Professor of Systems Biology, Columbia University
Vice President for Research at UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
Vice president, chief strategy and operating officer of the Texas Medical Center
Vice President for Corporate Engagement, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Co-Founder and CEO, DNAnexus
Founder and Managing Director of DEV
Co-Founder, Sakti3
CEO and Fund Manager, Renaissance Venture Capital Fund
PTC Therapeutics is looking to gene therapy in a bid to broaden its pipeline, scooping up privately held Agilis Biotherapeutics in a cash and stock deal.
South Plainfield, NJ-based PTC (NASDAQ: PTCT) will pay $50 million up front, plus... Read more »
San Antonio—There’s plenty of scrutiny of whether it’s worthwhile for governments to offer incentive packages that aim to attract businesses and the jobs they bring. Still, city and state leaders across the nation continue to do it, among other... Read more »
Austin—Sputnik ATX, a startup accelerator that launched last year, has picked a group of five startups that will be the second class of businesses to run through the program.
The early stage companies include a software-as-a-service business that connects teachers... Read more »
[Updated, 7/19/18, 6:25 p.m. See below.] A patient has died in a clinical trial testing Mersana Therapeutics’ lead cancer drug, and the FDA has put a partial hold on the early-stage study as a result.
The partial hold means... Read more »
One in five pairs of shoes sit unworn in the average woman’s closet. So, why not sell these unused, or slightly used, pairs to someone who will wear them?
That’s the view of Scott Van Valkenburgh, co-founder of Luxury Shoe Club,... Read more »
Zapata Computing, a Harvard University spinout developing software to enable quantum computers, said Wednesday it’s working with Google to advance quantum computing technologies. Zapata said it’s one of the first users of Cirq, Google’s new open-source software framework for quantum computing.... Read more »
Nearly one year ago, biotech startup IFM Therapeutics sold some of its assets to Bristol-Myers Squibb for $300 million. But IFM’s founders stuck around to try to capitalize on the startup’s remaining research. They’ve formed a Boston business, IFM Tre, that... Read more »
What do Singapore, Bahrain, and Detroit have in common? If you answered “they’re all home to financial technology hubs,” you win a prize.
Singapore is a well-known global finance capital, while Bahrain has spent the past four decades positioning itself as... Read more »
[Updated 7/19/18, 9:59 am. See below.] If top European leaders faced a testy President Donald Trump in a series of meetings this summer, imagine the mood when the president of the European Commission arrives at the White House next... Read more »
In recent weeks, there’s been some local buzz about a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison students that’s getting set to participate in the 2018 Hyperloop Pod Competition, which will take place next week in Hawthorne, CA. This year, the team... Read more »
Rubius Therapeutics has joined the parade of biotech companies going public, raising a whopping $241.1 million to support its approach of engineering red blood cells into off-the-shelf treatments for disease.
Late Tuesday night, Cambridge, MA-based Rubius priced its offering of 10.4... Read more »
From artificial intelligence (A.I.) to materials science, this year’s Xconomy Awards finalists in the Innovation at the Intersection category are bringing a variety of disciplines outside of biology to bear on tough problems in life science. The hope is that advanced... Read more »
The seeds farmers plant in their fields can carry certain desirable traits, such as drought tolerance or pest resistance. Breeding or genetic engineering can produce such traits, but ag biotech startup Inari Agriculture aims to take trait development to a new... Read more »
Swim.ai, a startup developing advanced analytics software that can process data in devices at the edge of a network—such as industrial turbines or self-driving cars—announced today it raised $10 million in a Series B funding round.
The San Jose, CA-based... Read more »
The grind never stops in Michigan’s innovation community, even when the weather is perfect for playing hooky. Here’s a look at recent tech news from around the state:
—The Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, the state’s largest startup pitch contest with... Read more »
San Antonio — [Updated 7/18/18, 2:58 p.m. See below.] The board of directors for Houston-based immunotherapy biotech Kiromic has decided against taking a $200,000 investment from San Antonio-based economic development group, which would have required the company to relocate to San... Read more »
The enemy of my enemy is my friend—even in the retail and cloud computing businesses.
So says retail giant Walmart (NYSE: WMT) as it announced this morning a five-year partnership with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to use machine learning and... Read more »
Selling a new Web-connected thermostat or other wired gizmo to consumers without a plan to deliver the necessary security patches is not only bad business—it’s unethical. So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on... Read more »
Cyber breaches caused by people within businesses and organizations, both accidental and malicious leaks, continue to multiply. Now, a Boston security startup is arming itself with more cash and enhanced technology to try and stop these insider threats.
ObserveIT announced... Read more »
Michigan’s government and business leaders have worked diligently over the past few years to position the state that put the world on wheels to be major player in the development of self-driving cars. (According to a June 25 opinion piece in... Read more »
In real estate, location is key. The same holds true in the hunt for new drugs. HotSpot Therapeutics is trying to break new ground in drug discovery by hitting locations on a protein that aren’t the conventional targets of most medicines.... Read more »
[Updated 7/17/18, 11:53 am, with comments from English and Volpe. See below.] Lola, the business travel software startup led by Kayak co-founder Paul English, has brought on a new chief executive: Mike Volpe, the former chief marketing officer at... Read more »
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