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Biotech in New Jersey: Nine companies leading the charge - Labiotech

Table of contents · BioAegis Therapeutics · Celularity · EpiBone · Iveric Bio · Kayothera · Nuvectis Pharma · PDS Biotechnology · Rocket Pharmaceuticals …

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Wear the world in you! The glorious future of Wearable Technology

Many experts consider this as the biggest leap in wearable technology. Let us take a look at some of the implantable wearables that could soon be a part of our life....[Read more]

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Once upon a time, we thought bones couldn’t regrow. Now we know they do. And we can show them how. At EpiBone we are on a mission to use groundbreaking research to transform skeletal repair. Our approach is clear: We practice impeccable science to solve challenging problems, to make leaps in tissue engineering that no one has made before.

EpiBone - A revolutionary bone reconstruction company

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Cedars-Sinai Accelerator welcomes 8 health tech companies from across US

- Bu Nuadox Crew -

On September 27, the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator announced it is welcoming eight health tech companies from across the United States to its seventh accelerator class.

Enroute- Enroute is focused on optimizing in-hospital logistics so that people and supplies get where they need to be as efficiently as possible. Their software can be used to request transporters, notify transporters and staff of updates, and confirm trip confirmation. They are also developing proprietary algorithms to track and predict future movements, requests and journey times.

EpiBone- EpiBone is a revolutionary skeletal reconstruction company that allows patients to “grow their own bone” or replace the cartilage in their joints. EpiBone’s technology utilizes stem cells and a scan of the patient’s defect to construct and cultivate a defect-specific bone or cartilage graft.

Eternally- Eternally assists patients with the completion of an advance directive. The company partners with health systems to identify patients in need of an advance directive, and then provides virtual or phone-based coaching to guide patients through the process, facilitated by Eternally's team of licensed clinical social workers. The completed advance directive is then filed electronically into the patient's electronic medical record.

Euphoria- Euphoria is a tech company offering a suite of technologies through iOS and Android apps to provide information and resources for transgender individuals during their process of gender transition. Apps include "Solace" – a resource hub for an individual user's legal, medical and social transition goals – and "Bliss" – a platform for those transitioning to invest in U.S. Treasury bills to afford the $150,000 average cost of transition.

FlexTogether- FlexTogether provides peer motivation and accessible fitness instruction for aging patients and those who are isolated. Patients are paired with a peer motivator, such as a hospital volunteer or a FlexTogether staff member. For the duration of the program, patients meet online weekly to video chat and watch specialized fitness videos with their volunteer.

inTandem Health- inTandem Health provides peer-to-peer support groups for newly diagnosed patients, connecting them digitally to other patients who have experienced the same diagnosis.

Optio3- Optio3 uses cloud-based software to aggregate and analyze data from a variety of smart devices in the hospital to identify areas that could be more efficient at a facility level. The software assists hospitals with comprehensive risk management and compliance, better asset management, and improved maintenance operations.

Rhaeos- Rhaeos is developing FlowSense, a wireless, noninvasive thermal flow sensor that can be mounted on a patient’s skin overlying an implantable shunt to detect the presence and magnitude of cerebrospinal fluid in a short amount of time. The company’s goal is to allow for the monitoring of shunt function in clinics, inpatient settings, emergency departments and homes, reducing the need for unnecessary imaging, hospital visits and admissions.

Source: Cedars-Sinai

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Producing Human Bones by NINA TANDON

Nina Tandon is an American Biomedical Engineer who researches on making human bones artificially. She also owns the company "EpiBone". #AmericanBiomedicalEngineer #biologist #CardiacTissueEngineering #CooperUnion #ElectricalEngineering #EpiBone #MIT #NinaTandon #SeniorTedfellow #SuperCellsBuildingwithBiology Read the full article

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10 Women Scientists & Mathematicians That Are Changing the World

Photo sourced from www.colorlines.com.

By Sophie Dorf-Kamienny

In 2015, women made up nearly half of the workforce, yet only 26 percent of workers in science, math, engineering and technology were women. In the famously male-dominated field, women are constantly advancing and breaking the glass ceiling; however, countless female scientists and mathematicians go unrecognized. Here are 9 women in the field that serve as inspirations to the next generation.

#1: Katrin Amunts

Katrin Amunts is a neuroscientist from Eastern Germany who completed her higher education in Russia during the cold war. She succeeded in creating the most detailed 3D model of the human brain, deemed “BigBrain.” She began her career focusing on pediatric cerebral palsy research, and later became interested in brain-mapping in the 1990s. She is currently the director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at the Jülich Research Center in Germany. Photo source.

