Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Align Technology, Angelalign, Art-Islets, Austrianova, Avant Technologies, Cellcarta, Guardant Health, Lunit, NorthStar Medical, Quest Diagnostics, Terthera.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Burning Rock, Fluid AI, Neuromod Devices, TSC Life.
Heartflow Inc. hasn’t skipped a beat in pumping out good news, with U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance for its next-gen plaque analysis algorithm and platform and Cigna coverage across all lines of coverage starting in October. The new algorithm improves plaque detection 21% compared to the first version of Heartflow’s algorithm.
The lack of funding available for early-stage European med-tech and AI-based companies could soon see many go under as their current backers run out of capital, and new investors fail to materialize, Hubert Birner, managing partner at TVM Capital Life Science, told BioWorld.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Bracken, Caristo Diagnostics, Compass Bioinformatics, Epic, Genomenon, Labconnect, Myriad, Quest, Sophia Genetics.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Bunkerhill Health, Cionic, Heartflow, Noul.