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ELabNYC in the News

[8.16.19] - Seth Goodman's venture, SiteRx, has been selected along with three other ventures to receive $225,000 from the Eugene Lang Fund.

[6.3.19] - Frank Minella's ELabNYC '15 venture PainQx completes $1.65 million equity financing and wins NIDA grant for studies in objective pain measurement

[5.13.19] - Ichor Biologics awarded NIH grant of $300k

[4.13.19] - Boubouton is featured on Glu, a website dedicated to connecting individuals with type 1 diabetes with new information and technology

[4.8.19] - Capcell Biologics won $10k at the Technology Challenge at the Columbia Venture Competition

[4.1.19] - W. Vallen Graham, ELavNYC '14 new approach to treating gastrointestinal disease fixes leaky intestines

[1.15.19] - Bioharmony announces collaborative research and licensing agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim

[12.21.18] - ELabNYC Announces 2019 Cohort

[12.15.18] - ELabNYC Mentor, John Hosier, elected co-chairman of the MSDM Advisory Board at Fairleigh Dickinson University

[12.14.18] - Yiviva Co-Founders, Yung-Chi Cheng & Shwu-Huey Liu, featured in National Geographic Magazine’s January 2019 issue

[11.9.18] - Bonbouton wins $50K at second annual FuzeHub innovation competition

[11.1.18] - Menopal win $25,000 prize at the Nestle Skin Health SHIELD International Pitch Competition 

[10.23.18] - Jen Horonjeff named among "The 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs in 2018"

[9.23.18] - Yesse Technologies closes $3.3 million seed round to digitize the sense of smell

[9.5.18] - Liquid X and Bonbouton form Agreement to Collaborate on Creating Advanced Textile-Based Sensors

[9.5.18] - Bonbouton, Liquid X join forces to develop sensor-enabled textiles

[9.1.18] - Synthis was awarded SBIR grant for their work on the reversal of immune suppression on melanoma patients

[8.21.18] - Selin Kurnaz's ELabNYC '17 venture, Massive Bio partners with Biden Cancer Initiative to improve access to oncology clinical trials

[8.5.18] - Optologix CEO invited to speak at UTEP Research Symposium

[7.27.18] - Fast Company: This co-op lets patients monetize their own health data

[7.27.18] - Savvy Featured in Fast Company

[7.25.18] - Gabi Grunig ELabNYC '16, published her article on circulating microRNA markers for pulmonary hypertension in supervised exercise intervention and nightly oxygen intervention

[7.23.18] - Six Degrees chosen by AvantiGas for international multi cloud platform

[7.19.18] - Chandra Ghose has been selected to be a part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network as a Fellow of the Aspen Institute's fourth class of Health Innovators Fellows

[6.21.18] - Bonbouton Wins “Best In Show” at 1st Pitch Life Science Competition

[6.8.18] - ARL Designs is awarded patent for superhydrophobic technology

[5.20.18] - Veripad partners with project helping hands

[5.20.18] - Dr. Zhang's invention presented at New York Life Sciences Innovation Showcase

[5.16.18] - Vitrisa Therapeutics Acquires Rights to MAKO Clinical Trial Data in wAMD

[5.14.18] - Centro Diabetes Puerto Rico (CDPR) has announced a partnership with CareSpeak Communications to bring the DiabeText program to its patients in Puerto Rico

[5.2.18] - DeMorgen: You can smell if you are sick - and we know that thanks to a Flemish scientist

[Spring 18] - Six Degrees has been shortlisted in the Multi-Channel Solution of the Year category at the Retail System Awards 2018, with Grafton Group plc

[Spring 18] - Yale Startup Yiviva Wins Innovation Award at the US-China Health Summit

[4.30.18] - vrt NWS: Belgian scientist develops a digital nose that has to map all the scents of the planet

[4.27.18] - Foundation Fighting Blindness and Vitrisa Therapeutics Collaborate in Developing Innovative Clinical Trial Designs for Stargardt Disease Treatments

[4.26.18] - Prakrit Jena one of three ventures at First Pitch

[4.19.18] - Oculogica Receives Luis Villalobos Award for Innovation

[4.19.18] - Affirm expands offering to cover smaller purchases with simple, transparent payments

