GRAND RAPIDS - Sisu Global Health, a Michigan-based medical device startup company, has been nominated for the Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development grant, as part of a global competition for technologies impacting infant and maternal health. Sisu was nominated among more than 500 applicants including Fortune 500 companies, major research universities,
NOVI - Online registration is open for INNO-VENTION 2014, Southeastern Michigan?s premier health care and life science conference, Oct. 21-22 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. ?This is a very popular event and it?s gotten bigger every year, with last year?s conference drawing more than 600 people,? Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said.
LANSING - Total enrollment in Healthy Michigan, the state's expanded Medicaid eligibility program, has topped more than 355,000 people, the Department of Community Health showed on Monday. The latest milestone was reached less than one month after enrollments hit 320,000, which was the total expected for all of 2014. If enrollments continue at the current
GRAND RAPIDS ? Ideomed a developer of mobile health solutions, has received word from the Food & Drug Administration that its mobile health app Abriiz meets the definition of a medical device for which the FDA intends to exercise Enforcement Discretion. This designation identifies mobile medical devices that ?are not subject to further FDA regulatory
DETROIT - Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will be the keynote speaker at the 10th Annual MichBio Expo & Conference Center at MotorCity Casino on Sept. 30. Registration opened July 31. Hamburg, as FDA Commissioner, is advancing regulatory science, medical product innovation and globalization of the agency, while
LANSING - As a MichBio member, did you know that your company can save up to 33 percent on your shipping needs via MichBio?s FedEx Advantage Program? This includes great discounts on FedEx?s CryoPort Deep Frozen Solutions, with temperature control down to -150C. In addition, we?ll soon be rolling out additional Michigan-region savings for specialty
PONTIAC - Online registration is open for INNO-VENTION 2014, now in its third year, scheduled for Oct. 21-22 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. Along with the Medical Main Street Network, INNO-VENTION 2014 will companies help build valuable relationships and productive collaborations. INNO-VENTION 2014 includes: Pre-conference networking reception Demonstration Alley exhibitors Expanded Commercialization Competition,
LANSING - Two separate federal circuit courts of appeals issued conflicting rulings on the same issue in the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Tuesday on the question of whether residents in state operating under the federal health care exchange can receive tax subsidies to purchase insurance. One ruling held that residents in
ANN ARBOR - In Mid-June, GRCurrent, the Grand Rapids SmartZone based at GVSU?s Cook-DeVos Health Sciences Center, graciously hosted a BioMixer. The food and beverage had a distinctly World Cup flare and a flat screen hook-up allowed attendees to keep tabs on the games being played. It all made for good networking and a fun
ANN ARBOR ? MichBio has posted five new life sciences jobs at the MichBio Career Center. Application Scientist Rubicon Genomics - Ann Arbor Rubicon Genomics is a leader in the development and commercialization of sample-specific pre-analytical processes to improve the performance and capabilities of DNA and RNA platforms for research and clinical testing. The Application