MedTech News

• Kindling the Flame of Growth: Scott Baxter’s Leadership Saga at PEKO, 8/28/2023
• Internship/Co-Op Resource Tool Introduced, 3/13/2023
• Join an Affinity Group!, 2/17/2023
• Partner Spotlight: MedTech, 2/1/2023
• Happy Holidays from MedTech!, 12/22/2022
• Building MedTech Synergies at Olympus’ Worldclass Corporate Campus, 12/6/2022
• MedTech Adds New Industry Leaders to Board of Directors, 11/8/2022
• In Conversation with Winthrop Thurlow, Executive Director of MedTech, On developing the “I-90 Corridor” , 6/21/2022
• REGENERON COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF CHECKMATE PHARMACEUTICALS, 5/31/2022
• FDA Issues First Batch of Warning Letters to Delta-8 THC Product Manufacturers, 5/6/2022
• MedTech Honors Nine Outstanding Contributions in New York’s Bio/Med Ecosphere, 1/13/2022
• Four MedTech Members Make Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs Of 2021, 4/14/2021
• Ask the Expert: Win Thurlow, MedTech Association, 4/5/2021
• MedTech salutes as Project of the Year the saliva swab test for coronavirus, 12/31/2020
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• Executive Order, 3/23/2020
• MedTech Responds to the Coronavirus - UPDATE, 3/13/2020
• MedTech Responds to the Coronavirus, 3/6/2020

Member News

• Bridging the Gap Between Startups and Manufacturers Key to Boosting Rochester’s Innovation Economy, 9/28/2023
• RIT Accepting Applications for Online Spring 2024, 9/28/2023
• Rochester's Prolivio Launches KHIO Migraine Cooling Headband and Pre-Order Availability, 9/27/2023
• Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy – First Professional Practice Guidelines, 9/7/2023
• Preparing for a Meeting with the Innovation Law Center, 8/28/2023
• US FDA Approves Regeneron's Ultra-Rare Blood Disease Drug, 8/25/2023
• Upstate Startup Wins SUNY Award for Revolutionary Corneal Injury Treatment, 8/22/2023
• Forever Orange Campaign Gift to Support Launch of Libraries’ Orange Innovation Fund, 8/21/2023
• Biopharma Firm Zetagen Raises $9.79m in Series B Financing Round, 8/14/2023
• James Henderson Named Director, Heidi Hehnly Named Associate Director of BioInspired Institute, 7/28/2023
• BioInspired Institute Awards 2 Cross-Institutional Project Grants, 7/27/2023
• QuidelOrtho Ranks No. 1 in Customer Satisfaction for Six Years in a Row, 7/26/2023
• Curia and MilliporeSigma sign deal for use of cell line for proteins and antibodies, 7/24/2023
• iuvo BioScience Hires Industry Executive to Lead Clinical Research Team, 7/24/2023
• Retia Medical Announces the acquisition of its Argos hemodynamic monitor by Temple University, 7/20/2023
• FDA Issues First Draft Guidance on Clinical Trials for Psychedelic Drug Developers, 7/7/2023
• Thermo Fisher to buy real-world evidence company CorEvitas for $913M, 7/6/2023
• Retia Medical and The JANZ Corporation Announce Strategic Partnership Agreement, 6/28/2023
• Casana Announces the Appointment of Shikha Anand, M.D., As Chief Medical Officer, 6/22/2023
• Peko Precision Products: A Facilitator for Turnkey New Product Development Services, 6/20/2023
• Stephen Dewhurst Appointed Vice President for Research, 6/20/2023
• Kelsey Moody on Supporting New Researchers with Ichor, 6/12/2023
• Boldly Growing: A Start-Up Founder's Guide to Sustainable Success, 6/5/2023
• Andro Receives $50K FuzeHub Grant for Wireless Project, 5/25/2023
• Office of Research and College of Law Partner to Advance Technology Transfer; College of Law Appoints New Professor of Practice, 5/18/2023
• University of Rochester awarded $1M for laser-research project, finalist in national science competition, 5/16/2023
• QuidelOrtho Receives FDA De Novo Classification For Two SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Tests, 5/8/2023
• RPI President Urges Regional, Collaborative Approach to Innovation, 5/4/2023
• Casana Receives FDA Clearance for Heart Health Smart Toilet Seat, 5/1/2023
• The Bonadio Group Announces Executive Appointments & Several Leadership Roles to Support Strategic Transformation, 5/1/2023
• The Bonadio Group Climbs Top 100 Accounting Firms List; Named Top Regional Firm in Mid-Atlantic, 4/13/2023
• The Choice: Specialist vs Generalist Investment Bankers, 4/12/2023
• iuvo BioScience Hires Industry Executive to Lead Commercial Organization, 4/3/2023
• QuidelOrtho COVID Test is First to Win FDA Nod via Premarket Review, 3/9/2023
