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Venture:Part 1 - Mark Heesen Presentation at BioWest 2010

2010-10-17T18:09:53.129Z

COBioscience | October 09, 2010

Recorded Sept 30, 2010, at the Denver Grand Hyatt. Presenter: Mark G. Heesen, President, National Venture Capital Association.Mark Heesen has advocated for the venture capital industry, entrepreneurship and innovation for nearly two decades, first as NVCA's head of public policy and since 1999 as the Association's president. Under Mark's leadership, the NVCA has grown in both scope and scale as it relates to its public policy agenda, research initiatives, and member programs. Mark is constantly engaged in legislative and regulatory issues surrounding information technology, life sciences and clean technology investing, providing strategic direction for the NVCA professional staff and managing a board of twenty-six venture capital practitioners.

Wireless: iPhone OS 3.0 & Medical Devices

2009-07-02T15:15:49.574Z

Applications being built for the latest “3.0″ version of the iPhone operating system — and likely soon for a number of other smartphones — promise to monitor your every step, your cycles, your health, constantly, via sensors on your skin.

Right now, they’re focused on people with serious ailments. In Spring 2009, LifeScan, a Johnson & Johnson company focused mainly on diabetes monitoring devices and software, demonstrated a Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose monitor that syncs with the iPhone’s 3.0 operating system. The iPhone 3.0 OS, to be released sometime summer 2009, lets the phone interact with other devices, thus making all this possible.

Looking forward to this, a bunch of companies are working away on applications that monitor all of your six vitals: These vitals are temperature, heart rate, heart rhythm, respiration rate, blood pressure and 02 saturation (or the amount of oxygen you have in your blood). With all that information, the phone could do some cool stuff:

NanoMedicine & MicoMedicine: Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University

2008-12-10T22:20:53.002Z

Nanoscale engineering can be a powerful tool for improving public health and quality of life. Working at the nanoscale with organic and inorganic materials (i.e., from DNA strands to gold nanowires), the Biodesign Institute's applications include improved diagnostic devices, medical implants such as continuous glucose monitoring for diabetics and improved solar power.
Panelists include: George Poste, DVM, Ph.D., Director, the Biodesign Institute; Subhash Mahajan, Ph.D., Director, School of Materials, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering; David Guston, Ph.D., Director, Center for Nanotech in Society.
Guest interviews include: Joseph Wang, D.Sc. Director, Bioelectronics and Biosensors, the Biodesign Institute; Stuart Lindsay, Ph.D., Director, Single Molecule Biophysics.
Learn more. Visit http://www.azpbs.org/asuspotlight

Strategy: Technology Management Program UCSB - Bio-Devices

2008-09-18T04:09:45.333Z

From: uctelevision

UCSB's Technology Management Program was designed to meet the standards of today's business world. This program features Daniel R. Doiron, Founder & former VP-Technology, Miravant Medical Technolog...
UCSB's Technology Management Program was designed to meet the standards of today's business world. This program features Daniel R. Doiron, Founder & former VP-Technology, Miravant Medical Technologies, Inc.
Series: Technology Management Program
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