Cellectar Biosciences has extended its collaboration with Pierre Fabre, a French pharmaceutical company, the company announced today. “The extension of our research agreement with Pierre Fabre allows us to further progress the development of an exciting new class of novel targeted antitumor agents and underscores the promise...
Supporters of the incentives promised to Foxconn can only hope that the billions of dollars have the same effect on the state’s economy as Epic Systems in Verona has had. The company, which writes software for electronic health records, has hired about 3,200 people in the...
Xconomy Wisconsin — Invenra, a Madison, WI-based startup that develops therapeutic antibodies for pharmaceuticals companies and other clients, has raised more than $2.9 million from investors, according to a regulatory filing. Twenty-five investors participated in the equity funding round, according to the filing, which was made public on Thursday....
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Lucigen a patent for its pJAZZ BigEasy System, the company announced recently. According to a release, the pJAZZ system offers the unique ability to stably reproduce large or challenging sequences of DNA. Gene therapy is a potential application. Read more at Madison...
JangoBio, a biotech company developing a therapy to reduce the negative effects of aging, could be starting human trials as early as next year. That’s according to company COO Bill Kohl, who spoke alongside CEO Craig Atwood at a recent progress update for interested parties at...
HealthDecision‘s shared decision-making software for clinicians and patients has been accepted into the Epic App Orchard Marketplace, the company announced recently. Marketplace, which houses healthcare-related apps from third-party developers, was made available to the public this week during Epic’s annual User Group Meeting. Read more at Madison Startups...
Epic Systems Corp. is one of the nation’s biggest providers of electronic health records systems, but CEO Judy Faulkner is calling on her company’s customers — including some of the biggest health care organizations in the U.S. — to think about their patients as more...
A Wisconsin biotech company aiming to improve prostate cancer screening is seeking seed funds while competing in a startup accelerator in Texas. Gregor Diagnostics was founded in February 2016 by CEO Tobias Zutz, who had worked for Exact Sciences for over five years before branching out...
Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) and Nanion Technologies, a leading provider of instrumentation for ion channel drug discovery and screening, announced they have entered into a joint marketing agreement. According to a release, the partnership will offer research customers access to CDI’s suite of human iPSC-derived tissue cells paired...
Cellectar Biosciences announced today it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Onconova Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company, to develop new phospholipid drug conjugates (PDC). According to a release, the Newtown, Pa.-based Onconova will provide Cellectar with several compounds, and Cellectar will link the molecules to its PDC...