#2: Marcela Uliano da Silva

Marcela Uliano da Silva, a Brazilian computational biologist, is venturing to preserve biodiversity, specifically in South America. She aims to use genes as a defense against Invasive Golden Mussels which spread from Asia to South America and are a hazard to the Amazon River. She succeeded in sequencing the mussel’s genome, and hopes to find biological traits that could be targeted to prevent the mussels from reaching the Amazon River. She was a finalist on the EURAXESS Science Slam Brazil and was recently awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship. Photo source.

#3: Flossie Wong-Staal

Born in China, Flossie Wong-Staal was the first in her family to attend college. In 1983, she and her colleagues discovered that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). She later managed to clone and genetically map the HIV virus, which was vital in the development of HIV blood tests and screenings. She held positions such as the Florence Riford Chair in AIDS Research at the University of California, San Diego, Chair of the UCSD Center for AIDS Research, and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies, and of the convocation at Academia Sinica, which is a significant Taiwanese institution for research. She became a professor emerita at UCSD after retirement, and the vice president and chief scientific officer of iTherX Pharmaceuticals (previously named Immusol). Photo source.

#4: Nina Tandon

Nina Tandon is the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, which grows bones for skeletal reconstruction, and is the first company to do so. She, along with Mitchell Joachim, wrote the book Super Cells: Building With Biology in 2014, which is centered around modern biotechnology. Tandon is an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Cooper Union, a TED Senior Fellow, and was previously a Staff Associate Postdoctoral Researcher in the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia University. Her work has been published in Nature Protocols and Lab on a Chip. Photo source.

#5: Katherine Johnson

One of the subjects of the 2016 film Hidden Figures, Katherine Johnson worked for the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA), which later was replaced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). At NASA, Johnson’s team was given the task of calculating how to successfully send a human into space who would able to return back to earth. Her calculations were crucial in sending astronaut Alan Shepard, and later John Glenn, into orbit. She was awarded the National Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama, and NASA built a computational research facility in her name. Photo source.

#6: Katherine Freese

Katherine Freese is a theoretical astrophysicist who is studying the mysteries behind dark matter. She was one of the first women to major in physics at Princeton University, and is currently a faculty member at both the University of Michigan and Stockholm University. According to her University of Michigan profile, “She has been working to identify the dark matter and dark energy that permeate the universe as well as to build a successful model for the early universe immediately after the Big Bang.” In addition, she is the author of The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter, which was published in 2014. Photo source.

#7: Heather Williams

Heather Williams is a Senior Medical Physicist for Nuclear Medicine at Central Manchester University Hospitals and and Honorary Lecturer in the Centre for Imaging Sciences at Manchester University. She is the Chair of the Institute of Physics, as well as Director of ScienceGrrl, an organization which Williams helped establish to support women in the male-dominated STEM field. Photo source.

#8: Mae C. Jemison

Astronaut Mae C. Jemison is a physician as well as the first African-American woman to enter space when she spent over a week in the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992. She had received degrees in chemical engineering and African American studies from Stanford University, and received her medical doctorate from Cornell University. She had also spent a summer volunteering at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand and was a Peace Corps medical officer in West Africa. Photo source.

#9: Antonia Novella

Born in Puerto Rico, Antonia Novella was the first Latina woman to be appointed Surgeon General of the United States. She was appointed by President George H. W. Bush and her term began in 1990. As Surgeon General, she was crucial in the establishment of the Healthy Children Ready to Learn Initiative, and placed emphasis on the health of women, children and minorities. Prior to this position, she was the project officer at the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, where she joined the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She then served as Deputy Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and later became the Coordinator for AIDS Research for the NICHD. Photo source.

#10: Katie Hunt

Katie Hunt is an archeologist who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she was 22 years old. This sparked an interest in the ancient roots of cancer, and she now studies paleo-oncology, which is the study of cancer in ancient populations. She unearthed historical literature which documented not only that cancer existed, but that doctors at the time tried specified treatments such as surgery and fasting. Hunt studies bones to find evidence of cancer that had spread, as many types of cancer result in mets to the bones. She and her colleagues established the Ancient Cancer Foundation, and within that the Paleo-oncology Research Organization. Photo source.

Sophie Dorf-Kamienny is a rising 10th grade student at Marlborough School, an all-girls high school in Los Angeles, California. She is a 2017 summer intern at Ms. Magazine and Girls Learn International, and an associate editor on her school newspaper.

