“While consumers are showing more interest in wearable health devices and entrepreneurs are proposing novel ways to cut cost in the medical system, there are still several opportunities (and obstacles) for players in the digital health sector according to the participants of Tuesday’s healthcare tech panel at the life science entrepreneurship conference, Innovation Louisiana.” – Catherine Nguyen
November 21, 2013 – Read it now at Silicon Bayou News
MiniVax was the winner of the 2013 BioChallenge, a pitch competition for emerging Louisiana bioscience startups. MiniVax is developing a treatment for a deadly fungal pneumonia that affects immunocompromised patients.
November 23, 2013 – Read it now in The Advocate
MiniVax, “a company developing a treatment for opportunistic infections has won the BioChallenge at the New Orleans BioInnovation Center, securing $20,000 in cash, donated professional services and the use of office space…A second prize worth more than $5,000 went to True-See Systems, which has a technology to calibrate and standardize digital photography for medical use, according to an announcement from the BioInnovation Center.”
November 19, 2013 – Read it now in The Times-Picayune / Nola.com
November 15, 2013 – New Orleans CityBusiness
CityBusiness is profiling the companies in the BioChallenge pitch competition. MiniVax is developing a treatment for a deadly fungal pneumonia that affects immunocompromised patients such as those suffering HIV/AIDs or those recovering from an organ transplant.
November 15, 2013 – New Orleans CityBusiness
CityBusiness is profiling the companies in the BioChallenge pitch competition. InnoGenomics Technologies is creating innovative solutions and products to enhance current forensic and human DNA identification methods.
November 15, 2013 – New Orleans CityBusiness
CityBusiness is profiling the companies in the BioChallenge pitch competition. TRUE-See Systems is developing a system for calibrating medical digital photos to standardize patient documentation, clarify medical decisions, and improve patient outcomes.
November 15, 2013 – New Orleans CityBusiness
CityBusiness is profiling the companies in the BioChallenge pitch competition. Advano is developing a process for manufacturing nanoparticles for a wide range of industrial and biomedical applications.
November 08, 2013 – New Orleans CityBusiness
“CEO and President Dr. Arman Sadeghpour said the next step for the company will be to find a partner to build a packaging and distribution facility exclusively for Theodent in Louisiana.” -Maria Clark
Four companies have been named finalists in the 2013 BioChallenge. These four companies will go on to pitch for over $25,000 in prizes on November 18:
– Advano, a nanotechnology manufacturing company
– InnoGenomics Technologies, a forensic DNA testing company
– MiniVax, a startup developing treatments for opportunistic infections
– TRUE-See Systems, a digital medical photography calibration startup
November 7, 2013 – Read it now in The Times-Picayune / Nola.com
November 05, 2013 – Silicon Bayou News
Be Well Nutrition beat out 8 other startups to take home the top prize of $20,000 in the first annual Greaux GNO business plan competition.