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Bayer Grants4Apps® Accelerator: Submissions Open for Digital Health Startups

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07 April 2015
The Grants4Apps® Accelerator is a mentoring program for digital health startups taking place in Berlin. This year's batch with five startups runs from August 10th until December 4th, 2015. The program offers mentoring by entrepreneurs and Bayer experts, office space for 100 days at Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals headquarters, and funding of 50,000€.
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iManageCancer Survey: Your Opinion Counts

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20 February 2015
Would you like to contribute to the future of cancer treatment in technology? iManageCancer project is trying to find out how mobile healthcare (mHealth) and serious games might help people with chronic illnesses and in particular cancer. Significant improvements due to cancer research have led to more cancer patients being cured, and very many more enabled to live with their condition.
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Crowdfunding helps solve rare disease mystery

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10 February 2015
Rare diseases - those that affect fewer than one in 200,000 people - are often identified early in life. Some 30 percent of children afflicted by these "orphan diseases" do not live to see their fifth birthday. While the U.S. Orphan Drug Act of 1983 was written into law to promote research on the topic, the cost of identifying the source and progression of these diseases remains prohibitive for many families.
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Metabolomic Discoveries launches personalized metabolomics service Kenkodo through crowdfunding platform Indiegogo

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05 February 2015
German biotech company Metabolomic Discoveries announced the launch of personalized metabolomics tool Kenkodo. Through a smartphone app and sampling kit, users will soon be able to improve their well­being. Kenkodo is available through the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. This product offers people the possibility to track and understand the influence of factors, such as nutrition, sports and stress on their metabolism.
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Academies call for consequences from the Ebola virus epidemic

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15 October 2014
The Ebola virus is spreading rapidly and to an unexpected extent. The outbreak does not follow the patterns experienced in the past and the virus shows a new disease dynamic in regions, where it has never been recorded before. For this reason, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, acatech - the German Academy of Science and Engineering, and the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities have presented a statement on the Ebola epidemic.
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NIH to launch human safety study of Ebola vaccine candidate

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28 August 2014
Initial human testing of an investigational vaccine to prevent Ebola virus disease will begin next week by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. The early-stage trial will begin initial human testing of a vaccine co-developed by NIAID and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and will evaluate the experimental vaccine's safety and ability to generate an immune system response in healthy adults.
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BBK Worldwide makes clinical engagement process easier with mobile apps

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17 June 2014
BBK Worldwide, a leading clinical trial marketing firm, has unveiled two new mobile apps for patient and site engagement, My Clinical Study Buddy℠ and My Clinical Study Buddy℠ Protocol Pointers Edition. Available for Apple® and Android™ mobile phones and tablets, both apps are available on the App Store℠ and Google Play™ and are being demoed at this week's DIA 2014 50th Annual Meeting at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, Calif., June 16-19 at BBK booth #2309.
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Business & Industry

  • Insilico Medicine brings AI-powered "ChatPandaGPT" to its target discovery platform
  • BlueRock Therapeutics to incorporate wearable and invisible contactless digital health technologies from Rune Labs and Emerald Innovations in Parkinson's disease clinical trial
  • Novartis Tafinlar + Mekinist approved by FDA for pediatric patients with BRAF V600E low-grade glioma
  • AstraZeneca launches call for entries to the 2023 global R&D Postdoctoral Challenge
  • Pfizer invests $43 billion to battle cancer

Research & Development

  • 'Biohybrid' device could restore function in paralysed limbs
  • Scientists use tardigrade proteins for human health breakthrough
  • DNA treatment could delay paralysis that strikes nearly all patients with ALS
  • Scientists reveal a potential new approach to treating liver cancer
  • Normalizing tumor blood vessels may improve immunotherapy against brain cancer
  • Engineered bacteria find tumors, then alert the authorities
  • First nasal monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19 shows promise for treating virus, other diseases

Conferences & Events

  • SAE Media Group proudly presents the 4th Annual AI in Drug Discovery Conference
  • SAE Media Group's 6th annual 3D Cell Culture Conference
  • CPHI Frankfurt returns to pre-pandemic strength as pharma industry booms again
  • 14th Annual RNA Therapeutics: Investigating the next generation of genetic medicine through RNA based therapies
  • CPHI Excellence in Pharma Award Winners 2022
  • CPHI Frankfurt Report predicts huge funding overhang to drive contract services growth
  • CPHI Frankfurt 2022: Global pharma confidence hits record high in the annual CPHI Pharma Index

Regulatory Affairs

  • FDA grants Accelerated Approval for Alzheimer's disease treatment
  • FDA approves new HIV drug for adults with limited treatment options
  • FDA approves first gene therapy for the treatment of high-risk, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer
  • FDA approves first gene therapy to treat adults with Hemophilia B
  • FDA approves first treatment for Acid Sphingomyelinase Deficiency, a rare genetic disease
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