[4.18.18] - MyReleaf chosen by Globes in honor of Israeli Independence Day

[4.8.18] - CatheCare Wins 5th Place at Rice University Business Plan Competition

[3.23.18] - CTSC TL1 Alumna Paige Yellen Builds ABC Life Sciences with ELabNYC

[3.21. 18] - Smart Fabric Technology for Practical Digital Health Applications

[3.15.18] - Healthcare finalist Bioharmony Therapeutics pitches at the 2017 Hellow Tomorrow Challenge Finals in Paris

[1.26.18] - Startup NY 2: Biotech Firms to Locate at Farmingdale State

[12.3.17] - Tezcat Named NYU Technology Venture Competition Quarterfinalist

[11.13.17] - New Zealand Innovation Awards: Innovation Excellence in Research, Avalia Immunotherapies

[10.17.17] - HISTOWIZ WINS THE CREATE@ALIBABACLOUD GLOBAL STARTUP CONTEST

[10.17.17] - Massive Bio Article in Annals of Oncology was Ranked at Top 7%

[10.11.17] - Chemitope Glycopeptide Among Brooklyn Startup Funding Increases for Third Consecutive Quarter

[10.10.17] - Global Lyme Alliance Partners with Ionica Sciences to Develop News Lyme Disease Diagnostic Test

[10.2.17] - How The CEO of Addicaid is Using Artificial Intelligence to Fight Addiction

[9.21.17] - Landos Biopharma Raises $10M in Series A Financing

[9.15.17] - CareSpeak Communications Achieves HITRUST CSF Certifcation for Information Security, Privacy and Compliance

[9.8.17] - Mid Atlantic Bio Angels Invests in PainQx

[Sept. 17] - InVivo Analytics to release InVivoAX cloud-based software

[8.10.17] - BioHealthWays Fighting Preventable Blindness Press Release

[7.28.17] - Mousensor Technology Covered by Science Magazine

[7.23.17] - The Guardian and IEEE Spectrum Feature Ardent Cell Technologies

[7.18.17] - EurekAlert!: Technology from a Mount Sinai startup wins NYC Life Science Innovation Showcase

[7.12.17] - NYU Launching Student Entrepreneurs Startup Success Stories

[7.11.17] - NYGC Researchers Spin Out New Company With $1M Funding

[6.7.18] - MySmileBuddy at 2018 Columbia Biomedical Technology Accelerator Awards

[Spring 17] - Conquering the Need for Space in NYC's Biotech Ecosystem

[Spring 17] - BioLabs@NYULangone Coworking Space for Life Sciences is Open for Business in Hudson Square with Four High-Potential Startups Already in Residence

[12.14.16] - Girihlet Featured: New York Life Sciences Industry Gets $500 million Boost

[10.21.16] - Riverside Research Provides Key Ultrasound Equipment to Sonify Biosciecnes to Study Treatment of Melanoma

[4.16.16] - Taithera, Inc and the University of Rochester Announce Deal to Commercialize Bone-Targeted Therapeutic Agent

[1.1.16] - Ny.TmT was awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research Grant for the R&D of ArthriC by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH).

[12.15.15] - Addicts Have a new App to Help Them Stay Sober through Addicaid

[11.11.15] - Video: Interview w Matthew Borgatti of Super-Releaser

[5.1.15] - NYU Teams Win $200k in Stern's 2014-2015 Entrepreneurs Challenge

[3.29.15] - ISM Feature in The Durango Herald

[3.5.15] - Symbiotic Health Wins Best in Show at 1st Pitch Life Science Competition

[1.7.15] - Quikiks wins Innovation Award at 2015 International CES

[1.6.15] - Immunovent Wins Best of the Best in Year End 1st Pitch Life Science Competition

[11.6.14] - Innovation Hub Business Opportunities to Success Summit

[9.12.14] - Uzma Samadani spoke at TEDMED in the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.

