CEVEC announces new license agreement for its AAV manufacturing technology ELEVECTA® in gene therapy
Miracor Medical raises 24M€
Funds will be used for clinical studies and initiation of commercialization
At the Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrument Analysis (BCEIA), a leading Chinese trade fair for laboratory instruments, Labforward today announced a major rebranding to unify its products under a clear, clean identity. From today, the product cubuslab, an Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform for laboratory devices, will be known as Laboperator. The electronic lab notebook software (ELN) Labfolder will retain its original name.
Miracor Medical SA (Miracor Medical) has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its PiCSO® Impulse System for treatment of STEMI patients.
Miracor Medical SA (Miracor Medical) today announced the initiation and first patient enrollment in the PICSO-AMI-I study to evaluate the benefits of PiCSO® therapy compared with conventional PCI for the treatment of anterior STEMI patients.
Funds will be used to support clinical activities, R&D, international growth and establishing its operations in Belgium
labfolder GmbH from Berlin and the cubuslab GmbH from Karlsruhe are merging. As a new company called Labforward, they jointly develop a manufacturer-independent platform for the integration of laboratory equipment and laboratory control software. The result is an internationally-operating company with unique expertise in the digital transformation of laboratories.
Ophthalmic sensors and digital health company Implandata Ophthalmic Products GmbH (Implandata) announced today that it successfully attained CE mark for its EYEMATE system for use in patients undergoing keratoprosthesis surgery. Keratoprosthesis represents an infrequent yet important procedure for restoring vision; it is performed on patients whose donor cornea transplantation procedure has failed or shows only limited success. Increased intraocular pressure (IOP) in keratoprosthesis patients is a frequent and major post-surgical complication, resulting in failure of the procedure, secondary glaucoma and, consequently, vision loss.
Following approval in the UK in 2017, Humedics has now also received Marketing Authorization for its diagnostic agent, LiMAxetin®, in Germany and Austria.
Ophthalmic medical device company Implandata Ophthalmic Products GmbH (Implandata) announced today it successfully attained CE mark for its next generation EYEMATE-IO 1.1 implantable micro-sensor, which will be launched in April 2019. The CE-certified product enables eye surgeons to place the permanent implantable eye pressure sensor in conjunction with cataract surgery through significantly smaller incisions. The micro-sensor performs continual monitoring of eye pressure in glaucoma patients, providing highly critical information for guided glaucoma therapy.
Ophthalmic medical device company Implandata Ophthalmic Products GmbH (Implandata) announced today that the first patient in its international, multi-center, ARGOS-SC01 clinical study has been successfully implanted with its novel pressure sensor. This first-in-human clinical study is being conducted to validate the suprachoroidally-placed EYEMATE-SC sensor implant for continual monitoring of intraocular pressure (IOP).
Clinical study from the University of Essen reveals superiority of the LiMAx® test for noninvasively detecting different stages of fibrosis and cirrhosis in patients with chronic liver disease
Clinical phase III trial at 6 specialized liver centers demonstrates impressive benefits of the LiMAx® test.
Together with labfolder, the NRW Priority Professorship Biohybride and Medical Textiles in the new Center for Biohybrid Medical Systems at the RWTH Aachen University embarks on digital data management. Goals are the protection and traceability of the primary data, but the vision is to structure Big Data and also data that may have previously been ignored.
Funds will be used to support clinical and prepare commercial activities.
Company relocates from Austria to Belgium
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Humedics receives UK Marketing Authorization for its diagnostic agent, LiMAxetin®, and thus achieves full market clearance for the LiMAx® maximum liver capacity test in the UK, – the company’s first in Europe!
BERLIN & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. labfolder and the German Accelerator Life Sciences (GALS), an initiative supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), today announced the initiation of an extensive collaboration supporting the company’s expansion into the North American markets. With thousands of users and a growing number of customers in the U.S. already, the newly established Cambridge office will accelerate those efforts and support customer relations. Read more
Berlin
Peppermint VC realizes lucrative exit through the acquisition of next-generation chemotherapy agent CAP7.1 from German biotech CellAct by Mundipharma
CellAct Pharma GmbH together with the Mundipharma global network has announced a new deal for the development and commercialization of smart chemotherapy (CAP7.1) with a total deal value exceeding 250 million €. Read more
Potsdam
EMPERRA®, specializing in digital health solutions for people living with diabetes, has appointed Mr. Bent Johnsen as Managing Director and CEO. Read more
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Potsdam
Emperra GmbH, a start-up company based in Potsdam, Germany, has received the Finance Monthly’s 2017 Game Changers Award. The award is honouring Emperra for its new digital business models, which – based on innovative hardware – enable business revenue to be generated from digital solutions. The 2017 Game Changers Awards honour the innovation and strategic vision of a number of globally recognised specialists across a number of different industrial sectors. Read more
Berlin. The Board of Humedics GmbH is pleased to announce a reinforcement of the senior team of the company with Karsten Damgaard-Iversen (MBA, BScEE), who will take up the role of CEO as of June 1, 2017. Erwin de Buijzer will stay on as managing director (MD) with the title Chief Operations Officer (COO). Read more