• RIT Executive MBA with Life Sciences Electives, 3/9/2023
• Medicinal Psychedelics: A Potential Pathway to Treating Mental Health Conditions, 3/7/2023
• The Bonadio Group Acquires Webber CPA, 3/6/2023
• Quadrant Biosciences Named to Distinguished List by The Healthcare Technology Report, 2/21/2023
• Dedicated to Helping Others, Starting in Our Own Office, 2/15/2023
• Rich Uhlig on Leadership: Set the Goal, Empower and Reward your Team, Improve Lives, 2/14/2023
• New York-Based Bioscience Firm Moves Subsidiary’s Headquarters to the Rand Building, 2/13/2023
• Manufacturers Should Work Diligently to Transition Medical Devices, 1/29/2023
• Syracuse University College of Law’s Innovation Law Center Recognized by Bloomberg Law’s Law School Innovation Program, 1/23/2023
• CNY Company Uses Saliva Test to Help Diagnose Concussion in Only 6 to 8 Hours, 1/16/2023
• PEKO Precision Products: Innovating & Outsourcing Manufacturing Ideas for Tomorrow, 1/16/2023
• From Funding to Research Projects, Garwood Medical Had a Busy 2022, 1/10/2023
• Garwood Medical Devices, LLC named as an Awardee in the Innovations for Vets QuickFire Challenge Innovation, 12/16/2022
• Entrepreneur Magazine, Princeton Review name UB a top undergrad school for entrepreneurship, 12/12/2022
• Stephen J. Thomas, MD, named the Frank E. Young, MD ’56 and Leanne Young Endowed Chair of Microbiology, 11/18/2022
• Patent Awarded for Saliva-Based Test to Help Diagnose Concussion and Predict Duration of Symptoms, 11/16/2022
• Regeneron Wins Broader US Use of Cancer Immunotherapy, 11/9/2022
• The Bonadio Group Recognized as Best CPA Firm for Women and Equity Leadership, 11/2/2022
• Quidel and World Champion Log Angeles Rams Partner to Combat COVID-19 and Promote Health Awareness in the L.A. Community, 10/5/2022
• iuvo BioScience to be Acquired by Ampersand Capital Partners, 9/28/2022
• New Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) in Technology Law & Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University, 9/27/2022
• J&J Opens New Research Hub Near San Francisco, 9/20/2022
• Syracuse University Joins Consortium in NSF I-Corps Hub’s $15M STEM Innovation Program, 9/19/2022
• Lento Bio Raises $680,000 in Oversubscribed Seed Round Led by Ichor Life Sciences, 9/6/2022
• Building a bridge between science and medicine at Regeneron, 8/29/2022
• Gilroy Kernan & Gilroy Recognized Nationally As Top Insurance Workplace 2022, 8/29/2022
• Announcing Psychedelics & Mental Health Therapies Practice, 8/24/2022
• Ichor Life Sciences Invests $1.5 Million in Mitochem Therapeutics for Ocular Aging Disease Research, 8/11/2022
• Welcome Jesse Hwang to the JLABS @ NYC team!, 8/11/2022
• FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Trials, 8/10/2022
• CNYBAC selects Medical Device Innovation Challenge teams, 7/28/2022
• Compliance expert breaks down new cannabis regulations in New York state, 7/5/2022
• QuidelOrtho Formed by the Completion of Transaction Combining Quidel and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, 7/1/2022
• Curia and Replicate Bioscience Enter Strategic Collaboration to Create Groundbreaking Development Platform for Self-Replicating RNA (srRNA), 6/10/2022
• LENTO BIO, AN ICHOR LIFE SCIENCES PORTFOLIO COMPANY, LAUNCHES WITH AIMS TO DEVELOP ANTI-GLYCATION DRUGS FOR PRESBYOPIA AND DISEASES OF AGING, 6/9/2022
• Regeneron buys control of cancer drug Libtayo from Sanofi, 6/2/2022
• The CEO Views identifies PEKO Precision Products in the Top 10 Innovative Brands of the Year 2022, 5/31/2022
• Finger Lakes Fund reports strong 2021 performance, 5/24/2022
• Ichor Life Sciences Portfolio Company, Auctus Biologics, Awarded NSF Grant to Develop New SPR Chip Technology, 5/20/2022
• Ask the Expert: Elizabeth Cain – CAMP, 5/16/2022
• Interview with Chockalingam “Palani” Palaniappan, Ph.D, Chief Innovation Officer, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, 5/5/2022
• CONMED Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire In2Bones Global, Inc., 5/4/2022
• Upstate to award three with honorary degrees at Commencement May 1, 4/28/2022
• Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Recognized with Fifth Prestigious Edison Award for Highly Accurate COVID-19 Solution, 4/26/2022
• A promising cancer drug leads Regeneron to reconsider its aversion to M&A, 4/19/2022
• Barclay Damon Live: Labor & Employment Podcast—"What's Up With COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates: Where Are We Now?", 4/14/2022
