase & Board Member Match-up event at the Women in Bio (WIB) - 3.8 Initiative at Portal Innovations, LLC.
Ikaika was one of 16 Chicagoland CEOs giving 1-minute elevator pitches on April 2, 2024, at the Start-up Showcase & Board Member Match-up event at the Women in Bio (WIB) - 3.8 Initiative at Portal Innovations, LLC.
Behavioral health-focused virtual reality company Floreo has acquired Autism Eyes, an autism diagnostic tool developed by Cleveland Clinic Innovations. This news coincides with an announcement that Cleveland Clinic has made a strategic investment in Floreo.
The Phoenix Center, a school for kids with disabilities, is using virtual reality to try to ease the journey of airport travel by leveraging Floreo's VR technology and the Meta Quest 2 headset.
Cambridge Cognition, which acquired Winterlight Labs in 2023, establishes a Scientific Advisory Board comprising experts in cognitive science and clinical trials to guide the integration of emerging trends like blood-based biomarkers and collaborative assessments.
Vivoryon Therapeutics N.V. is conducting an in-depth analysis of their Phase 2b results, including analyses of additional pre-specified exploratory endpoints (e.g. Winterlight Labs speech assessment) and distinct patient cohorts as defined in the statistical analysis plan.
New research shows talking speed might be a more telling indicator of cognitive decline and dementia than the occasional struggle to find words, with methods including analyzing speech patterns with AI-based software developed in collaboration with Winterlight Labs.
mHUB Cuts Ribbon at New Chicago Headquarters and Celebrates Public-Private Collaborations to Accelerate the Commercialization of Transformative Tech for the Physical World
The Chicago Biomedical Consortium showcased promising new biotech innovations at the Chicago BioCapital Summit that took place at Portal Innovations on November 2, 2023, including Ikaika's own CSO Dr. Alexis Demonbreun speaking about Ikaika's anti-fibrotic biologic technology.
Yobee published their second clinical trial with our ScalpMask in pediatrics in Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology, demonstrating that Yobee is safe and effective for kids and adults
Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD, the Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine and director of the Center for Genetic Medicine, has been awarded the 2023 Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence.
Geneius Biotechnology, Inc., an immuno-oncology company developing a best-in-class personalized RNA-enabled T cell therapy platform for solid and liquid cancers, announced they will present at the upcoming 2023 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting.
mHUB, one of the nation’s leading independent hardtech innovation and manufacturing centers, has selected the startup teams that will participate in the premier cohort of its 6-month, hands-on accelerator for high-potential medical device businesses.
England’s Cambridge Cognition has acquired Canadian company Winterlight Labs Inc for £7m to help target a $220 million market for speech-based biomarkers.
mHUB hosted Demo Day events on May 18th & 19th and welcomed investors and industry partners as they met with 9 medtech startups who entered the mHUB Accelerator program last November 2021.
A Northwestern University spinout that's working to treat chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases has raised a seed round of funding from some notable investors.