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MedTech News
- 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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- Member Spotlight: Compliance Team, Inc. , 8/24/2020
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- Propelling New York Forward, 5/11/2020
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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