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MATTER, the healthcare technology incubator, today announced a collaboration with Abbott, the global healthcare company, to support healthcare innovation. The two companies will work together to accelerate the development of new technologies that improve health and healthcare. Abbott joins as one of eight platinum-level partners from across the healthcare industry.

Abbott will work with MATTER…

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Abbott, one of Chicago’s biggest healthcare companies, has signed on as a top-level partner of Matter, the health-technology incubator at the Merchandise Mart.

Abbott is a platinum-level sponsor, alongside seven other healthcare heavyweights, such as AbbVie, Astellas, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois, Takeda and others.

“It’s one of the biggest healthcare brand names in Chicago,” sa…

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Hal Barron of Calico at MATTER

Hal Barron, president of research and development for Calico, began his presentation Monday with a discussion of Calico’s lofty mission: to “increase understanding of the biology that controls lifespan.” While this goal seems grandiose, Barron takes a reasoned approach, encouraging analysis on a long timeline, rather than looking for quick-hitting, short-term w…

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iBIO Institute’s PROPEL and MATTER to also increase collaboration to accelerate healthcare innovation

Health technology incubator MATTER, Chicago Innovation Mentors (CIM) and the PROPEL Center of the iBIO Institute announced today that CIM will become a part of MATTER, bringing the 5-year-old mentoring program under the umbrella of MATTER, which opened in February to help accelerate entreprene…

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AMA Interaction Studio at MATTER opens to enhance collaboration, expand connections with entrepreneurs and physicians nationwide

The American Medical Association (AMA) partnership with MATTER reached a new phase today to enhance support for startup companies seeking to have a transformational impact on health and medicine. This milestone was marked as the newly installed AMA Interaction Studio…

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