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By  Nathan Eddy 02:25 pm July 14, 2021
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Boston’s Brigham and Women Hospital announced the launch of a Diagnostic Accelerator that aims to create new diagnostic technologies. The goal is to compress the time frame for introducing diagnostic technologies specifically developed to solve high-value clinical problems. The Brigham clinical community will...
By  Laura Lovett 02:27 pm March 27, 2018
The healthcare innovation industry is a multifaceted ecosystem: From the energetic new startup developing a product and the venture firm backing it, to the FDA regulating the new invention, there are plenty of forces working in concert. At The Economist’s Healthcare Forum in Boston today, healthcare industry leaders discussed the balancing act of working with key players in this system.  “It is a...
By  Aditi Pai 12:47 pm March 28, 2016
Harvard University has partnered with Sage Bionetworks to launch TeamStudy, a ResearchKit app that aims to gather data from former NFL players as well as the general public to study and better understand the impact playing football has on professional athletes. The ResearchKit app launch is a part of Harvard’s Football Players Health Study, which is a series of research initiatives the university...