Author Archives: Blaire Wachter

Blocking a Cell Receptor Could Protect Against Deadly Disease. Hantaviruses cause severe and sometimes fatal respiratory infections, but how they infect lung cells has been a mystery. In today’s issue of Nature, an international team reports that hantaviruses gain entry to lung cells by “unlocking” a cell-surface receptor called protocadherin-1 (PCDH1). Deleting this receptor made […]

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Recursion Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company that combines artificial intelligence (AI), experimental biology, and automation to discover and develop drugs at scale, has been awarded a 2018 Top Workplaces award by The Salt Lake Tribune. The honor coincides with the official opening of Recursion’s expansive new research and development (R&D) facility […]

Dr. Shuren will take the stage as the luncheon keynote at the 2018 BioUtah Utah Life Sciences Summit, speaking to the state’s premier gathering of industry leaders, innovators, government officials, educators, and investors September 14, 2018 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BioUtah, Utah’s only trade association dedicated solely to the life sciences community, […]

Registration opens today for the 2018 BioUtah ULSS, offering early bird discounts. Preliminary speaker line-up includes notable business leaders, policy makers and members of the investor community Salt Lake City, UT – September 5, 2018 – BioUtah, Utah’s one and only association dedicated to the life sciences community, today announced that registration is open for […]

BioUtah is pleased to share with you the newly released study by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute on the impact of Utah’s life sciences industry on the state’s economy. The study, the “Economic Impacts of Utah’s Life Sciences Industry” can be viewed in full here. The Gardner Policy Institute announced the study’s findings this […]

Please join us and Global Genes on Saturday, June 30th for RARE on the Road Rare Disease Leadership Tour in Salt Lake City, Utah. This conference will educate rare disease patients, caregivers and other advocates through collaboration in an interactive and engaging environment.

Joins us for a timely update from Brian Carey, Partner, Foley Hoag, on reimbursement trends for precision medicine and Kim Linthicum, Vice President of Government Affairs, Myriad, on proposed legislation that would create a new regulatory pathway for diagnostics.

The MedTech Conference will take place on September 24th – 26th 2018 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.

The Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization at the University of Utah announced a new funding program for early stage technology development and commercialization.