He gave Posin, now 63, information
for diagnostics company SleepQuest, about 30 miles from his home in San Francisco.
(Yesterday, the agency launched precisionFDA, a web platform
for diagnostics companies, researchers, and healthcare providers to validate genetic tests against reference materials and share their results.)
Not exact matches
Holmes and Theranos made waves in Silicon Valley and the
diagnostics industry two years ago, when investors lined up to boost the valuation of a
company that claimed it would soon offer more than 1,000 varieties of blood
diagnostics tests without the need
for a syringe.
It previously focused on making
diagnostic machinery
for the biotech
companies.
Diversified healthcare
company Abbott Laboratories on Friday agreed to buy Alere
for about $ 4.48 billion, ending a prolonged legal battle over its plan to buy the
diagnostic - testing
company.
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for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance
companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us
for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and
diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement
for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee
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The
company, in turn, would began offering educational workshops and clinics,
for a modest fee, where they'd share some of the physiological benefits of custom - fit saddles and offer a
diagnostic assessment of a rider's gear.
The
company's Gene - RADAR system can be used at the actual hospitals where patients go; it's portable, making it an especially convenient system
for Zika virus testing since blood samples don't have to be shipped off to
diagnostic labs.
Theranos is a
diagnostics company with fast finger - prick blood testing technology that aims to upend the traditional health care establishments by making it easier, less expensive and less uncomfortable to get tested
for various conditions.
San Diego's Astute Medical has been purchased
for $ 90 million by French
diagnostics company BioMeriéux.
Founder Elizabeth Holmes, who is facing a two - year ban by U.S. regulators from running a clinical testing
company, used the session at the American Association
for Clinical Chemistry's annual scientific meeting to introduce the «miniLab» testing device, a 95 - pound
diagnostic tool that can fit on a tabletop.
About ChipCare ChipCare is a Toronto - based
company producing life - saving
diagnostics for infectious and non-communicable diseases in remote health settings with a mobile, simple - to - use & lab quality blood - testing platform.
Companies that provide drug development and other product development services, equipment, software and services
for research, manufacturing discovery and medical
diagnostics.
Brian Peifer, broker of record
for Royal LePage Peifer Realty in Chatham, Ont., along with office manager Deb Roberts, donated more than $ 4,000 from their
company to the Chatham - Kent Health Alliance
Diagnostic Imaging Machine Campaign.
The
company met many of Buffett's criteria
for purchase: strong return on capital, a family run
company, $ 135 million in annual revenue and a business plan that's difficult
for competitors to copy, said Kenkel, who is international marketing manager
for an Omaha health care
diagnostics company.
One of the world's leading medical technology
companies produces and sells an extensive range of medical supplies, laboratory and
diagnostic equipment
for health care facilities, life science institutes, and clinical laboratories.
It's a decision which stands to impede access to genes
for diagnostic and other purposes, while protecting the right of biomedical
companies to extract higher returns
for life - saving technology.
Ronald Niemeijer is director global marketing food
diagnostics at R - Biopharm AG and responsible
for R - Biopharm's marketing strategy in food analysis and the development and implementation of the
company's digital marketing and content marketing strategies.
Pete has supported legislation to increase Medicare reimbursements
for screening and
diagnostic mammographies; fund research centers to study the relationship between the environment and breast cancer; and require insurance
companies to guarantee at least 48 hours hospital care after a mastectomy.»
Second, the deal bars insurance
companies from charging copayments or coinsurance
for either screening mammograms or follow - up
diagnostic imaging.
Chicago - based Hill - Rom Holdings Inc. bought 101 - year - old
company for $ 2.05 billion in September from the Allyn family and has continued to manufacture medical
diagnostic equipment under the Welch Allyn name in Skaneateles.
It's taken 13 years, but an upstate New York
company, Logical Images, has finally received a patent
for the software that runs its visual
diagnostic system.
The
company wanted to use it as a
diagnostic marker
for disease: If synthetic versions of antibodies could be tagged with aequorin in the lab, then whenever they matched up with an antigen (or surface protein) of a specific pathogen in blood or tissue, the sample would glow.
Vaccines developed using proteins rather than live viruses can help protect animals and subsequently humans from insect - borne viruses, according to Alan Young, chief scientific officer
for Medgene Labs, an animal health
company that develops therapeutics and
diagnostics, including vaccines.
This loophole means that
companies ranging from small start - ups offering just one or two tests to much larger
diagnostic labs that offer thousands of tests can develop and charge
for new LDTs much more easily than they can
for most other categories of medical products.
