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Every day, innovators across the MATTER community are building new solutions that accelerate innovation, advance care and improve lives. Here’s a look into the most noteworthy headlines from the past few weeks.
Endotronix takes patient trials to Europe
Endotronix, a medical technology company working to advance the treatment of heart failure through proactive management tools, enrolled its fi…
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MATTER will produce the Startup Showcase at RSNA 2019, bringing startup companies to the world’s largest radiology conference
Chicago, IL — MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, today announced a partnership with the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), a non-profit organization that promotes excellence in patient care and healthcare delivery through education, …
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Does intellectual property affect your startup?
According to Morgan Kirley — an intellectual property and privacy lawyer at Polsinelli and MATTER mentor — intellectual property law affects some component of every company.
We sat down with Morgan to discuss the basics that every startup needs to know.
Interested in hearing from more Polsinelli lawyers? Check back next month to hear from Lis…
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In this monthly blog post, members of the MATTER team highlight articles from across the web, and the occasional book or two, that cover some of the most relevant business and healthcare topics today.
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic, Sam Quinones
“The U.S. life expectancy has decreased for the past three years in a row, the first time since the Spanish flu a century a…
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As CEO of gene therapy pioneer AveXis, Sean Nolan helped shatter the record for Chicago-area biotech acquisitions — three times over — when he facilitated the 2018 sale of the company to Novartis for almost $9 billion. In his time at AveXis, Sean grew the team to more than 400 people, took the company public and quintupled its stock value. Sean’s journey in healthcare, however, began all the wa…
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