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If You Can’t Join ‘Em, Beat ‘Em: How Rob Butler Built Maestro Health his Way

December 5, 2016

Rob Butler wanted to be a baseball player. He played in college and then semi-professionally, but didn’t quite make it to the big leagues. He did, however, make it to the big leagues of entrepreneurship – having built and sold Payflex and MBI before starting Maestro Health in 2014. Rob was at MATTER recently for an interview with MATTER CEO Steven Collens as part of our Tales from the Trenches …

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rMark Bio Personalizes Academic and Clinical Partnership Research

November 16, 2016

The platform uses artificial intelligence to recommend key opinion leaders that align with users’ strategic business interests.

Academic and clinical partnerships are critical for pharmaceutical companies developing new products. It’s not hard to identify the handful of top opinion leaders in any given therapeutic area, but, until now, finding the bulk of the physicians and scientists workin…

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Keeping the Fire: Tim Walbert on Maintaining Company Culture Through Massive Growth

November 7, 2016

Tim Walbert thrives on growth. As a serial entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry, he’s spent his career helping brands and companies grow. When Tim was named Horizon Pharma’s chairman, president, and chief executive officer in 2008 it was little more than a solo operation, and he worked mostly from coffee shops, taking advantage of the free wi-fi and parking. Fast forward to present day, …

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Senator Kirk and Governor Romney Visit MATTER, Support Innovation in Healthcare

October 20, 2016

U.S. Senator Mark Kirk and former governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney today toured healthcare technology incubator MATTER to discuss the future of healthcare with entrepreneurs and innovators.

Located in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, MATTER is a community of healthcare startups and industry leaders working together to fuel innovation in health IT, medical devices, diagnostics, and …

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Kate Wolin’s Company ScaleDown Aims to Make Weight Loss a Habit

October 20, 2016

A scale and a smartphone are all it takes.

More than 70 percent of Americans are overweight, according to the CDC, and almost everyone who is overweight expresses a desire to lose weight. Yet few achieve their goals, and even fewer maintain their ideal weight. This problem has been a focus of Dr. Kate Wolin’s – a Harvard-trained scientist with deep expertise in behavior change – for more tha…

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