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When Smit Naik graduated from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, he knew he wanted to use his new skill sets to bring something life-changing to market. He met Professor David Mohr at Northwestern’s Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, and made it his mission to help bring the professor’s research out of the university and into the hands of patients and providers.
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Last November, Sangamo Therapeutics made medical history by treating the first patient with an in vivo genome-editing therapeutic delivered intravenously to “edit” cells within the patient’s body. In a recent talk at MATTER, Sangamo CEO Sandy Macrae discussed how the company’s zinc finger technology for gene editing will fundamentally change how we care for patients and treat disease. Watch the…
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May is Mental Health Month! As part of this national conversation, we’re spending the month highlighting MATTER startups who are closing care gaps, fighting stigma and empowering patients to take an active role in their mental health.
Keith Wakeman, CEO of SuperBetter
What is the problem you’re trying to solve? Digital health tools hold incredible promise to improve mental health outcomes by…
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ClostraBio is harnessing the protective ability of the microbiome to advance care and improve lives for people with food allergies.
The team has developed a first-of-its kind treatment that utilizes a common class of gut bacteria to act as a barrier, preventing trigger foods from entering the bloodstream and sparking an allergic reaction.
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On May 3, MATTER, the University of Illinois at Chicago, SAP and Advanced Clinical hosted Chicago’s first Blockchain in Healthcare Summit. This sold-out event brought together experts from industry and academia to discuss the potential of blockchain technology to improve clinical outcomes, map the patient journey, advance public health goals and more.
During the summit, we caught up with sever…
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