• Rochester ‘a crucible of innovation’ says NSF director during campus visit, 4/12/2022
• Rochester accelerates its pace to become top tech hub in America, 4/11/2022
• Cannabis Forethought: Labeling, Warnings and Risk Mitigation, 3/30/2022
• Everyday Epidemiology: How the pandemic brought science to the forefront of public consciousness, 3/30/2022
• Curia Recognized on Forbes America’s Best Employers 2022 List, 3/24/2022
• Connecting the dots between aging, Alzheimer’s, and ‘junk DNA’, 3/16/2022
• Clarkson University Features Professor Aaron Wolfe for Publication in Leukemia Diagnostics ​, 3/14/2022
• Circuit Clinical raises $29M from strategic, VC and local investors, 3/10/2022
• Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Wins Bronze Stevie® Award for Customer Service and Support, 3/9/2022
• The Bonadio Group Launches New Consulting and Advisory Practice to Help Clients Drive Optimum Performance , 3/4/2022
• Clinical Trials Industry Leader, Dawn Furey, Joins Circuit Clinical as Chief Clinical Operations Officer, 3/2/2022
• PEKO Announces Construction of New Manufacturing Facility in NY Finger Lakes Region, 2/28/2022
• The National Science Foundation Awards Aurie with a $1 Million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Grant, 2/17/2022
• TriNet Enters into Exclusive Agreement with WeWork as HR Services Partner to WeWork Members in the U.S., 2/16/2022
• Buffalo startup wants to solve a $2 billion medical problem (and maybe a lot more), 2/13/2022
• CNY Biotech Medical Device Competition Won by Start-Ups Targeting Autism, Bedsores, 2/11/2022
• Kevin Mulvehill, Phillips Lytle Gearing Up for Growth, 2/10/2022
• Clarkson University Awarded $1.4 million From Regional Economic Development Council Funding Initiative, 2/8/2022
• RIT Introduces Life Sciences Executive MBA Program, 2/8/2022
• University at Buffalo Enables Business Innovation, 2/7/2022
• Phillips Lytle LLP Named Empire State Counsel Law Firm Honoree for Pro Bono Work, 2/3/2022
• Medidata Expands and Strengthens Decentralized Clinical Trial (DCT) Capabilities through Groundbreaking Partnership with Circuit Clinical, 1/26/2022
• FORTY ACCOMPLISHED YOUNG SCIENTISTS NAMED FINALISTS IN THE 2022 REGENERON SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH, 1/20/2022
• Medtronic to acquire cardiac arrhythmia treatment developer Affera, 1/10/2022
• Empire Discovery Institute enters research partnership with leading global healthcare company Novo Nordisk, 1/4/2022
• Baxter completes $12.5B acquisition of Hillrom, 12/13/2021
• Zetagen Therapeutics Awarded $2 Million Usd Grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for Phase 2 Study of Zetamet™ for Treatment of Metastatic Bone Cancers, 12/13/2021
• Thankful for nurses: J&J's new campaign aims to reset pandemic clock back to gratitude, 12/3/2021
• Zetamet™ Receives Breakthrough Device Designation from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Fda) for Treatment of Metastatic Bone Cancers, 12/1/2021
• Medtronic plans to bring next-gen diabetes tech to FDA this fiscal year, no spinoff planned, 11/23/2021
• The best places to work for medtech sales reps in 2022, 11/18/2021
• From Prototype to Production, 11/15/2021
• J&J sets out to split the world's largest healthcare conglomerate, hiving off the consumer division, 11/12/2021
• Medtronic targets supply chain for greenhouse gas emission reductions, 11/8/2021
• Hillrom posts Street-beating Q4 as Baxter merger remains on track, 11/5/2021
• European approval ‘a big deal’ as Medtronic moves forward with Hugo surgical robot, 10/25/2021
• Medtronic in negotiations to buy Israel-based insulin pump maker Triple Jump, 10/18/2021
• Brian J. Gerling L’99 Named Executive Director of Innovation Law Center, 10/11/2021
• PEKO Launches New PEKO University Program for Employee Training & Development, 10/5/2021
• Medtronic wins CE mark approval for radial artery access portfolio, 9/28/2021
• Medtronic CFO offers supply chain update as medical device industry concerns mount, 9/27/2021
• Elected Officials Join Regenerelle and Sanatela Medical for Grand-Opening of Bio-Tech Facilities, Dedication of New Clean Lab in Perinton, Announcement of Award, 9/9/2021
• Local technology advancements aid in health care equity, 9/9/2021
