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“Advocating for healthy and happy scientists”
HappiLabs wants to bolster the happiness index for scientists.
The startup company, launched in 2013, is a virtual lab manager and personal shopper. Scientists are burdened and distracted from their innovative work because their expertise does not extend to addressing pricing disparities and purchasing laboratory equipment. HappiLabs takes on th…
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press release
100 Investors Expected to Attend the Midwest University HealthTech Showcase, co-developed with Indiana University
Inventors of 50 promising new healthcare technologies from nine midwestern universities will connect with 100 investors and industry executives tonight at the Midwest University HealthTech Showcase at MATTER. The showcase, sponsored by MB Real Estate, is being held in conjunction w…
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press release
Dozens of healthcare technology startups from nine of the top research universities in the Midwest will showcase their inventions in front of investors Monday night at MATTER.
The Midwest University HealthTech Showcase will bring around 100 investors and industry professionals to the Merchandise Mart to check out new healthcare technologies from 50 early-stage companies based out of nine Midwe…
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press release
Cardiac resuscitation specialist Dr. Dana Edelson says she’d like to help data analytics do for healthcare what it’s done for baseball.
“We task clinicians to interpret vast amounts of data in less amounts of time,” Edelson said at last week’s kickoff event opening the Matter health information technology startup company incubator in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart.
Edelson, an assistant professor…
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The official opening of the Matter healthtech incubator drew a crowd — and a group of speakers so large that Mayor Rahm Emanuel joked he was being pushed offstage.
More than 150 people attended Friday’s event, and speakers included Emanuel, Gov. Bruce Rauner, Sen. Dick Durbin and healthcare-industry leaders such as Marathon Pharmaceuticals’ Jeff Aronin and Horizon Pharma’s Timothy Walbert. Ame…
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