Life Sciences News

Oncora Medical could soon change how doctors treat cancer patients

March 14, 2016

Oncora Medical is showing all the signs of a startup about to rattle the marketplace to its core, says the company’s Dreamit Health mentor Steve Barsh. “They’re a great team solving a really big problem,” he said, not to mention Oncora just raised $1.2 million in seed capital from San Francisco-based iSeed Ventures, Philadelphia’s BioAdvance […]

How a video game company from Drexel is helping kids with cerebral palsy

March 11, 2016

Cofounded by a pair of professors, Enable Games uses video games for physical therapy. For Drexel physical therapist Margaret O’Neil, one big challenge is coming up with exercises that are both physically and intellectually stimulating for her cerebral palsy patients. Using active video games — games controlled by the body — is relatively new and unproven territory for her. […]

How Philadelphia’s tech scene helped Oncora Medical raise $1.2 million

March 10, 2016

No early-stage capital in Philly? This digital health company will make you rethink that. Oncora Medical just closed a seed round of $1.2 million from investors like Philadelphia’s BioAdvance, San Francisco’s iSeed Ventures and Wisconsin-based oncology entrepreneur Dr. Thomas “Rock” Mackie, but they say they couldn’t have done it without early financial support from the […]

Where Are They Now? Startup Battlefield Company BioBots

February 29, 2016

When we last saw BioBots, company CEO Danny Cabrera took to the Disrupt stage to pitch his 3D printer for living cells to our panel of judges in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY 2015. Cabrera showed off his company’s debut 3D bioprinter, and actually printed out a living 3D model of Vincent Van Gogh’s […]

Optofluidics Announces Major Updates for the NT Surface

February 26, 2016

Optofluidics reveals two upcoming features that improve their the state-of-art nanoparticle analysis tool the NT Surface. Optofluidics, a Philadelphia-based nanotech startup, announced today two upcoming features for their state-of-art nanoparticle analysis tool, the NT Surface, that will dramatically improve system ease of use and walk-away automation. Auto-Coupling The NT Surface will now ship with a […]

Video Game Therapy — Drexel Professors Design Games For Cerebral Palsy Patients

February 23, 2016

While video games have often been saddled with the reputation of promoting a sedentary lifestyle, a group of Drexel University professors see the digital diversions as a way of helping patients with cerebral palsy to keep on moving. The professors, with expertise ranging from game design to movement science, physical therapy and biomedical engineering, recently […]

4 Plexus companies raise $8 million in tough-to-tackle med-tech market

February 22, 2016

Plexus, the med-tech co-working space next to 30th Street Station, is fuller than it was a few months ago when equipment was still being installed. And as member companies have begun to move in, they’ve also raised some money. Four of Plexus’s startups have nearly closed fundraising rounds totaling more than $8 million. Those companies […]

McKesson teams up with Montco health analytics firm

February 12, 2016

Health care services and information technology giant McKesson Corp. is teaming up with a Montgomery County company to help health insurers quickly design and scale complex bundled payment models — and provide accurate payments to health care providers. Financial terms of deal between McKesson’s (NYSE: MCK) health solutions division and HealthQX of King of Prussia, […]

Ben Franklin Approved $2.8M for 15 Early Stage Companies

February 12, 2016

Danny Cabrera on BioBots and the Future of 3D Bioprinting

February 8, 2016

BioBots is a recently formed 3D bioprinting company that uses 3D printing technology to print living tissues into any shape. Measured at just 12 inches squared, this little desktop bioprinter has numerous applications depending on the type of Bio-Ink used which consist of different mixtures of cells and bio-compatible materials. Danny Cabrera, the Co-founder and […]