• Hillrom to Continue Advancing Connected Care™ as Part of Baxter; Combination to Transform the Global Healthcare Landscape, 9/2/2021
• Crystal Run Healthcare and Circuit Clinical Establish Partnership to Bring Clinical Trial Opportunities to Patients, 8/31/2021
• Curia invests $35 million to expand manufacturing in New York, 8/30/2021
• Regeneron, GSK see massive spike in Covid-19 mAb demand as US debates buying more, 8/27/2021
• FDA approves Medtronic next-gen Evolut FX TAVR system, 8/24/2021
• Regeneron earns mid-stage win for higher dose of Eylea, hoping to refresh its sales pitch, 8/24/2021
• Rep. Katko Announces Over $600K in Federal Funding for SUNY Upstate Medical University to Support Research on Dementia, 8/12/2021
• Improving Patient Outcomes Through Better, More Inclusive Skin Assessment, 8/6/2021
• Medtronic to acquire Intersect ENT in $1.1B deal, 8/6/2021
• In the Matrix: Engineering alumna co-founds high tech start-up Sanatela Medical Solutions and develops new tissue engineering system, 8/5/2021
• Sanatela Animal Wound Betterment GoFundMe, 8/5/2021
• Upstate’s CNY Biotech Accelerator selects Medical Device Innovation Challenge teams from largest pool of applications ever, 8/5/2021
• The Life Sciences Power 50, 8/1/2021
• Governor Cuomo Announces Selection of Laboratories to Assist the State in the Identification of COVID-19 Variants, 7/27/2021
• PEKO Advances Wind Energy Solutions with Full-Service Contract Manufacturing, 7/20/2021
• Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Proposes "The Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act", 7/20/2021
• Regeneron Plans 1,000 New Jobs in $1.8B HQ Expansion, 7/19/2021
• Governor Cuomo Announces Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics Creates More Than 500 Jobs, 7/16/2021
• AngioDynamics rises on Street-beating Q4 revenues, 7/13/2021
• AMRI Becomes Curia, 7/11/2021
• 3 Big Secrets About Industrial Machinery Manufacturing Companies, 7/1/2021
• Medtronic announces executive leadership changes, 6/30/2021
• Engineering students’ summer internship providing ‘practical, real-life’ experience, 6/29/2021
• Medtronic breaks ground on $200M campus in Colorado, 6/29/2021
• PEKO Announces New Interactive 3D Virtual Facility Tour, 6/29/2021
• Optimizing Your Manufacturing & Production with Custom Machinery, 6/25/2021
• PEKO Leads the Way in Energy Storage System Manufacturing, 6/25/2021
• What are Industrial Machinery Manufacturing Companies Doing to Utilize the Latest Technologies?, 6/23/2021
• Medtronic announces first clinical procedure with its Hugo robot, 6/22/2021
• Martha sets 800 million patient mark for Medtronic, 6/11/2021
• Circuit Clinical snags Maggio as senior adviser as it eyes dizzying growth, 6/2/2021
• Medtronic implant found better at predicting AFib than external device, 6/1/2021
• J&J's new cancer drug leads a growing pipeline of dual-targeting antibodies, 5/24/2021
• PEKO Named in Top 10 Most Promising Contract Manufacturing Companies, 5/24/2021
• Evolut TAVR just as good as open-heart surgery among younger people, Medtronic says, 5/18/2021
• How Regeneron developed its COVID-19-fighting antibody cocktail, 5/4/2021
• Rochester participating in clinical trials for modified Pfizer vaccine, 5/4/2021
• World Changing Ideas Awards 2021: Pandemic Response Finalists and Honorable Mentions, 5/4/2021
• New York Cannabis Law Prioritizes Social, Economic Equity, 4/29/2021
• Alumni join forces to market smart toilet seat, 4/28/2021
• Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Recognized With Prestigious Edison Award for Highly Accurate COVID-19 Solutions Capable of Mass-Scale Testing, 4/26/2021
• UB’s Buffalo Institute for Genomics’ partnership spurs growth in Buffalo’s life sciences industry, 4/21/2021
• Thermo Fisher to buy PPD for $17B, 4/15/2021
• The Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs Of 2021, 4/14/2021
• $53.7 million contract awarded to Ortho Clinical Diagnostics for COVID fight, 4/11/2021
• SUNY COVID-19 testing lab opens on South Campus, 4/6/2021
• The Extraordinary CNY Company You Probably Haven’t Heard Of, 4/6/2021
• AngioDynamics pushes through pandemic with no layoffs and more research spending, 4/1/2021
• UB, partners open new business incubator on medical campus, 3/19/2021
• Circuit Clinical in 'high-growth mode' after completing $7.5 million raise, 3/2/2021
• FDA authorizes J&J's one-shot coronavirus vaccine, 2/27/2021
