Financial

BioAdvance Announces ~$7M in Recent Investments and Leadership Transition

Barbara Schilberg retiring as Managing Director and CEO; Shahram Hejazi, Ph.D., appointed as Managing Director and CEO PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BioAdvance, a $70 million early-stage life sciences fund with a focus in the mid-Atlantic region, announced today that it has added six new companies to its portfolio in the last 18 months and […]

Merck to Acquire Acceleron Pharma Inc.

Acquisition Complements and Strengthens Merck’s Cardiovascular Pipeline Sotatercept is a Potentially First-In-Class Therapy in Phase 3 Development for the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension REBLOZYL® (luspatercept-aamt) is a First-In-Class Erythroid Maturation Recombinant Fusion Protein Approved for the Treatment of Anemia in Certain Rare Blood Disorders Merck to Host Investor Call at […]

UPDATED: CARDIOGENICS HOLDINGS INC. ANNOUNCES A RECORD DATE CHANGE FOR ITS DIVIDEND DISTRIBUTION

Caledon, Ontario, Sept. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CardioGenics Holdings INC. (OTC PINK: CGNH) announced on September 3, 2021 a record date of September 13, 2021 for its dividend distribution of 22.5 million shares of Covidgenic, a private Canadian company. The new record date for the distribution of the Covidgenic […]

Cleerly Expands Executive Team With Appointment of New Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer

Brandon Atkinson joins as COO and Nick Nieslanik as CTO to Support Company’s Mission to Create a New Standard of Care for Heart Disease, the Leading Cause of Death. NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cleerly, the company creating a new standard of care for heart disease, announced today it has appointed Brandon Atkinson […]

AstraZeneca Healthcare Foundation Awards Seven US Nonprofits More Than $900k to Improve Heart Health and Advance Health Equity

WILMINGTON, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today on World Heart Day, the AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation has awarded seven innovative, community-based nonprofit organizations $954,311 in grants across seven US states to address cardiovascular disease, a leading cause of death in the nation. The grants are part of the Foundation’s signature Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM (CCH) Next Generation program, now in […]

Vascular Quality Initiative and Symmetric Health Solutions Partner to Improve Medical Device Identification Accuracy

Organizations will work together to eliminate variances and data discrepancies and ensure hospitals meet FDA reporting requirements CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Society for Vascular Surgery® Vascular Quality Initiative® (SVS VQI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving vascular quality within hospitals and outpatient facilities, today announced its partnership with Symmetric Health Solutions, for the purpose of […]

Open Stent Solution closes €2.5M Seed financing round for its breakthrough open-stent TMVR device

AMIENS, France, Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Open Stent Solution (OSS), a medtech start-up company developing the first open-stent heart valves, today announced the closing of a €2.5 million Seed financing round. The funding will support the development of its ribbon-shaped stented mitral valve for transcatheter replacement. OSS’ breakthrough device is the first-ever […]

BioSig Selects Plexus Corp. as its Manufacturing Partner

Global leader in complex product design, supply chain, manufacturing, and aftermarket services to support the Company’s growth Westport, CT, Sept. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BioSig Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSGM) (“BioSig” or the “Company”), a medical technology company commercializing an innovative biomedical signal processing platform designed to improve signal fidelity […]