Each business has to recognize its individual higher purpose: Why it is important that it exists and what it would mean if it didn’t exist? Chamber President Zach Brandon knows there are businesses in Madison even beyond the big three of Epic, Electronic Theater Controls and...
When a patient is being treated for cancer, it’s often very difficult to know which treatment will work best. Chorom Pak, president and founder of Lynx Biosciences, wants to change that. She and her team are working on a system that lets medical oncologists determine prior to...
Catalyze, healthcare’s go-to source for HIPAA compliant HITRUST CSF Certified hosting and integration services, today announced the appointment of Brian Lindstrom to the role of Chief Operating Officer. In this newly created role, Lindstrom will report to Catalyze CEO Travis Good, MD and help operationalize...
Modern medicine has largely rid the world of some of the most widespread problems society has faced — smallpox, polio and the measles, to name a few. However, there are still some killers for which doctors haven’t found an answer. With INSULETE’s new patent, however, the...
MADISON, Wis. , Dec. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS) announced today that under a recently-signed contract, Humana Inc. agreed to cover Cologuard as an in-network service for its members, effective January 1, 2017 . Under terms of the agreement, Cologuard will...
Scott Jens knew, from an early age, that seeing clearly is not something to take for granted. Jens remembers how his brother, four years younger, had such severe myopia, or nearsightedness, as a child that he “couldn’t walk around a room” without glasses on. It left an...
Some investors who spoke at the recent Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium said they like to invest first in the team and second in the technology. If so, Middleton-based ImageMoverMD should be an investor’s dream. ImageMoverMD was profiled as part of a new economy business profile series done...
The prospect of undergoing a surgical procedure with the operating room lights dimmed or switched off would probably make a lot of people bristle. But with some procedures, darkened operating environments make sense because they allow surgical teams to use fluorescent compounds that highlight particular tissues...
Madison, Wisconsin-based Propeller Health, which offers a digitally-guided respiratory therapy platform, has teamed up with Medical International Research (MIR) to offer several of the Italian health technology company’s mobile and clinical spirometers alongside the Propeller system. The addition of sprirometers will give Propeller a more complete...
Cellectar Biosciences Inc., a Madison company that is developing radiopharmaceutical drugs for cancer treatment, said Monday it has chosen Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization of Hamilton, Ontario, to supply its lead compound for a 2017 clinical trial and future commercial production. Cellectar is currently evaluating the compound,...