• AMRI Joins Network of Approved Manufacturers of Lipid Excipients for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, 2/25/2021
• COVID-19 vaccine developed by UB startup approved for human trials, 2/24/2021
• FDA analysis finds J&J’s single-done COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective, 2/24/2021
• Why this week's FDA meeting on J&J's coronavirus vaccine will be important, 2/23/2021
• Regeneron wins FDA OK in lung cancer for immunotherapy rival to Merck's Keytruda, 2/22/2021
• Chancellor Malatras Announces SUNY Campuses Administered Over One Million COVID-19 Tests Since Start of 2020-2021 Academic Year, 2/17/2021
• These 5 medtech companies made it into the top 200 of Forbes’ best places to work list, 2/12/2021
• Ask the Expert: Innovation Law Center at the Syracuse University College of Law, 2/3/2021
• Medtronic Among Fortune Magazine’s “Most Admired Companies” for 2021, 1/29/2021
• Circuit Clinical receives $500,000 investment, 1/27/2021
• Johnson & Johnson gearing up for COVID-19 vaccine data announcement, 1/27/2021
• Steve Davis Interview on New York State Manufacturing Now Podcast, 1/27/2021
• Hillrom makes cardiac monitoring play with $375M BardyDx buy, 1/20/2021
• Thermo Fisher Scoops up Mesa Biotech for $450M, 1/19/2021
• Sanatela Moves Breakthrough Cancer Product into New Clean Room Manufacturing Facility in Fairport, NY, 1/14/2021
• Regeneron's Schleifer, Yancopoulos set their company's ambitions sky high with $1.4B on the table in performance awards, 1/5/2021
• MedTech salutes as Project of the Year the saliva swab test for coronavirus, 12/31/2020
• Peko Precision Products: Cradle to Grave Product Development Experts, 12/23/2020
• Circuit Clinical® And The Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences At The University at Buffalo Join Efforts In Regional And Global COVID-19 Clinical Research, 12/17/2020
• Garwood Medical wins grant to prevent biofilm formation on ortho implants, 12/16/2020
• UB industry partners step up to fight COVID-19, 12/15/2020
• University-industry partnership drives UB health care innovation toward societal impact, 12/8/2020
• Where Law, Technology and Business Intersect, 11/24/2020
• How one university system plans to send home thousands of students for Thanksgiving break, 11/22/2020
• Garwood Medical looks ahead to clinical trials through UB, 11/18/2020
• Medtronic Completes Acquisition of Medicrea, 11/16/2020
• J&J partners with UnitedHealth to hit the gas on vaccine trial enrollment, 11/13/2020
• Success Story: QTH 54 Software Brings Efficiencies to Simmons Machine Tool Corporation, 11/13/2020
• Medtronic launches ‘smart’ insulin pen, 11/12/2020
• Thermo Fisher Scientific continues growth trajectory, 10/23/2020
• FDA approves first Ebola virus treatment, 10/15/2020
• J&J wins FDA approval for ablation catheter, 10/7/2020
• RIT Sponsored Research garners record $82 million in funding, 9/25/2020
• Governor Cuomo and Chancellor Malatras Announce FDA Approval for Covid-19 Saliva Swab Test , 9/23/2020
• Buffalo-based Michelle Bonn on buying a new business during pandemic, 9/17/2020
• RIT again ranked among the best universities in the nation by U.S. News, 9/14/2020
• 5th Annual Strategic Risk Management Course, 8/26/2020
• Rome-based company, ANDRO, receives patent for device, 8/18/2020
• Tapecon Receives LE Cup Award from United Way, 8/10/2020
• J&J and BARDA agree to $1 billion for 100 million doses; Plasma reduces mortality by 50% — reports, 8/5/2020
• Working together, but safely distant, in RIT’s research labs, 7/23/2020
• Medtronic Foundation Commits $16M in Health and Education Partnerships to Address Racial Disparities and Advance Social Justice in Black Communities, 7/22/2020
• Tapecon Chairman Receives Lifetime Achievement Award in Manufacturing, 7/22/2020
• CNY Biotech Accelerator, Upstate Medical University 2020 Medical Device Innovation Challenge (MDIC) Participants Selected, 7/17/2020
• J&J, on the cusp of starting coronavirus vaccine trials, sets high bar for success, 7/16/2020
• Success Story: Ionica Sciences, 7/13/2020
• Regeneron advances COVID-19 antibody cocktail into late-stage trials, 7/6/2020
• Guideline Medical Acquires Compliance Team Inc., 6/10/2020
• Buffalo startup Circuit Clinical helps make Covid-19 saliva test a reality, 5/8/2020
• East Syracuse research clinic finds new, virtual ways to continue Alzheimer’s clinical trials, 4/21/2020
