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AdvaMed Announces VentConnect Online Platform to Scale the Production and Distribution of Ventilators

May 4, 2020 | Local, National, Regional

New portal developed with the Aerospace Industries Association and Google connects ventilator component suppliers with manufacturers WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of the medical technology industry’s multi-front battle to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic,...

NIH Launches $1.5B Rapid COVID-19 Testing Technology Challenge

May 4, 2020 | International, Local, National, Regional

A new initiative announced by the National Institutes of Health (HNIH), backed by a $1.5 billion investment from federal stimulus funding, aims to speed innovation, development, and commercialization of COVID-19 testing technologies. Dubbed the Rapid Acceleration of...

ProThera Biologics and Takeda Enter Global Licensing Agreement to Develop Novel Plasma-Derived Therapy Based on Inter-alpha Inhibitor Proteins (IAIP)

Apr 24, 2020 | International, Local, National, Regional

Providence, R.I., and Osaka, JAPAN, April 23, 2020 – ProThera Biologics, Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited [TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK] (“Takeda”) today announced that they have entered into a global licensing agreement to develop a novel plasma-derived...

PROJO Editorial—My Turn: Patrice Milos, RI Bio Board: Massive testing can help reopen economy

Apr 7, 2020 | Local

In the face of today’s global health pandemic, we are experiencing a time of tremendous uncertainty. As the former CEO of a molecular diagnostic laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I believe advanced diagnostic technologies are ready to address the challenges we...

Jay Round, RI Bio’s Entrepreneur in Residence on GoLocalProv

Mar 26, 2020 | Local

Jay Round, RI Bio’s Entrepreneur in Residence, sat down with Josh Fenton of GoLocalProv to discuss the developing life science sector in the Ocean State. Highlights include RI’s new neurology R&D institutions, an incredibly promising, homegrown ocular therapy...