Category Archives: BioUtah News
PhotoPharmics Innovations Address Global Health Inequalities
PhotoPharmics has announced its intent to leverage its FDA breakthrough device designation, potential streamlined Medicare coverage under CMS’ pending Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology (MCIT) rule and global delivery channels to deliver its treatments for Parkinson’s and neurodegenerative diseases to individuals regardless of their location or income. Innovation not only brings improved treatments to address […]
Innovative Med Tech Startup Xenter Announces Company Launch
Xenter has announced its formal launch in Salt Lake City. Founded in 2020 by seasoned life sciences entrepreneur Richard J. Linder, Xenter is innovating new wireless technologies and techniques for the treatment of heart and vascular disease. The company’s next-generation devices will integrate functions that formerly required multiple costly devices. “We are bringing the world’s […]
Utah’s Recursion Goes Public – Announces Pricing of IPO
Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $18.00 per share. Recursion is offering 24,242,424 shares of its Class A common stock. The gross proceeds from the offering are expected to be $436.4 million. The shares are expected to […]
IONIQ Sciences Awarded Another Patent
IONIQ Sciences was awarded another patent for “an apparatus for providing information that is useful in the diagnosis of a malignant lung lesion.” IONIQ’s newest Notice of Allowance by the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China (SIPO) covers critical advancements and refinements to our proprietary algorithm, which calculates the likelihood a […]
IONIQ Sciences Announces Dr. Raphael E. Pollock Has Joined Its Medical Advisory Committee
IONIQ Sciences, Inc. recently announced that Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD, FACS has joined its Medical Advisory Committee. Dr. Pollock is an award-winning surgical oncologist, extensively published physician- scientist, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Surgical Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center and currently the Director of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center (OSUCCC). […]
The Element Awards 2021: LIfe Sciences Women in Business Honored
The St. George Area Chamber of Commerce hosted the First Annual Element Awards recognizing sixteen outstanding women of achievement in Washington County. The inaugural event was held March 26 at the Dixie Convention Center. These women, including women on the front lines of the life sciences, are building a legacy that future generations will emulate […]
BioHive Spotlight: Jeffery Nelson, Nelson Labs
Nelson Labs started in Utah and has grown under the leadership of Jeffery Nelson, Chairman of Nelson Labs. BIoHive turns the spotlight on Jeffery in this video as he talks about the company, its contributions to the life sciences industry and what it means to be a part. of BioHive. Nelson is “helping those innovators, […]
FDA Permits Marketing of BioFire COVID-19 Diagnostic Test Using Traditional Premarket Review Process
On March 17, the FDA granted marketing authorization of the BioFire Respiratory Panel 2.1 (RP2.1), a diagnostic test for the simultaneous qualitative detection and identification of multiple respiratory viral and bacterial nucleic acids in nasopharyngeal swabs (NPS) obtained from individuals suspected of COVID-19 and other respiratory tract infections. The diagnostic test, which had an Emergency […]
Utah Legislature Appropriates $600,000 to support BioHive initiative
On the last day of the Utah legislative session, the legislature passed SB 2 “New Fiscal Year Supplemental Appropriations Act”. Among the items funded was $600,000 to support the BioHive branding initiative. In SB 3 entitled “Appropriations Adjustments” the language makes clear that the amount of the $600,000 to be released is dependent on 1:1 matching from […]
Utah’s Biomerics Announces Expansion of Texas, Costa Rica Operations
Biomerics, headquartered in Salt Lake City, and a leading mid-market medical device contract manufacturer, has announced it is expanding its manufacturing footprint in Athens, TX where Biomerics FMI is a vertically integrated high volume catheter development and manufacturing leader in the attractive PTA, Endourology, and Endoscopy markets. The Texas expansion totals 24,000 sq. ft. including […]
IONIQ Sciences Finalist in National ‘Buzz of BIO’ Awards
Utah’s own IONIQ Sciences was named a finalist for the prestigious ‘Buzz of BIO 2021’ award in the ‘Diagnostic and Beyond’ category. Although IONIQ did not win the category, being among the top finalists is a signiicant distinction. Placement was determined by companies receiving the most votes. “We’re on a mission to modernize cancer detection […]
Co-Diagnostics, Inc. Partner to Offer At-Home Saliva Collection Kits for CoPrimer™-Based COVID-19 PCR Test Through Walgreens Find Care®
Co-Diagnostics has announced that laboratory partner Clinical Reference Laboratory’s (CRL) FDA-authorized Rapid Response COVID-19 Saliva Test, which uses Co-Diagnostics CoPrimer™ technology, is now available through Walgreens Find Care®, allowing consumers a convenient, non-invasive option for PCR-based COVID-19 testing from their own. Dwight Egan, Co-Diagnostics CEO, stated, “Co-Diagnostics is proud that our technology will be available […]