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Thirty-one women who “run the world” — and what can be learned from them

Today, a new book called “Girls Who Run the World” hits real and virtual bookshelves, and for anyone with a middle-school aged kid or looking to inspire a high-schooler, it might be worth checking out. Featuring 31 women who are the CEOs of companies that they have created themselves — think Spanx, Glossier, Caribou Sciences, and Stitch Fix — each of their stories underscores that dreams really can be made into reality when you want something badly enough.

We talked yesterday with the book’s author, Diana Kapp, a longtime essaying (with an MBA from Stanford) who authored the book in part to encourage her own teenage daughter to pursue her passions while making clear there will be obstacles, always, to overcome.

TC: You have an interesting and fairly broad mix of powerful women in this book. How did you choose who to profile?

DK: I went after stories that are compelling and innovative, while trying to ensure that not every woman has a degree from either Stanford or MIT.  I picked Anne Wojcicki because she’s a pioneer in the field of DNA testing. Nina Tandon of Epibone is working on growing artificial bones that can be put into the body. Christina Stembell of Farmgirl Flowers grew up on a farm and never went to college. Tracy Young was a construction project engineer who wound up selling her company to Autodesk. I could have written about 200 more women; there are so many good stories that are just not told.

TC: How much time did you spend with each of them?

DK: It really varied. I met some in person, like Tina Sharkey of Brandless and Christina (Stembell) and Karen Goldin of Hint Water. I interviewed a lot of them on the phone. I really wanted to tell the story of them taking an idea and having the guts to trust their own instincts and go after that idea, despite a lot of naysaying and difficulty fundraising. People though Stitch Fix was an inventory nightmare, for example. At Minted, founder and CEO Mariam Naficy opened her online stationary store and not a single box sold for the first 40 days.

TC: Who overcame the most of the women you interviewed?

DK: I love the story of Jesse Genet of Lumi, who became obsessed with screen printing in high school and would use every birthday to ask for some esoteric piece of printing equipment, finding out along the way about some light-activated agent that you could use for printing and driving six hours to get this product out of someone’s basement. Today, her company provides packaging to a growing number of consumer companies, from Rockets to Awesome to Blue Bottle Coffee and I think she’s just brilliant.

Jennifer Hyman and Jenny Fleiss meanwhile bought 100 dresses in their own sizes in case [Rent the Runway] didn’t work. Katrina Lake similarly bought clothes on her credit card, then sent them to friends and used paper and pencil to mark down feedback before hiring a TaskRabbit to help track that data. What’s important about all of these stories is that these women took steps that others can take, too. They started with tiny pilot programs. They aren’t the kids of entrepreneurs. They weren’t preordained to start companies. And while you and I might read about them in Fast Company or listen to podcasts about them, my 14-year-old doesn’t.  I think it’s important for kids to read about people who would not take no for an answer, who got turned down by 40 VCs and kept pitching.

TC: You mentioned that you tried featuring women of different backgrounds. What were some of the unifying threads between them?

DK: One thing that does connect them is parents who ditched the idea of perfectionism. They let their girls take their own path. [PopSugar founder and president] Lisa Sugar’s parents let her stay up because she was obsessed with late-night TV, and that’s how she got into being a pop culture critic and wound up launching a blog that had a million readers within a year. Sara Blakeley of Spanx told me her dad didn’t care of what other people thought of him, which was a powerful idea for a kid to be marinating in; it gave her more freedom to be herself and to take her own path. Jesse [Genet] realized if she took two classes after the summer of her junior year in high school, she could graduate early and take her T-shirt printing business to L.A. where she had data on the number of shops per block, and when she pitched her parents on these ideas, they listened to her. They let her take a non-traditional path.

TC: Did any or many of these founders take time off to raise their children?

DK: I don’t know that they took time off, but 18 of the 31 have children, and 10 of them have three or four children, so they’re managing to have big families. Katia Beauchamp ran Birchbox while on bedrest with her four child. SoulCycles’ founders brought their daughters to the studios they were opening up and had them pitch in. Karen Goldin, who was inspired to start her company after working in the software industry and gaining weight and drinking too much Diet Coke, really wanted to get [sales] going in Whole Foods before getting induced with her second child, so she brought bottles over to a local store [en route to the hospital]. When, the next day, the stock guy called to tell her all the cases were gone, she thought they’d been stolen.