• Hillrom, Medtronic among 7 new ventilator contracts from HHS, 4/14/2020
• Researchers seek universal treatments to impede coronavirus, 4/7/2020
• COVID-19 Antibody Test Released by Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, 4/3/2020
• UB collaborating with Roswell Park on international clinical trial for COVID-19, 4/2/2020
• AngioDynamics Receives FDA Approval to Initiate NanoKnife® DIRECT Clinical Study for the Treatment of Stage III Pancreatic Cancer, 4/1/2020
• Heart Health Intelligence Raises Funds for a Revolutionary In-Home Cardiovascular Monitoring Device, 4/1/2020
• Johnson & Johnson Announces a Lead Vaccine Candidate for COVID-19; Landmark New Partnership with U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; and Commitment to Supply One Billion Vaccines Worldwide for Emergency Pandemic Use, 3/30/2020
• Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production, 3/30/2020
• Welch Allyn owner Hillrom ramps up medical device production in fight against coronavirus, 3/25/2020
• Cornell campus community donates essential medical supplies, 3/24/2020
• Regeneron’s CEO Says We Could Have a Covid-19 Treatment ‘Quickly’, 3/17/2020
• Thermo Fisher Scientific to Produce Millions of COVID-19 Test Kits in the Next Few Weeks, 3/16/2020
• Wadsworth, Regeneron leading battle against COVID-19, 3/15/2020
• Regeneron CEO hopes to have coronavirus treatment ready for human testing possibly by this summer, 3/3/2020
• ThermoFisher to buy Qiagen for $11.5 billion, 3/3/2020
• UB launches law center for entrepreneurs, 3/2/2020
• 22 Best Rochester Medical Device Startups Revolutionising Healthcare,

Industry News

• 13 WNY-based startups have ‘graduated’ from UB’s Cultivator, with more to come next week, 9/14/2023
• Vital Transformation Study, 8/30/2023
• 21st Century Manufacturing Thriving In Buffalo, NY, 7/13/2023
• The $100 billion bet that a postindustrial US city can reinvent itself as a high-tech hub, 7/13/2023
• Two MIT Profs ID’d An Aging NY City As The Next Innovation Hub. Their Data Is Proving Right, 7/13/2023
• Empire State Development Announces First Series of Investments from the New York State Small Business Credit Initiative’s Pre-Seed and Seed Matching Fund Program, 6/30/2023
• The importance of trust in AI as a medical device, 6/15/2023
• Serial Biotech Founder Tim Springer on Investing in Startups and Democratizing Antibody Research, 5/26/2023
• Developing Sustainable Medical Devices, 5/24/2023
• $1 Million for 5% Equity: Our Application is Now Open!, 5/22/2023
• FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Use of Decentralized Clinical Trials, 5/10/2023
• Noa Conger Simons wants to grow the Albany region's startup ecosystem, 5/10/2023
• What Medtech Startups Need to Know about Remote Monitoring, 4/24/2023
• FuzeHub Announces First Round of 2023 Grant Awards to Support Innovations in Manufacturing throughout New York State, 4/19/2023
• Selecting a Resilient Medical Device Contract Manufacturer for Long-term Success, 4/12/2023
• Top Three Reasons Why Your Medical Device Needs a Clinical Trial, 4/10/2023
• Lotte to Make Cutting-Edge Cancer Drugs at New Manufacturing Center in East Syracuse, 3/28/2023
• ARPA-H Georgia Coalition (AGC) - Support Request, 3/27/2023
• Bill Would Require Medicare to Cover Breakthrough Devices for Four Years, 3/27/2023
• The Seven Deadly Mistakes of Startups, 3/23/2023
• J&J’s Ashley McEvoy named chair of AdvaMed, 3/20/2023
• Is EU MDR Harming Medical Device Innovation?, 3/6/2023
• AdvaMed Unveils Policy Priorities with Focus on Breakthrough Device Coverage, Global Market Access, 3/1/2023
• How Life Sciences Benefits From Broader Healthcare Transformation, 3/1/2023
• 3 Biotech Executives on the Year Ahead: Deals, Drug Pricing and the Down Market, 1/19/2023
• Governor Hochul Announces Launch of $30 Million Pre-seed and Seed Matching Fund Program, 1/5/2023
• 10 clinical trials to watch in the first half of 2023, 1/3/2023
• Government Spending Bill Would Tighten FDA Oversight of Accelerated Drug Approvals, 12/20/2022
• Empire State Development Announces More Than $8 Million Awarded To NYSTAR Hot Spots and Incubators Through Round XII of the Regional Economic Development Council Initiative, 12/14/2022
• Life science investment outlook: thinking beyond the pandemic, 12/12/2022
• FDA Outlines Benefits and Risks of Emerging Augmented and Virtual Reality Medical Devices, 12/8/2022