[8.19.14] - Jibon Health secures $250K ICDDR,B, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, UKAid, CanadaAID, grant recognized

[8.7.14] - ASCRS EyeWorld interviewed Dr. Samadani at the Women in Ophthalmology meeting

[Summer 14] - Ly Vu (FlexTraPower) named Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) fellow

[6.24.14] - Ly Vu (FlexTraPower) Awarded the Damon Runyon Sohn Conference Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Fellows Award

[6.3.2014] - Einstein Founder Co-authors "Control of Obesity and Glucose Intolerance" Journal Publication

[4.16.14] – Oculogica awarded $250,000 grant from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute

[Spring 14] - Zeynep Direli Korkut (VivoZ Biolabs LLC, formerly BioZAP), Co Founder and member of Dr. Sihong Wang’s lab receives inaugural award from Pershing Sq Foundation

[March 14] - Vallen Graham (Rockefeller University) awarded Robertson Therapeutic Development Fund support

[1.28.14] - Uzma Samadani's (Oculogica) concussion research may make next year's Super Bowl much safer

[1.10.14] - CCNY Biomedical Engineers Receive Entrepreneurial Training

[12.12.13] - ELabNYC Co-Hosts Inaugural Nature Biotechnology New York SciCafé

[12.12.13] - Quikiks Gears Up for First Production Run of Hands-Free Shoes

[12.6.13] - A Lifescience Hub Grows in New York: 3 Ways the City is Stimulating Healthcare Investing Tirgan Biopharma Named

[12.3.13] - Ekaterina Dadachova (Radcure/Einstein) awarded follow on funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for RIT (Radio Immuno Therapy) to cure AIDS

[11.26.13] - ImmunoVent and In Vivo Move to NYC Incubator

[11.21.13] - NYCEDC Announces ELabNYC

[8.15.13] - DrinkSavvy: How Your Straw Could Help You Stay Safe

[5.16.13] - David Feldman on the Value of ELab

ELab Advisors in the News

[5.16.18] - TARA Biosystems Appoints Donna See as Chief Business Officer to Drive Expansion of Commercial Operations

[8.15.16] - Stephen Goodman (Pryor Cashman) named one of the best lawyers in America

[1.26.14] - Biotech Firm Targets City for Shmeat Market

ABCT In The News

[9.29.22] - Founder-focused Accelerator for Biosciences in Connecticut, ABCT, Announces Newest Community Supporter

[2.4.19] - Hartford Business Journal interviews Mary Howard, Program Manager

[12.17.18] - ABCT Announces 2019 Cohort

[9.27.18] - Connecticut Innovations CEO, Matthew McCooe, gives a shoutout to ABCT

[Summer 18] - Doing Business in CT 2018 Magazine: A Hand Up, Accelerator for Biosciences in Connecticut offers startups early-stage assistance

[2.2.18] - The Accelerator for Biosciences in Connecticut (ABCT) Announces 2018 Cohort of Life Science Startups

[1.30.18] - Jamie Cosgrove and Todd Arnold speak at the ABCT Orientation

[11.22.17] - CTNext announces Design Technologies partnership 

ABCT Companies in the News

[7.1.19] - Shoreline Biome announces E-Commerce website for Microbiome Researchers

[5.23.19] - Jeremy Wiygul, ABCT '19 took second place at the Weill Cornell Medicine Biomedical Business Plan Challenge

[5.9.19] - Choukri Ben Mamoun, ABCT '19 and John Deacon '18 won big at Yale Innovation Summit

[4.29.19] - LifestyleCX has partnered with Enquire CRM

[4.26.19] - LifestyleCX has partnered with Pegasus Senior Living

[3.1.19] - Choukri Ben Mamoun, ABCT '19 gave a lecture to the Lyme Disease Association

[2.4.19] - Hartford Business Journal Features Caroline Dealy, DeMay Bio

[1.16.19] - Vesselon was featured on Focused Ultrasound Foundation for their work

[12.12.18] - John Deacon wins 'Best Presentation' at Yale Pitch Fest 2018

[12.4.18] - Lambda Vision experiment gets launched into space

[11.7.18] - OrthoMedex announces the issuance of its 3rd USPTO Patent

[8.21.18] - Dr. Wagner accepts an SBIR/STTR Recognition Award

[7.31.18] - Dr. Jordan Greco receives a Fight for Sight 2018 Grant-In-Aid award

[7.25.18] - LambdaVision Strengthens Its Board of Directors Following Series A Investment from Connecticut Innovations

[7.16.18] - North Haven Receives SOLaware™ Sun Safety Education System at Middle School Athletic Fields

[7.16.18] - The SOLaware™ Display returns to Wallingford’s Community Pool

[7.14.18] - WTNH: Solar display shows how long it would take to get a sunburn

[7.13.18] - NBC CT Features SolAware Technologies

[7.13.18] - Middletown City Parks Get New Sun Safety Displays: Digital Technology Raises Sun Exposure Awareness

