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Biotech mogul combines drugs and IT to attack cancer
The biotech landscape is covered with startup efforts with cancer drugs, but when Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong announces one, the business world stops and listens.
Startup hops out of incubator with cloud software for pharma
Philadelphia has hatched a startup with ambitious goals for improving how investigators and companies keep in touch during clinical trials. With customers and a third version of its web-based software out the door, myClin has grown out of shared office space in Old City and moved to its own office in a nearby location, MedCity News reported.
FDA clears startup's virtual trial for drug against multiple sclerosis
Transparency Life Sciences picked up a win for its bet on open innovation in transforming drug development. The FDA cleared the developer's IND application to study a generic hypertension drug for a new potential use in patients with multiple sclerosis, after the startup tapped crowdsourced input from experts and patients on aspects of the clinical trial.
NYC startup Medikly caters to pharma interactions with docs
Medikly, a New York City software upstart, is one of a dozen new companies to graduate from the entrepreneurship program at Startup Health. And the startup appears as the lone outfit focused on software for pharma groups in an otherwise health IT-heavy class.
Annovation finds $8M for virtual biotech plan
The do-more-with-less mentality is alive and well in biotech. Atlas Venture Development Corp., a unit of the VC firm Atlas Venture, has shown again that a skeleton crew of full-time staff can run a drug development program on a tight budget with the help of outside contracts.
Merck Serono bioinformatics head starts new company
Jérôme Wojcik, former director of bioinformatics at Merck Serono, is starting a new company, Quartz Bio, to do biomarker data management and exploratory biomarker analysis services that will be supported under Merck Serono's Entrepreneur Partnership Program, reports PharmaTimes .
Tech startup waltzes with wireless giant in Africa to expand mobile anti-drug counterfeiting system
To aid an expansion in developing countries, Sproxil has nailed down a deal with mobile giant Bharti Airtel. The pact paves the way for expanding Sproxil's mobile system for authenticating drugs to 17 countries in Africa where Bharti provides wireless service.
U.K. scientists tap into ehealth research with Centers of Excellence
Before the end of the year, medical research and patient data will be just a click away for British scientists with the impending launch of four ehealth research centers across the U.K.
AstraZeneca adopts search engine for scientists
London-based drug giant AstraZeneca has headlined a group of early users of Boston-based startup Knode's search engine of sorts for finding life sciences experts and their digital content, becoming the first Big Pharma revealed as an adopter of the web-based software.
AstraZeneca taps Amazon-like service for outsourcing research
At AstraZeneca ($AZN), scientists can search a virtual research exchange to shop for services from contract research groups in a similar fashion to browsing an online marketplace such as Amazon.com ($AMZN).