• The 10 Biggest Medtech Stories of 2022, 12/3/2022
• The 2022 Economic Development Power 100, 11/28/2022
• ‘Not New York City’ Startup Stock On The Rise, 11/22/2022
• Pharma Earnings Outline Drug Law’s Looming Impact on Sales, Development, 11/9/2022
• Micron picks Syracuse suburb for huge computer chip plant that would bring up to 9,000 jobs, 10/4/2022
• FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Computer Software Assurance for Medical Devices, 9/19/2022
• Pres. Biden Issues Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing, 9/12/2022
• Technology’s Role in Improving Clinical Trial Equity, 8/24/2022
• The Galien Foundation Announces 2022 Prix Galien USA Nominees for "Best Digital Health Solution," "Incubators, Accelerators and Equity," and "Prix Galien Startup", 8/22/2022
• Pfizer buys sickle cell drugmaker Global Blood for $5.4B, 8/8/2022
• How a small UK biotech ended up in Gilead’s hands, 8/5/2022
• Lotte to invest $77M, add jobs to expand Bristol pharma plant in East Syracuse, 7/5/2022
• Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences announces growth through acquisition of medical and life sciences facility, 7/3/2022
• With biotech in retreat, Third Rock raises $1B for life sciences investing, 6/15/2022
• What Biotech and Pharma need to consider about decentralized trials, 6/13/2022
• The Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs of 2022, 5/11/2022
• A Surprising New Tech Center Is Emerging In Upstate New York, 4/30/2022
• Two Biotechs Set Out to End Sector’s IPO Drought, 4/27/2022
• A Guide to Decentralized Biotech, 4/22/2022
• After a record run, fewer biotechs are going public. Here's how they're performing., 4/21/2022
• How To Design Medical Devices With Sustainability In Mind, 4/20/2022
• New York State Workforce Innovation Awards, 3/16/2022
• The UK Ventilator Challenge: Achieving the Impossible, 3/7/2022
• Empire State Development Announces Precision Optical Transceivers Expands Manufacturing Operations in Monroe County, 2/8/2022
• With new trial, Pfizer and BioNTech will test whether an omicron vaccine is needed, 1/25/2022
• FDA postpones some inspectional activities amid omicron surge, 1/7/2022
• 5 FDA approval decisions to watch in the first quarter, 1/5/2022
• FDA adds another drug OK to cap a record win list for 2021, 12/31/2021
• The top 5 medtech news stories of 2021, 12/29/2021
• FDA issues draft guidance for transitioning medical devices granted EUAs during pandemic, 12/22/2021
• Medtech’s biggest personnel changes in 2021, 12/17/2021
• Lilly drug becomes first COVID antibody cleared for use in young children, 12/6/2021
• HHS reports 63-fold increase in telehealth use during pandemic, 12/3/2021
• As Omicron spread looms, oral antivirals appear to be one of the best defenses — now we just need more, 12/2/2021
• COVID-19 test makers say their products also detect Omicron, 11/30/2021
• FDA panel, after debate, narrowly backs Merck COVID pill, 11/30/2021
• Pfizer and Moderna keeping a close watch on Omicron COVID-19 variant, 11/29/2021
• Biden admin investing $1.5B to quell healthcare staffing shortages, promote workforce equity, 11/24/2021
• An even larger medtech supply chain shock looms beyond the pandemic, 11/9/2021
• GE Healthcare to become stand-alone company in 2023, 11/9/2021
• World faces a shortage of up to 2 billion COVID-19 vaccine syringes, 11/9/2021
• Pfizer pill for COVID-19 shows dramatic benefit in major study finding, 11/5/2021
• A play-by-play of the FDA's meeting on Pfizer's vaccine for kids, 10/26/2021
• How China turned the tables on biopharma's global dealmaking, 10/26/2021
• HHS, DOD invest more than $562M to increase COVID-19 test manufacturing, 10/22/2021
• Booster bonanza: FDA endorses 'mix-and-match' scheme, and Moderna and J&J too, 10/21/2021
• Why FDA optimized for flexibility with COVID-19 vaccine booster choice, 10/21/2021
• Biogen's Alzheimer's drug is struggling, and a turnaround might not be coming soon, 10/20/2021
• Diversity in medtech: Just 21% of executive roles are held by women, 10/20/2021
• Atea, Roche change plans for oral COVID-19 drug after trial setback, 10/19/2021
• J&J foresees end to not-for-profit sales of coronavirus vaccine, 10/19/2021
• The European Union has become a leading COVID-19 vaccine exporter , 10/18/2021
• Four questions with AdvaMed’s Jen Brearey, 10/13/2021