I’m sure that like every parent, they feel the pull to spend time with their kids, but they are so turned on by what they are doing. You don’t [start a company] unless you have incredible passion for your idea because it’s so hard. And I love that they are having children but still chasing after something that’s meaningful to them and that they think society really needs. I think that’s a fantastic model for children.

TC: Were the people you’ve profile been helped by other women along the way? Is that an important piece to their stories?

DK: There is a lot of support going on; they definitely have a network. Many sit on each other’s boards or advisory committees. Katrina Lake is on Emily Weiss’s board [at Glossier]. Some of them sit on the board of [former model] Christie Turlington’s organization, Every Mother Counts.

Leslie Blodgett , who sold her company Bare Escentuals to Shiseido acquired in 2010 for $1.7 billion, is funding other women. She’s also now a student at Stanford and writing a book. She wants to have another chapter.

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Important Women in STEM

STEM careers have been fields long dominated by males. Females are largely underrepresented in this industry. They hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs, even though they make up almost half of the total workforce in the United States. However, current women in the field are working hard to change these discouraging numbers by acting as female role models and inspiring young girls to join the industry.

One inspirational woman in a STEM field is neurobiologist Cori Bargmann, who is known for her studies on roundworms. In her studies, she manipulates certain genes in the worms and observes its effect on behavior. Since many of the gene mechanisms in these worms are similar to those of mammals, she is able to uncover the complex connections between brain function and behavior. To further the advancement of research on the human brain, Bargmann established the Brain Research Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative. The program is working on developing new technologies to examine how brain cells interact. This is all part of an effort to find the root causes of conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and autism.

Another woman in STEM that is an inspiration to young girls is neuroscientist Katrin Amunts. She is the director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at the Jülich Research Center in Germany. She is currently leading a team of researchers on BigBrain, a project to create the most detailed 3D map of the human brain as part of the Human Brain Project. This will make it easier for researchers to analyze the telltale signs of neurological diseases and disorders and examine the way drugs interact with diseased brains, which will ultimately help lead to improved diagnoses and treatments.

Biomedical engineer Nina Tandon is also a source of inspiration. She is the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, the first company in the world that grows bones for skeletal reconstruction. Tandon uses multipotent stem cells from a patient’s fat cells to grow the bones needed for reconstruction. Because the stem cells are the body’s own cells, it is less likely to get rejected by the patient as compared with synthetic bone. Each EpiBone graft is custom-made, so it will have an exact fit, which could shorten the time needed for surgery and recovery.  

These women in STEM fields are revolutionizing science and using their research to come up with innovative ways to improve the world. They also serve an important role in helping inspire young girls to pursue a career in STEM by proving that women can succeed in male-dominated fields.

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Found on YouTube: We Can Now Grow Human Bones From Stem Cells! https://youtu.be/IZsn_hg15cM We Can Now Grow Human Bones From Stem Cells! ~Video Description: Scientists may have figured out how to grow bones in a lab, what does this mean for the future of implants? What Does Bone Marrow Actually Do? - https://youtu.be/XbRLMbDtiaA Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI We got nominated for a People's Choice Webby! That means, you can help us win. Please, take a minute and vote for us here (thanks!): http://ift.tt/2pa7LnR Get 15% off http://www.domain.com domain names and web hosting when you use coupon code SEEKER at checkout! Read More: We’re Not That Far From Being Able to Grow Human Bones in a Lab http://ift.tt/1FhuT93 “‘Grow your own bone’ might not sound like much of a business slogan, since even children do just that naturally. But EpiBone, a two-year-old company based in Harlem, New York, has adopted the slogan because it sees a big opportunity: Surgeons perform about a million bone grafts in the United States each year, either with the patient’s own bone tissue, necessitating two surgeries, or with synthetic or donated material, which a patient’s body sometimes rejects.” 3D-Printed 'HyperElastic Bone' Could Quickly Mend Breaks http://ift.tt/2ptlXZy “A cheap and easy to make synthetic bone material has been shown to stimulate new bone growth when implanted in the spines of rats and a monkey's skull, researchers said. Human trials using the biomaterial, called Hyper-Elastic Bone (HB), could begin in the next five years, according to the research team from Northwestern University.” Bone Growth http://ift.tt/1iybuFk “The skeleton of a newborn baby is made up of more than 300 parts, most of which are made of cartilage. Over time, most of this cartilage turns into bone, in a process called ossification. As the baby grows, some of its bones fuse together to form bigger bones.” ____________________ Seeker inspires us to see the world through the lens of science and evokes a sense of curiosity, optimism and adventure. Watch More Seeker on our website http://ift.tt/2eD8zBd Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel Seeker on Twitter http://twitter.com/seeker Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/tracedominguez Seeker on Facebook http://ift.tt/2mEKP1I Seeker on Google+ http://ift.tt/2fIxLqC Seeker http://www.seeker.com/ Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here: http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Special thanks to Amy Shira Teitel for hosting this episode of Seeker! Check Amy out on Twitter: https://twitter.com/astVintageSpace Written by: Lauren Ellis~

