This revolutionary new immunotherapy will combine Intrommune’s disease-modifying treatment through its peanut oral mucosal immunotherapy (OMIT), with the rapid desensitization to allergens provided by Inimmune’s clinical stage proprietary immunotherapy.
UM Alumni Keep Health Care Local in Small-Town Montana
Working every day with your best friend would be a dream come true for some people. Getting to work with your best friend to provide a vital service to your hometown community would make it even more special. For University of Montana alums Stacy Conrow-Ververis and Laurel Chambers that dream is a reality.
Opio Receives $1.5M Award from National Institutes of Health
Opio Connect, Inc., a technology company dedicated to helping Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) expand access to treatment, has received a $1.5 million award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Montana State receives $26.7 million grant for facility to test and promote quantum technology
With a new $26.7 million grant from the U.S. Air Force, Montana State University will establish a facility with the mission of moving advanced quantum technology applications in cybersecurity, communications technology and national defense from concept and testing to market.
Montana State receives $6 million to enhance its research impact
With new funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, research conducted at Montana State University will have more opportunities to be translated into products and solutions with extended real-life impact. MSU was announced last week as one of 18 teams nationwide to receive funding through the NSF’s new Accelerating Research Translation, or ART, program. The cooperative agreement will provide $6 million in support over the next four years.
$4 Million Award Funds UM Biomedical Entrepreneurship and Innovation Hub
The University of Montana recently earned a four-year, $4 million Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (REACH) award from the National Institutes of Health. The award will establish the L.S. Skaggs Institute for Health Innovation–Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (SIHI-REACH).
BIO names John Crowley as new CEO
The wait is finally over as the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) taps John F. Crowley, a longtime leader and tireless patient advocate in the biotech industry, to fill the role of the organization’s new CEO.
FDA approves CRISPR-based sickle cell treatment in historic decision
Dec. 8 was a historic day for the sickle cell community and CRISPR technology, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two milestone treatments: Casgevy, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and Lyfgenia, made by bluebird bio.