• Acceleron provides biggest biopharma deal this year, with $11.5B sale to Merck, 9/30/2021
• After long wait, Editas reveals first data for CRISPR gene editing treatment, 9/29/2021
• Eisai, Biogen to test FDA by asking for approval of second Alzheimer's drug, 9/28/2021
• Gottlieb: Delta wave could burn out by Thanksgiving, 9/27/2021
• Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson warn of hospital worker burnout headwind, 9/17/2021
• Online vision test apps focus debate over doctor replacement, 9/3/2021
• 18 countries have vaccinated a greater share of residents than U.S., 8/26/2021
• New CDC studies point to waning immunity from vaccines, 8/24/2021
• FDA approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, 8/23/2021
• US to offer coronavirus boosters to all Americans in aggressive plan to counter delta's spread, 8/18/2021
• US FDA medical device user fees see modest 2.5% increase for 2022, 8/10/2021
• GE Healthcare, Baxter among medtech giants inking deals with Amazon Web Services, 8/9/2021
• The HERO Act, 6/29/2021
• Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines appear to have a durable immune response, 6/28/2021
• Medtech gets behind breakthrough device law for seniors, 6/24/2021
• 8 key clinical trials to watch for the rest of 2021, 6/21/2021
• Contract manufacturers fuel medtech expansion in Costa Rica, 6/18/2021
• 75M vaccine doses wasted: FDA spells out Emergent facility deficiencies at length in new memo, 6/14/2021
• Addressing Demographic Disparities in Clinical Trials, 6/11/2021
• 'The lights are no longer green': Antitrust regulators reassess pharma deals, 6/10/2021
• The FDA approved Biogen's Alzheimer's drug. The company now has years to confirm it works., 6/9/2021
• A first-of-its-kind Alzheimer's drug raises heavy questions around who will and won't get it, 6/8/2021
• FDA OKs aducanumab for Alzheimer's, turning controversial Biogen drug into a megablockbuster, 6/7/2021
• CVS splashes into clinical trial services, leaning on local roots to change the game in terms of patient engagement, 5/21/2021
• Google set to launch its first medical device, 5/19/2021
• Annual COVID-19 vaccines likely, according to Pfizer CEO, 4/15/2021
• José Baselga, acclaimed drug hunter, physician and AstraZeneca's pioneering cancer R&D chief, has died, 3/21/2021
• U.S. government classifies threat levels of SARS-CoV-2 variants, 3/19/2021
• Record funding flowed into cell, gene therapy companies last year, 3/16/2021
• FuzeHub’s Garuc Named to National, Statewide Manufacturing and Economic Development Boards, 3/1/2021
• Merck to buy autoimmune drugmaker for $2B, 2/25/2021
• Moderna, Pfizer ready multi-pronged plans for coronavirus variants, 2/25/2021
• Abiomed CEO Michael Minogue appointed as AdvaMed chairperson, 2/23/2021
• FDA lays out shortened path for testing vaccines against new coronavirus variants, 2/22/2021
• Obama admin alum Chiquita Brooks-LaSure tapped to head CMS, 2/18/2021
• Feds to spend $1.6B to expand COVID testing, domestic manufacturing, 2/17/2021
• DePuy Synthes Receives 510(k) FDA Clearance for VELYS™ Robotic-Assisted Solution Designed for Use with the ATTUNE® Total Knee System, 1/19/2021
• Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan joint healthcare venture is ending, 1/4/2021
• What a Biden administration could mean for the pharma industry, 11/13/2020
• 3 ways Biden's COVID-19 approach could impact medtech, 11/12/2020
• How major medtech companies are responding to the looming EU MDR, 11/10/2020
• How does HIPAA affect medical devices?, 11/9/2020
• Joe Biden’s plan for COVID-19 and how the industry is reacting, 11/9/2020
• Coronavirus in NYS: What You Need to Know, 9/13/2020
• SUNY dedicates $100,000 to program to advance production of PPE, 8/31/2020
• FDA approves first saliva-based coronavirus test, 4/14/2020
• AdvaMed touts use of noninvasive ventilators to treat COVID-19, 4/9/2020
• AdvaMed: Invoking Defense Production Act could hinder U.S. medtech imports, 3/27/2020
• FDA lets states approve COVID-19 tests, 3/18/2020
• COVID-19 investigational vaccine clinical trial underway, 3/17/2020
• President Trump signs $8.3b coronavirus emergency funding bill, 3/6/2020
• Facebook has a prescription: More pharmaceutical ads, 3/4/2020
• How to prepare your medical device company for an exit, 3/3/2020
• Report: FDA promise of 1 million coronavirus tests this week unattainable, 3/3/2020