Last week, trial-matching platform developer Healogica announced the availability of a new iPhone app that allows potential patients to search for clinical trials via the mobile web. Only $.99 to download, Clinical Trials 2.0 is an extension of Healogica’s current website, which provides a database for patients to search and connect with trials based [...]
We’ve seen a lot of ink dedicated to cloud computing in the life sciences press over the past six months, so it seems like it is past time to acknowledge the buzz and take a closer look at some of the issues surrounding this latest movement. Genome Technology’s overview of the trend, published today [...]
Everyone likes a great idea, and some have more resources to foster them than others. In a move that pits big business against academia which he termed prone to “academic snobbery”, GlaxoSmithKline Chief Executive Andrew Witty said this week that the company is considering adding new facilities at its main research sites aimed at [...]
Medford based Ancora Pharmaceuticals, former winner of the prestigious 2002 Robert P. Goldberg Business plan contest at MIT, announced this week that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the company a $530,000 Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research grant. The grant supports Ancora’s efforts to develop a vaccine to prevent malaria anemia. [...]