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When a large medtech company sets up a venture fund, it typically invests in technologies that are adjacent to its pre-existing portfolio. Intuitive Surgical’s approach is different.
Estonia is hoping to create a brighter future by attracting leading startups to its borders, a process that will bring tax revenues, jobs and infrastructure.
AI Medical Technology has been busy, with publications demonstrating its lead product’s potential in melanoma, ongoing fundraising and board appointments.
UK-based Ochre Bio has signed its first major deal with Boehringer Ingelheim. Scrip talked to its co-founder and CEO, Jack O’Meara, about its human tissue-based drug discovery platform, its resulting RNA platform for liver disease and how the fledgling drug company's early work mirrored that seen in diagnostics.
2024 Rising Leader, Jack O’Meara, says the industry must ‘promote personalities’ when building new biotech businesses to gain the trust of investors and the public.
An interactive look at pharma, medtech, and diagnostics deals made during February 2023. Data courtesy of Biomedtracker.