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- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
photo by Stu Rosner Food allergies affect 30 million Americans and one in 12 children, sometimes triggering life-threatening reactions. Yet there are no approved FDA treatments or cures. These sobering facts became alarmingly real to...
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Jill Radsken
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
scientists, and clinicians work together,” says Jena, whose product is now being piloted at three major hospital centers across India. He expects US FDA approval for their product by November 2014. (Published April 2014)
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
In 2008, private investors and the National Institutes of Health plowed more than $100 billion into pharmaceutical research. And yet, “We’re not seeing the new diagnostics, treatments, preventative approaches, and cures that we might have expected,” View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
drug and the FDA says it is safe and effective and doctors prescribe it, insurance generally will pay for it. But everyone is getting fed up with that approach—the ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli did not help—and we’ve reached a critical mass...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
impact on the size of the start-up's IPO. "Downstream social capital was essential in attracting the interest of a top investment bank and getting a high valuation for the IPO," Higgins says. Such downstream connections can be valuable sources of information about the...
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Judith A. Ross
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
Labs. “A crisis like this illuminates the importance of innovation.” One example is Umbulizer, which offers a reliable, portable ventilator at 10 percent of the cost of a $40,000 hospital-grade machine. The device recently gained emergency View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
have, and how can we support their development?” Chandra explains that because “science is long and hard”—running the gamut from basic research and drug discovery, to clinical trials, to FDA review and approval, to post-approval...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
Boston Globe (February 9, 2012). “Joe could have turned away and said he hates this disease, but he didn’t,” said C. Richard Mattingly, COO of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. “He led us. He wasn’t working to save Joey’s life. He was working for others who still had a...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
eliminated; a 20 percent loss due to budget cuts was deemed a realistic possibility.) The researchers adopted the “willingness-to-pay” methodology that federal agencies such as OSHA and the FDA use to determine how much people would pay...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
spur further developments. John Crowley's (MBA 1997) quest to conquer Pompe disease began when his son and daughter were diagnosed with the rare, often fatal neuromuscular disorder in 1998. He helped push the development of the first-ever treatment for Pompe, approved...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
should humans do and what should algorithms do?’” she notes. As she seeks to tackle tasks such as securing FDA approvals and raising venture funding, Kelley has already found her affiliation with the Life Lab and her access to other...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
because the present ratio in pharma R&D spend is in the high teens. The best way to improve the cost of prescription drugs is to improve the supply of new drugs. The two best approaches to this are modernizing the FDA so it gets a “pro-...
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- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
Hoxworth Blood Center, where it was processed and stored. Parents paid an initial processing fee at the time of delivery and an annual storage fee in the month of the child’s birthday. At the time, most organizations dealing in blood were nonprofits, such as the Red...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Sep 2016
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The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
women 100% of the open seats and potentially create more openings: Interview the women first. It doesn’t need to be tested by the FDA before corporate boards across America try it. Trewstar has done it over 30 times, and it always works....
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm and joined a biotech start-up soon after that conversation. Time - a precious asset in any industry - has special value in biotech,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan doesn’t approve of Americans buying low-cost prescription drugs from Canada or over the Internet. But he understands what drives them to do so. At the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association’s fourth...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
fundraising, IP, patent law, and the ins and outs of FDA and HIPAA regulations. Tecco and Gross refined their vision for Rock Health in a field study with HBS senior lecturer Bob Higgins. But first, Tecco had the experience of founding...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
habit. Introduced as a prescription drug in 1992 by de Weese's company, California-based Cygnus Research Corporation (now Cygnus, Inc.), Nicotrol represented a breakthrough in transdermal patch technology. Receiving FDA approval in a...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
FDA to work 1 million acres of forest, a concession worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Every word of the company’s forty-page proposal was plagiarized from a U.S. Forest Service report on woodlands 7,000 miles away. And even though I...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
“We have a highly effective mask that protects both the health professionals and the patients from transfer of microorganisms, body fluids, and particulate matter,” says Sarka, who is submitting the product for an Emergency Use Authorization and View Details