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BIO Partnering at JPM

By admin | Published December 8, 2020

Maximize Your Time During JPM Week with BIO One-on-One Partnering™ BIO One-on-One Partnering is your virtual partnering and business development companion, with integrated video conferencing and more biotechnology-specific search filters & therapeutic categories than any other major platform to help you target potential partners faster than ever.  Learn more about BIO One-on-One Partnering → Participating in BIO […]

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BioUtah Letter on Prioritizing Life Sciences Workers for Vaccine Distribution

By admin | Published December 7, 2020

December 3, 2020 Mr. Rich Lakin, MSPH, MPA Immunizations Director Utah Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology PO Box 142102 Salt Lake City, UT 84114-2102 Dear Director Lakin: As a state plan for the allocation of COVID-19 vaccinations is formulated, BioUtah urges you to include employees of Utah’s life sciences companies among priority recipients of […]

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BIO to Issue Legal Challenge to Most Favored Nation Rule

By admin | Published December 4, 2020

A letter written by BIO’s president and CEO Michelle McMurry-Heath dated December 4, 2020.  Dear BIO Members, Today BIO, together with California Life Sciences Association (CLSA) and BIOCOM California, will announce our plan to challenge the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) attempt, during the final days of the Trump Administration, to implement for […]

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A Farewell Message from GOED’s Val Hale

By admin | Published December 4, 2020

I frequently remind my team and legislators that economic development is a journey, not a destination. And what a journey it has been for me the last six-and-a-half years! When Gov. Gary Herbert asked me to take this job in 2014, Utah was still feeling the residual effects of the Great Recession. However, our economy […]

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BraveHeart Wireless Partners with iKure and IBM

By admin | Published December 3, 2020

The three companies have partnered together to bring wearable BraveHeart patches to at-risk patient’s in India’s remote “last mile.” Read the full article from CNN here.

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New Embolic Device Used in Interventional Oncology for Highly Targeted Tumor Treatment

By admin | Published November 25, 2020

Novel Interventional Oncology Embolization Device Successfully Used in Trans-Radial Access Procedures for Tumor Devascularization November 24, 2020 – Fluidx Medical Technology reported successful patient use of the GPX Embolic Device to therapeutically devascularize, or block blood supply to, a tumor. “We are impressed with the GPX embolic,” said Andrew Holden, M.D., MBChB, FRANZCR, EBIR, ONZM, […]

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COVID-19 Vaccination Briefing From the State of Utah.

By admin | Published November 20, 2020

View the briefing below: COVID-19 Vaccination Update_11-17-2020

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University of Utah to Speed Process of Bringing New Therapeutics to Patients

By admin | Published November 20, 2020

University of Utah Partners for Innovation, Ventures, Outreach & Technology (PIVOT) Center: Nov 18, 2020 10:00 AM The university’s Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI), College of Pharmacy, and the Partners for Innovation, Ventures, Outreach & Technology (PIVOT) Center have partnered to establish the University of Utah Therapeutics Accelerator Hub (U2TAH, or the Accelerator). Photo credit: University […]

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U named Innovation and Economic Prosperity University

By admin | Published November 13, 2020

Article Courtesy of @theU The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) awarded the University of Utah the Innovation and Economic Prosperity designation, which recognizes universities that promote growth, innovation and economic development in their regions. “This is tremendous recognition of the important role the University of Utah plays as an economic engine for our state,” […]

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Transit Scientifc’s New Angioplasty System Dilates Calcified & Fibrotic Vessels

By admin | Published November 12, 2020

Transit Scientific’s new FDA cleared XO Score system was successfully used to dilate multiple challenging fibrotic and calcific lesions in hemodialysis patients with stenotic and occluded fistulas. Dr. Richard Saxon, FSIR and member of the SDI Medical Group, while working at  Tri City Medical Center Medical Center,  Oceanside, California, USA performed the first procedures using […]

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BioUtah Launches BioHive Initiative to Promote Utah’s Life Sciences Industry

By admin | Published November 9, 2020

Article courtesy of BusinessWire Local leaders to create ecosystem for innovation, job creation, and growth SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Since 2012, Utah’s life sciences community has grown faster than any other in the country. Through collective efforts of the more than 1,100 life sciences-related companies (and growing), it intends to continue that trend and join the […]

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Quansys Biosciences Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for its SARS-CoV-2 IgG Antibody Test that Provides Exceptional Clinical Performance

By admin | Published November 6, 2020

Logan, UT, October 28, 2020 – Quansys Biosciences announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its laboratory-based IgG antibody test. A positive IgG antibody result identifies patients who have been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and, as part of their recovery, demonstrated an adaptive […]

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