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We sat down with MATTER member Jen Horonjeff to learn how the company she founded, Savvy Cooperative, helps healthcare innovators build better solutions faster by elevating a diversity of patient perspectives.
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In September, we are exploring what health equity means from the perspective of our community. Read the full blog post.
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Chicago’s life sciences ecosystem is taking off: In the first half of this year, AveXis sold for $8.7 billion, the largest acquisition of a Chicago-area biotechnology company to date. Iterum Therapeutics, Xeris Pharmaceuticals and Aptinyx all went public, as did Exicure (whose CEO, David Giljohann, will be at MATTER in October for Tales from the Trenches). Between 2013 and 2017, 44% of funding …
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Decisions made in Washington can have profound effects on our healthcare system — everything from biomedical research, to insurance and the delivery of care, to the factors that help shape overall health and wellbeing.
In advance of the 2018 midterm elections, MATTER, the Health Care Council of Chicago (HC3) and the Illinois Biotechnology Innovation Organization (iBIO) extended invitations to …
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There are well-documented differences in health outcomes between racial, ethnic, geographic, socioeconomic and other groups. A growing number of startups and organizations in our community have voiced concerns about these health disparities and are actively advancing “health equity,” which the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation defines as follows:
“Health equity means that everyone has a fair and …
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We sat down with Ashish Shah, CEO of PreparedHealth, to talk about the company’s mission, his vision for the future and the personal experience that led him to found PreparedHealth.
Learn more about PreparedHealth.
In August, we are featuring MATTER companies that are reimagining what aging can look like — and building the technology to make that vision a reality. Read the full blog post.
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