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Xenocor Granted Breakthrough Technology Agreement with Premier Inc.

Xenoscope New Disposable Fog-Free Laparoscopic System Made Available to 4,000 Healthcare Facilities in the USA SALT LAKE CITY, October 5, 2020–– Xenocor, Inc. offering the world’s first disposable articulating laparoscope, has received a group purchasing agreement with Premier Inc. for their single use Xenoscope™, in the surgical disposable scope category. The Xenocor disposable laparoscopic system […]

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Mountain Pacific Venture Fund Invests in Laparoscopic Device Company Xenocor

For Immediate Release Xenocor’s single-use laparoscope, Xenoscope, increases access to minimally invasive surgical care Salt Lake City, October 5, 2020 – Mountain Pacific Venture Fund (MPVF) announced an investment in Xenocor, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based medical device company that has developed the Xenoscope™, a single-use, multi-purpose HD laparoscope with an integrated light source. Designed […]

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Utah Business Magazine Recognizes Recursion’s Tina Larson, Civica’s Heather Wall Among Utah’s Top C-Suite Executives

Recursion’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Tina Larson, and Civica’s Chief Commercial Officer, Heather Wall, were recently recognized by Utah Business Magazine as among Utah’s top C-Suite executives. In introducing the 2020 CXO of the Year honorees, the magazine notes that “now more than ever we need strong leaders to guide our businesses forward and […]

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Foldax Named Finalist in the Fierce Innovation Awards

Salt Lake City-based Foldax® was a finalist in the recent Fierce Innovation Awards – Life Sciences Edition 2020, a peer-reviewed awards program from the publisher of Fierce Biotech and Fierce Pharma. The company was selected as a finalist for its innovative TriaTM heart valve. The Tria valve reimagines the heart valve by incorporating a new, […]

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Alucent Biomedical Announces $35 Million Series B Financing

Alucent Biomedical, a Salt Lake-City based company and BioUtah member, founded to transform the way vascular disease is treated, yesterday announced the close of a $35 million Series B financing round. The funding will support two clinical trials to evaluate Alucent’s novel treatment for peripheral artery disease (PAD) of the lower extremities. PAD is a […]

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RenalytixAI Reaches Milestone of KidneyIntelX Commercial Testing with Mount Sinai Health System

Salt Lake City-based RenalytixAI, today announced the commercial launch of the KidneyIntelX clinical test reporting platform within the Mount Sinai Health System. This means that KidneyIntelX risk assessment of progressive decline in kidney function or kidney failure, including education support for treating clinicians, is now commercially available for patients with early stage diabetic kidney disease […]

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Clene Nanomedicine, Inc. Completes Enrollment in Rescue-ALS Clinical Trial for Treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) with Lead Nanocatalytic Therapeutic, CNM-Au8

Clene Nanomedicine, Inc., (“Clene”) a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company and its Australian subsidiary, Clene Australia Pty Ltd., on Tuesday announced the completion of patient enrollment in its RESCUE-ALS Phase 2 study. The multi-center study is designed to evaluate the efficacy, safety, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of CNM-Au8 in early symptomatic ALS patients. The objective of this study […]

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Inherent Biosciences Wins $256K NSF Grant to predict COVID-19 infection severity and treatment response

Inherent Biosciences, a biotechnology company headquartered in Salt Lake City has announced a $255,959 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study epigenetic biomarkers to predict patient response to COVID-19. The SBIR Phase I project aims to develop an onsite, clinical test to screen incoming patients potentially infected with COVID-19. The test would predict […]

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Bayer Collaborates with Recursion to Strengthen Digital Drug Discovery and Advance New Therapies for Fibrotic Diseases

By Chris Gibson, PhD via Recursion – Drug discovery partnership and equity investment led by Leaps by Bayer in Series D financing round – Digitally-powered drug discovery to address fibrotic diseases with previously undiscovered mechanisms and to deliver novel therapies to patients faster Berlin, Germany and Salt Lake City, USA, September 9, 2020 – Bayer and […]

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BioUtah Statement on Launch of Altitude Lab, Largest Life Sciences Incubator in Utah

Recursion and University of Utah found incubator to propel new generation of life sciences in the region August 12, 2020 04:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BioUtah President and CEO, Kelvyn Cullimore, issued the following statement following the announcement of the opening of Altitude Lab. “This is truly a life sciences milestone in […]

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Utah Kidney Diagnostics Company Renalytix AI Announces IPO

Exciting news comes our way this week with the announcement by BioUtah member, Renalytix AI (Renalytix), that the company is going public with a global offering of an aggregate of 11,000,000 new ordinary shares – U.S. IPO priced at $13.50 per ordinary share, and a concurrent private placement in Europe and other countries outside of […]

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BioFire Respiratory Panel with COVID Target Scores CE Mark

BioMerieux announced that Utah-based BioFire’s Respiratory Panel 2.1 plus, which tests for SARS-CoV-2 and 23 pathogens encompassing 19 viruses, and four bacteria that cause the most frequent respiratory tract infections, has received CE marking.  “It’s exciting to see the advances that BioFire is making in COVID-19 and infectious disease diagnostics,” said Kelvyn Cullimore, president and […]

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