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Grow your own bone 3D printing company EpiBone raises $560k from Plum Alley Investments

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Nina Tandon

(1980)

Es una ingeniera biomédica y una de las fundadoras de EpiBone la primera compañía del mundo en hacer crecer huesos humanos mediante ingeniería de tejidos del mismo paciente.

Nina Tandon estudió Ingeniería eléctrica en Cooper Union, y mientras trabajaba en una gran empresa de telecomunicaciones siendo testigo directo de creación de tecnología, decidió entrar a una clase comunitaria de fisiología en Nueva Jersey. Aquí comenzó a ver los paralelos entre la electricidad y el cuerpo, descubriendo que las ecuaciones que mandan las señales a través de los nervios en los humanos son las mismas desarrolladas para cables transatlánticos. Así que se decidió a entrar a la universidad pensando en la biología como su guía, graduándose de ingeniería eléctrica en MIT, bioeléctrica en el mismo lugar y luego biomedicina en Columbia.

Uno de sus experimentos más singulares cuando estudiaba en Italia con una beca Fullbright, sobre la reconstrucción de partes y órganos del cuerpo, fue la creación de una nariz electrónica que podía “oler” el cáncer de pulmones en el aliento de los pacientes. Luego durante su doctorado en Columbia, se especializó en estimulación eléctrica para ingeniería en tejido de piel, neural, óseo y cardíaco, donde logró crear corazones de 3 mm que latían.

Hoy además es la fundadora de Epibone, un emprendimiento científico que hace crecer huesos artificiales para una persona desde sus propias células. Usando vástagos de células adultas del paciente, un modelo 3D y un biorreactor, crean el hueso específico que se necesita. Este proyecto podría solucionarle la vida a 900.000 personas en Estados Unidos que requieren “huesos nuevos”.  

Su sueño es crear todo tipo partes del cuerpo, como órganos y diferentes tejidos, desde el mismo cuerpo de una persona a través de la ingeniería. Si el material actual de las prótesis y reemplazos de órganos son hechos de plástico y metal, ella quiere lograrlo desde el propio humano y sus células.

Su conocimiento y proyectos sobre ingeniería, electricidad y células la tiene hoy supervisando proyectos de ingeniería en Cooper Union y en la Universidad de Columbia, además de ser la CEO de Epibone.Además es una TED: le ha valido diferentes premios como  que promueve una solución hecha para cada persona, y no soluciones científicas promedio.

Además colabora con Brooklyn´s Genspace (un espacio comunitario de biotecnología) donde enseña a artistas y arquitectos como incorporar biología en sus proyectos.

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Thinking Ahead: New York City Bioscience Needs a Tugboat

Nina Tandon is CEO and co-founder of NYC-based bioscience company EpiBone. As the world's first company that grows living human bones from your own cells for skeletal reconstruction, it is paving the way for the personalized medicine.

In our latest Thinking Ahead post, Nina shares her passion for New York and  what more can be done to transform the city into a true hub for the life sciences.

Read her post here.

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On the brink of entering human trials, a new bone transplant technology could dramatically reduce the risks of today that are involved with the procedure. Instead of using a donor or cadaver, EpiBone encourage patients to grow their own replacement bone. A cow bone is milled down to the exact size and shape required for the transplants, and once ‘seeded’ with the patient’s stem cells, will eventually grow a replica of the patient’s bone.

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Imagine using your own stem cells to "grow your own bone" for skeletal reconstruction. That's exactly what startup EpiBone is doing -- they take a scan of a patient’s bone defect and use the patient’s own stem cells to engineer an anatomically precise bone graft that has no risk of immune rejection: http://youtu.be/3_lk4Q-2x8I.

At #TEDMED 2014, not only will EpiBone be part of the #TEDMEDHive community of startups, but CEO, Nina Tandon, will also be taking the stage as part of Session 4: "Stealing Smart": http://bit.ly/1mYzf89.