BioSpace News Archive

BioForest

Omeros to Present GPR174 Data at the European Society for Medical Oncology 2019 Immuno-Oncology Congress in Geneva

The presentation will include new findings from human T-cells demonstrating that GPR174 inhibition results in downregulation of checkpoint and tumor promoting factors.

December 10, 2019
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Policy

CMS Renews ACHC Deeming Authority for Hospice Accreditation

Accreditation Commission for Health Care reaffirms its status as a national leader in hospice accreditation with the recent renewal of its recognition as an approved accreditor for Medicare providers.

December 10, 2019
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2 min read
Business

Landrace Bioscience Announces New Supply Chain and Product Development Services Agreement with Abacus Health Products

The dual-pronged partnership will leverage Landrace’s industry-leading product development capabilities to create and supply a catalog of consumer goods.

December 10, 2019
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3 min read
Deals

ContraFect Corporation Prices Approximately $10 Million Public Offering of Common Stock and Concurrent $3 Million Private Placement of Common Stock to Pfizer

ContraFect Corporation announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 37,150,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $0.27 per share.

December 10, 2019
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6 min read
FDA

OrthoGrid Systems Receives FDA 510(K) Clearance for New PhantomMSK Trauma Application

Trauma application added to universal PhantomMSK platform; one platform with use across a variety of procedures

December 10, 2019
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2 min read
Biotech Bay

Verantos Receives a Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Fund Advanced Clinical Phenotyping in Real World Evidence Studies

The grant supports advanced scientific efforts by Verantos to define the clinical phenotype, a detailed view of patient characteristics required for RWE studies.

December 10, 2019
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2 min read
BioMidwest

Participating healthcare providers find Insight to Action™ training on CDC opioid prescribing guidelines enhances skills, effectively addresses professional education needs

Ascend Learning Clinical Healthcare today announced key findings from its recent Insight to Action™ healthcare provider training pilot addressing the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines for safe opioid prescribing.

December 10, 2019
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2 min read
Business

Prescient Medicine and Erasmus MC Partner to Study Opioid Addiction Risk

The clinical research will be conducted with patients in The Netherlands to confirm that the positive results from research completed in the United States are also found in the Dutch health care system.

December 10, 2019
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4 min read
FEops Awarded Euro 3.2 Million Grant From EU

FEops, a leader in personalized predictive planning for structural heart interventions, has been awarded a grant of Euro 3.2 million from the European Innovation Council (EIC) accelerator programme.

December 10, 2019
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2 min read
Biotech Bay

Geron Reports Two Poster Presentations at American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting

Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) today announced that two posters related to imetelstat, the Company’s first-in-class telomerase inhibitor, were presented at the 61st American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, Florida on December 8 and 9.

December 10, 2019
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7 min read