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Millendo Raises $62M to Bring Women’s Health Therapeutics to Market

1/15/2016
In January 2016, University of Michigan startup Millendo Therapeutics announced that it had raised $62 million in Series B investment. In addition, the company, which was previously know as Atterocor, announced that they had endeared into an exclusive license agreement with AstraZeneca for the worldwide development and commercialization rights to...

SenSigma: Smart Optical Monitoring Systems

1/15/2016
Defect formation is a highly problematic part of the manufacturing process. Every year, faulty products cause billions of dollars in material costs and production delays. U-M Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Professor Jyoti Mazumder first became interested in online detection of defects for car body fabrication more than 12 years...

Amway’s Artistry Intensive Skincare Anti-Wrinkle Firming Serum

1/15/2016
Amway Corporation, based in Ada, Michigan, is a multinational company selling products primarily in the health and beauty markets. In 2011, Amway Corporation introduced Artistry Intensive Skincare Anti-Wrinkle Firming Serum, a vitamin A-containing product proven to reduce wrinkles and other signs of aging with fewer unpleasant side effects. The basis...

Reprogramming Brain Circuits to Alleviate the Symptoms of Tinnitus

1/15/2016
An innovative treatment for a common hearing disorder… For the nearly 50 million Americans who suffer from the hearing condition tinnitus, every moment of every day is filled with unwanted noise. Whether it manifests as ringing, hissing, humming or buzzing, that non-stop sound can be disruptive and even debilitating. U-M...

Technology for the Athlete’s Toolbox: Motion Tracking for Improved Performance

1/15/2016
Fourteen years ago, Professor Noel Perkins had no idea that his love of fly fishing would result in a transformative technology for sports training. At the time, he had just one goal: improve his fly casting. Frustrated with books and videos, he attached an angular-rate gyroscope to the grip of...

Changing the Future of Mobility: Advanced Transportation Innovation

1/15/2016
Research partnerships and innovations from the University of Michigan and our industry partners are creating exciting advances in automobile and other forms of transportation. U-M researchers are key contributors in many areas, including electrification technologies, digital solutions (connected vehicles and mobility), advanced materials (safety and improved fuel economy) and energy...

Menin-MLL Inhibitors: A Potential Treatment for a Rare and Deadly Leukemia

1/15/2016
Oncology researchers Jolanta Grembecka and Tomasz Cierpicki began what they refer to as their “adventures in drug discovery” at the University of Virginia, where they focused on treatments for leukemia-related diseases. Their ultimate goal has always been to create new small molecules for protein targets neglected by industry—what are known...

The Neuroma Surgical Tool: Advancing Treatments for Amputees

1/13/2016
Each year, approximately 185,000 amputations are performed in this country. One of the biggest challenges facing amputees is constant, severe pain caused by neuromas—balls of raw nerve fiber that grow at the end of severed nerves. Research conducted by U-M Professor of Plastic Surgery Paul Cederna demonstrated that this pain...

GENOMENON: Empowering Personalized Medicine

1/13/2016
Genome sequencing has revolutionized the health care field, opening the way to a new era of personalized medicine. It is now possible to sequence the entire human genome—all 3 billion letters of information— in about a day. But analyzing and interpreting the data is a slow, error-prone process that can...

U-M cybersecurity startup QuadMetrics calculates odds a company will be breached

1/12/2016
QuadMetrics Inc. says it can predict with greater than 90% accuracy the likelihood that a company will be breached within the next year…

J&J announces collaboration with U-M startup HistoSonics for non-invasive solid tumor treatment

1/11/2016
Although surgical resection remains the gold standard treatment for solid tumors, approximately 85 percent of patients are not candidates for surgical resection, particularly those with cancers of the liver and pancreas. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. has entered into a collaboration with HistoSonics, a company developing histotripsy, a non-invasive soft tissue ablation...

Rapid Oxygen seeks to bring new emergency oxygen system to market

1/11/2016
Rapid Oxygen Company wants to breathe fresh air into the stale medical oxygen systems market using technology from the University of Michigan Department of Emergency Medicine. Current supplemental oxygen systems use portable concentrators, high pressure gas cylinders, or chemical generators – technology largely unchanged since the 1940s. These “state-of-the-art” systems...