About 15 years ago, David Van Sickle worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a “disease detective,” looking for the preliminary signs of epidemics. That’s when he became fascinated with the curious case of a community-wide asthma attack in Barcelona, Spain. Starting...
Promega announced recently that it launched a new tool called Water-Glo System that can be used for monitoring microbial contamination in freshwater, process water, seawater or wastewater samples. According to a release, Water-Glo System uses bioluminescent technology to measure adenosine triphosphate (ATP), as changes in ATP...
MADISON, Wis. – March 13, 2019 – Bluetree, an Epic consulting and strategy solutions company for healthcare providers, went live on February 26 with Johns Hopkins Health System on its Service Center program. Bluetree’s Service Centerfields calls from healthcare organization end users and physicians and...
Computer wonks are not the only ones who can come up with good ideas for new technology and companies. So can doctors, nurses and medical school students. That’s the idea behind a new accelerator on the UW-Madison campus that is designed to move inventions specifically from UW...
Embracing and solving problems makes employees at Propeller Health successful, but executives at the technology firm say there’s more to building a company culture. “We’ve been accused of being ‘Midwestern sciencey,’” said David Van Sickle, CEO and co-founder of Madison-based Propeller. “That meant we were attracting...
Cellectar Biosciences is reporting positive results in an ongoing clinical trial for the company’s lead cancer drug candidate. Meanwhile, year-end numbers for 2018 show net loss was about the same as the previous year, while research and development costs are down by nearly a third. In a...
Calling it “a landmark year,” Exact Sciences Corp. CEO and chairman Kevin Conroy said 934,000 people used the company’s Cologuard home test kit for colorectal cancer in 2018, an increase of 64 percent from the year before. That brought in $454.5 million in revenue for the...
Researchers with JangoBio, a Madison-based startup developing stem cell therapies, are set to begin testing on companion animals such as dogs within the next two months. Bill Kohl, chief operating officer for JangoBio, says this marks a step forward in the company’s journey to bring its...
MADISON, Wis. -- The vast majority of people with asthma may be using their inhalers incorrectly, potentially making their medicine less effective and increasing their risk of asthma attacks, according to new research published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In practice by digital therapeutics...
Madison-based health care software company Wellbe Inc. is working to raise $5 million from investors, according to a new SEC filing. The equity and debt round was launched Feb. 1, and so far includes 32 investors who have committed $4.6 million, according to the filing. James Dias, founder...