This system and our other
diagnostics sensors are being supported
for commercialisation through a University spin out
company, Ohmedics Ltd..»
In 2006, the neurotechnology industry comprised over 500
companies, developing drugs, devices and
diagnostics for the brain and nervous system, generating worldwide revenues of $ 120.5 billion.
Any
company that has significant
diagnostic information and genomic capabilities, if they want to go
for the gold ring, they try to figure out how to make it useful to the health industry rather than just producing research tools,» says David Galas, a professor at the Institute
for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, and the vice president and chief science officer
for biological and life sciences at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.
Some of the
diagnostics companies,
for instance, are expanding, and there's been an influx of big pharma into the area recently.»
The Duke team has previously explored blood tests to examine a patient's RNA
for gene signatures to distinguish bacterial and viral infections in the upper respiratory tract and is working with a private
company to develop potential
diagnostics.
One early project was to help Genoptix — a Novartis daughter -
company acquired in 2011 and located in Carlsbad, California — to commercialize a
diagnostic test
for lung cancer patients.
As you don't need to make cDNA to offer a
diagnostic test, campaigners
for women's health hope that other
companies will now leap in, and bring down the cost of testing
for BRCA1 and BRCA2.
For many
companies, the Therapeutic Discovery Project Program will actually mean a cash grant to help develop a drug or
diagnostic.
A Million dollars is on offer to the researcher or
company that develops cheap and simple
diagnostic tests
for chlamydia and gonorrhoea.
She expects her
company's first product, a
diagnostic test
for waterborne parasites, to reach the market by the end of 2009.
The research scientist just 4 years into her first industry job with a
company that makes
diagnostic tests and reagents, who finds as she reenters the job market that she is not a strong candidate
for bench - science jobs in the biotech industry because she has been labeled a «
diagnostics industry» employee.
«From a business standpoint, there is not much of an incentive
for drug
companies to produce these
diagnostics,» says Randy Scott of Genomic Health.
Since it was patented in 1984, more than 1,000
companies have licensed the T7 system to produce proteins
for commercial purposes, including medical
diagnostics and treatments.
• Customized mutation screening assays Biotage, the manufacturing
company of the genetic analyzer PyroMark ID, offers in its database more than 1,000 customized assays
for routine clinical screening
diagnostics.
Her
company will satisfy a need in the marketplace
for reasonably priced custom monoclonal antibodies
for diagnostic and therapeutic uses, she said.
In order to most rapidly realize the value of genetics
for human health, deCODE is currently partnering with life sciences
companies to accelerate their target discovery, validation, and prioritization efforts, yielding improved patient stratification
for clinical trials and essential companion
diagnostics.
About deCODE deCODE is a biopharmaceutical
company applying its discoveries in human genetics to the development of
diagnostics and drugs
for common diseases.
With more than 1,200 international actors from 35 + countries, such as big pharma, emerging and small biotech,
diagnostics companies, pre-seed / seed / Series A investors, as well as professionals from tech transfer, academia and research institutions, BioFIT is the leading partnering event in Europe
for technology transfer, academia - industry collaborations and early - stage innovations in the field of Life Sciences.
Today the
company supplies high technology particles and polymer products
for in vitro
diagnostics and life science research applications.
Curetis N.V. (the «
Company» and, together with Curetis USA Inc. and Curetis GmbH, «Curetis»), a developer of next - level molecular
diagnostic solutions, today announced the successful completion of clinical performance evaluation and CE - IVD marking of its novel Unyvero Application Cartridge, UTI,
for the diagnosis of severe urinary tract infections.
DENVER — A pre-competitive consortia of pharmaceutical,
diagnostic companies and academic associations, including the International Association
for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), announced phase I results of the «BLUEPRINT PD - L1 IHC ASSAY COMPARISON PROJECT» at the Annual Meeting of the American Association
for Cancer Research (AACR) on April 19.
It will strengthen Ireland's ability to attract foreign direct investment from
companies active in the multi-trillion euro global market
for diagnostics, treatments and medtech
for neurological diseases, and facilitate indigenous
companies seeking to access this market.
In 1994 he founded Definiens, a
company dedicated to developing advanced processing tools
for maximizing the information that can be gathered from images, with particular use
for applications in medical
diagnostics.
The expense and effort are increased by the FDA requirement that any
company applying
for approval of a drug targeted against a specific gene - driven abnormality must also produce a
diagnostic test
for that abnormality.
The
companies will use the discovery as the basis
for further research and development in both
diagnostics and therapeutics.