GRAND RAPIDS - Intervention Insights, a health care IT company that helps community oncologists develop individualized patient treatment plans, announced Tuesday the close of $7.2 million in Series B financing. The deal was co-led by Michigan venture investor Beringea and Louisville, Ky.-based Chrysalis Ventures. They were joined by Hopen Life Sciences, Michigan Accelerator Fund I
GRAND RAPIDS ? In a study published recently in the journal "Science Signaling" Van Andel Research Institute scientists demonstrate on the molecular level how the anti-malaria drug chloroquine represses inflammation, which may provide a blueprint for new strategies for treating inflammation and a multitude of autoimmune diseases such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and certain cancers.
DETROIT - The Wayne State University College of Nursing received a $200,000 grant from the Michigan Nursing Corps to enhance its simulation technology for teaching clinical nursing skills. The college's simulation laboratories use life-sized manikins programmed to exhibit a wide range of biological responses and medical conditions. This technology allows nursing students to learn and
DETROIT - Mark Juzych, M.D., M.H.S.A., of Bloomfield Township, has been appointed chair of the Wayne State University School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology and director of the Kresge Eye Institute. The appointment is effective Aug. 1. "Dr. Juzych has been deeply involved in all aspects of the ophthalmology department and has demonstrated tremendous commitment
LANSING - After a two-month battle, the Michigan Senate finally put together the support needed to the proposed 1 percent health insurance claims tax that is essential to providing the funding to support the spending allocated for Medicaid. Democrats still seemed reticent to support the proposal after putting up almost no support for a companion
DETROIT - Roberta Sonnino, M.D., has been appointed vice dean of Faculty Affairs for the Wayne State University School of Medicine and associate provost for Medical Affairs for the university. She begins her duties Sept. 1. Dr. Sonnino comes to WSU from the University of Minnesota Medical School, where she has served as associate dean
GRAND RAPIDS ? Most of us have had a doctor prescribe an antibiotic for a stubborn bacterial infection, or for a cut that gets infected. However, prescribing an antibiotic to fight cancer? In fact, anti-cancer antibiotics have been used since the 1950s to successfully treat several forms of cancer, but often the side effects limit
DETROIT - A team of Wayne State University researchers was awarded $330,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop a 3-D neural probe that will help suppress tinnitus ? ringing of the ears ? that is said to affect more than 250 million people worldwide. There is an increasing need for devices and tools that
GRAND RAPIDS - MichBio, the association for Michigan's bioscience industry, announced that Kim Popovits, president and CEO of Genomic Health, Inc. will keynote the 2011 MichBio Expo & Conference. The MichBio Expo & Conference is Michigan's largest gathering of bioscience-related professionals. It is set for November 2-3 at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids. ?We?re excited
ANN ARBOR - Building upon a series of successful preclinical and clinical studies, NanoBio Corporation today announced the initiation of a second tolerability and immunogenicity study designed to test and further optimize its novel nanoemulsion-based intranasal vaccine adjuvant. In 2009, NanoBio tested its nanoemulsion adjuvant in combination with the commercial influenza vaccine Fluzone, in a