VP of Research & Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
CEO and co-founder of BoostSuite
Founder and Managing Partner, Frazier Healthcare Ventures
Managing Director of Hatteras Discovery and Venture Partner at Hatteras Venture Partners
Senior health advisor for Esri
Founding Director, Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
Nobel Laureate, Professor of Biology, Caltech
Head of global research and development at Life Technologies
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Exact Sciences saw its stock price rise late Tuesday on news that the health insurer UnitedHealthcare will cover Cologuard, Exact’s stool-based DNA test for colorectal cancer, starting July 1.
Shares in Madison, WI-based Exact (NASDAQ: EXAS) were trading at $35.30... Read more »
San Diego-based Arcturus Therapeutics said today Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics has agreed to provide $3 million to fund research and development of a new messenger RNA drug that could be broadly used to treat cystic fibrosis patients.
The four-year-old startup has... Read more »
Just in time for the unofficial start of summer, we’re looking at news on startups in Wisconsin developing new water technologies, as well as one that has created a product for water sports enthusiasts. Plus, an award for growth in exports, an... Read more »
The randomized controlled trial has long been held up as the gold standard for testing new drugs. But the nation’s top drug evaluator, Janet Woodcock, believes they aren’t necessary for all new experimental treatments. Randomized trials are long, expensive to run,... Read more »
Protagonist Therapeutics’ work developing an inflammatory bowel disease drug that can be taken as a pill, rather than injected, now has fresh cash and the backing of a large pharmaceutical partner.
Newark, CA-based Protagonist (NASDAQ: PTGX) has entered a partnership... Read more »
Dallas—Texas, a large healthcare market and the home state of Teladoc (NYSE: TDOC), has been a relatively small market for the telemedicine firm.
But now with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature on a new law that makes operating in... Read more »
[Updated 5/30/17, 9:39 am. See below.] Cybersecurity firm CounterTack announced today it has expanded its coffers with a new $20 million funding round from investors. It could be good timing for the Waltham, MA-based company.
The recent WannaCry ransomware... Read more »
A few weeks ago at the annual NewYorkBio conference, Xconomy asked a variety of folks about the state of New York biotechnology in 2017: is the momentum that has been gathering in life sciences in New York still building, or has... Read more »
When thousands of cancer researchers from around the world gather in Chicago this weekend for the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting, drugs that fight tumors by boosting a patient’s immune system will take center stage, as they have in... Read more »
On Wednesday, Indianapolis startup myCOI announced it will invest nearly $1 million to more than double its footprint, creating up to 185 jobs by 2021. To help sweeten the deal, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation will grant myCOI up to $1.75... Read more »
Houston—Juliana Garaizar, managing director of the Houston Angel Network, is used to dealing with big egos and strong personalities in both the investing and tech worlds.
“If it’s up to me, I try to work as little as possible with... Read more »
Team Trump unveiled its 2018 federal spending proposal—the so-called “skinny budget”—with health and science in the crosshairs. The NIH is looking at a 22 percent cut and the FDA 31 percent, although the administration wants to backfill the FDA... Read more »
We’ve got lots of Boston-area tech news to catch up on this week. Here are some of the latest developments:
New funds
—Scansorial has raised $2.2 million from investors, according to an SEC filing. The Lexington, MA-based company makes Root,... Read more »
Austin—[Updated 5/25/17, 4:42 p.m. See below.] A year after Uber and Lyft had a bad breakup with Austin, the software companies are returning to town Monday. That’s thanks to Texas state law makers who last week approved legislation... Read more »
San Antonio—Rackspace has acquired a Norwell, MA-based company called TriCore Solutions that the cloud computing giant says is its largest acquisition ever, both financially and by the number of employees. The news comes less than a year after Rackspace itself was... Read more »
[Updated 5/25/17, 2:30 pm. See below.] Here is some noteworthy consolidation in the Boston data science and artificial intelligence sectors: DataRobot has snapped up Nutonian for an undisclosed price, in a deal involving two young companies.
The deal shows... Read more »
[Updated 5/25/17, 12:44 p.m. See below.] Constellation Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge, MA-based biotech that up until 2015 had a sprawling alliance with Genentech, has made sweeping changes this morning. The firm has replaced its president and CEO, will transition its... Read more »
An ambitious plan to recruit 1 million U.S. volunteers and amass a treasure trove of their health information will start next week with a “beta test” that health officials hope to eventually expand nationwide.
National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins... Read more »
Join Xconomy next Wednesday, May 31, at “New York Biotech Seizes the Momentum” for an afternoon of unique, candid, and interactive chats to discuss the steps being taken by a variety of key figures to change the state’s biotech identity. Don’t... Read more »
[Updated 5/25/17 4:47 p.m. See below.] People who have spent years working in a particular industry before deciding to hang out their own shingle need a few things to succeed: a business plan, plenty of gumption, and enough money... Read more »
Microsoft is acquiring cybersecurity startup Hexadite for $100 million, according to a report by Israeli publication Calcalist.
Xconomy has not yet confirmed the report. A Microsoft spokesperson said the company has “nothing to share at this time.” Hexadite CEO and co-founder... Read more »
San Antonio—Cloud computing company Rackspace has a new CEO: Joe Eazor, who was most recently the CEO of EarthLink, the company best known for providing dial-up Internet since the 1990s.
Eazor is replacing Taylor Rhodes, who left Rackspace this... Read more »
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Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation
Chairman and CEO, Nanobiosym Diagnostics Inc.
President and CEO, Lumina Foundation
Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California
Director, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan
Partner, Third Rock Ventures
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