For Mark Bakken, managing director at HealthX Ventures, it’s about giving back. He made millions as the founder of the massive health care IT consulting firm Nordic before leaving in 2014. Now, he can help the young founders of companies in the health care technology...
An experimental cancer drug developed by Cellectar Biosciences, which has operations in Middleton and in New Jersey, will be studied on children and adolescents with a variety of solid tumors at UW Health’s American Family Children’s Hospital. The drug, CLR131, delivers targeted high doses of radioactive...
Madison startup Redox, which developed a secure network for exchanging health care data, has signed up one of the largest health care systems in the U.S. to use its platform. Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare, which serves roughly three million people through its 124 locations, including 13 hospitals...
Six young high-tech businesses in the Madison area are getting a financial push from the state to get their products ready to sell. The startups are developing products ranging from bio-renewables to drug development tools to software programs. They will receive matching grants from the SBIR Advance...
Nordic is headed to bigger quarters. The Madison technology consultant firm has outgrown its offices at Regent Street and West Washington Avenue, the gateway to the Downtown business district, and will move to offices along the West Beltline this fall. "We would have loved to stay," vice...
ImageMoverMD has crossed a hurdle, with a $4 million investment that will be used to broaden its customer network and add to its technology offerings. ImageMover, founded in 2014, helps doctors and labs securely integrate images -- such as medical photos from cellular phones and MRI...
HealthMyne Inc., a company focused on delivering quantitative imaging decision support for radiology and oncology, was recently selected by FirstHealth of the Carolinas to advance multiple oncology-related programs, including lung cancer screening and tumor conferences. FirstHealth is the first in the region to implement HealthMyne,...
Exact Sciences announced today that former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has joined its board of directors. “Secretary Sebelius understands the value of detecting cancer earlier, as well as the systemic challenges and opportunities to improve healthcare,” Exact Sciences Chairman and...
FLORHAM PARK, N.J., March 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLRB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of cancer, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an exemption...
A device from a Madison-based startup has been shown to detect infections two days before they could be diagnosed in a clinical setting. That’s from a recent study published in the scientific journal of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. It focuses on the...