IDbyDNA, the pioneer in precision metagenomics, has appointed Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) leader Neil Gunn as its new CEO to drive the next phase of the company’s growth. “Having spent the last 12 years growing the PCR and sequencing businesses at Roche, I’m excited by the tremendous potential IDbyDNA’s platform has to transform the diagnostic approach to […]
The webinar presented the opportunity for Utah companies to raise capital through an offering on London Stock Exchanges AIM platform […]
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on Tuesday held a hearing on “Negotiating A Better Deal: Legislation to Lower the Cost of Prescription Drugs.” All committee members called for legislation to lower drug costs, but differed along party line on how best to achieve that. House Democrats recently reintroduced H.R. 3, a sweeping drug pricing […]
This week SINTX Technoloiges announced multiple U.S. and international patent applications for development of new technologies utilizing the company’s silicon nitride. “The innovative application of SINTX’s silicon nitride promises new tools to improve our public health response to COVID-19 and other viruses,” said Kelvyn Cullimore, president and CEO of BioUtah. SINTX has found that its […]
Foldax was named by Fierce Medtech as one of the 2020 “Fierce 15,” designating it as one of the most promising private companies in the medical technology industry. “BioUtah congratulates Foldax on this well-deserved recognition, which is all the more impressive amid the challenges of a pandemic,” said Kelvyn Cullimore, president and CEO of BioUtah. Foldax […]
The Biden administration has announced that they will back a waiver of the WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement so that any country can produce vaccines without worrying about patent infringement. This has the potential to drastically hinder global vaccine manufacturing and distribution and sets a dangerous precedent for future pandemics. The […]
Many pre-revenue and pre-profit companies generate R&D Tax Credits. These tax credits can be monetized to offset employer payroll taxes as well as state and federal income taxes. […]
President Joe Biden’s first major joint address to Congress on Wednesday included calls to give Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices. “Let’s give Medicare the power to save hundreds of billions by negotiating lower prices… we pay the highest drug prices of anywhere in the world right here in America,” Biden said. BioUtah and other […]
DiscGenics, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing regenerative cell-based therapies that alleviate pain and restore function in patients with degenerative diseases of the spine, has completed enrollment in its Japanese safety study of Injectable Discogenic Cell Therapy (IDCT) for lumbar disc degeneration, a major cause of chronic low back pain. This Japanese 38-subject […]
Co-Diagnostics’ Indian manufacturing facility, CoSara Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd. (“CoSara,” or the “JV”, a Joint Venture with Synbiotics Ltd) has been featured in recent press highlighting its actions to provide COVID-19 diagnostics as a surge of infections has led to the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic began. The article in the Times of India […]
Utah Business Magazine has highlighted a new partnership between Constant Companion and Canary Speech to study how voice technology can be used to identify human conditions in specific populations. Canary Speech will analyze the data with its patented speech digital biomarker technology, used to diagnose behavioral conditions and other diseases. Constant Companion will be utilizing its […]
The University of Utah (the U), ARUP Laboratories, and Techcyte Inc. announced that they have formed a partnership to develop NanoSpot.AI, a less than five-minute, easy-to-administer COVID-19 antibody test. NanoSpot.AI is estimated to be significantly less expensive to manufacture than other antibody tests, so it has the potential to be much more affordable and extend […]