[7.4.18] - Darienite: Displays Showing Real-Time Dangers of Sun Exposure Installed at Town Beaches

[7.3.18] - My Record Journal: QU grads bring sun safety technology to North Haven, Wallingford

[7.2.18] - Darien Patch: The device by SOLaware Technologies is the first installed in Connecticut

[6.28.18] - Hartford Magazine: LambdaVision: 10 Great Biotech Advances p.58

[4.27.18] - Dr. Leslie Gold has received the 2018 'Excellence in Translational Regenerative Science' Award by the Wound Healing Society (WHS)

[4.16.18] - Mahmoud Morshedy won the top prize at the University of Bridgeport's Business Plan Competition

[3.21.18] - NBC CT’s segment on UConn’s Technology Incubation Program (TIP) featuring LambdaVision

[2.21.18] - Qi Zhao ABCT '19 publishes his article in Cell Research

[2.14.18] - Shoreline Biome lands $1.1M equity investment

[1.23.18] - The Future of Almost Everything: The Blind Shall See - Nicole Wagner

[12.27.17] - Connecticut Magazine: Farmington Company's Quest to Cure Blindness Set to Launch into Orbit

[11.13.17] - OrthoMedex LLC Announces the Formation of OrthoMedex GmbH

[10.25.17] - OrthoMedex LLC Presents at OktoberINVESTfest 2017

[1.9.17] - AlloMek Among Global Oncology Startups Report 2017: Top 500 Cancer Drug Developers

[10.1.11] - Navigator Life Science Advisory to assist Calregen

THE NEXT MILESTONE IN THE NEWS

[7.12.19] - Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals announced the filing of new patents for methods to transplant bone marrow and treat blood cancers

[7.9.19] - InTouch Health announced a collaboration with GE Healthcare

[5.7.19] - Nina Tandon, co-founder of Epibone was featured in Newsweek

[1.14.19] - Aquaneers was awarded an SBIR grant

[9.18.18] - Mirimus was awarded an SBIR grant

[9.1.18] - Calder Biosciences was awarded an SBIR grant

[9.1.18] - Avatar Medical LLC was awarded an SBIR grant of $991k

[9.1.18] - Lucerna Inc. was awarded 5 different SBIR grants over the course of 2018

[6.23.18] - Histowiz joins Start-UP NY at SUNY Downstate

[6.22.18] - Histowiz CMO, Dr. Boto gave a speech at the Society of Toxicologic Pathology

[5.21.18] - Hemogenyx and Rockefeller University collaborate to develop new lupus therapies

[5.4.18] - Yesse Technologies was chosen by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for follow up funding

[4.30.18] - American Well, InTouch Health announce major telehealth deals at American Telemedicine Association’s ATA18 conference

[4.12.18] - Co-founder of Concarlo Holdings LLC, Stacy Blain was invited to speak at NYU conference

[4.4.18] - CMP Scientific announced co-marketing agreement with Agilent Technologies

[3.16.18] - Biotech startup company Concarlo Holdings, LLC closes on more than $1 million in seed funding

[3.16.18] - Concarlo Holding, LLC co-founder Stacy Blain named 18 women to watch

[1.8.18] - EpiBone featured in Chase’s Game Changer series

[11.17.17] - BioHealthWays CEO judges the Columbia Engineering Fast Pitch Competition

[10.16.17] - Mousensor, LLC receives NSF SBIR to decode the human sense of smell

[9.11.17] - BioHealthWays sponsors and speaks at Drug Delivery Summit in Philidelphia

[3.3.17] - New York Lieutenant Governor Visits Avatar Biotechnologies

[1.1.17] - Mirimus and Charles River Announce Partnership on CRISPR/Cas9 In Vivo Model Creation Services

[8.25.15] - NYC startups Epibone and Dataminr get called up by World Economic Forum

[October 15] - How A Bone Growing Startup Lured 66 Investors, Including Peter Thiel

[May 15] - Smithsonian.com highlights EpiBone’s breakthrough bone graft research

[11.11.14] - Biotech startup EpiBone featured in Business Insider

[10.28.14] - Avatar Biotechnologies participates in Life Sciences Summit 2013

[October 14] - Hemogenyx wins 43North Startup Competition

[4.26.12] - Mouse model startup Mirimus sets sights on industry customers

[5.19.11] - Mirimus puts focus on lab mice