The government will provide funding for up to six specialist centres focusing on digital pathology or medical imaging, as part of the drive to make the UK a world leader in the field The government has launched a £50m competition, aiming to...

Grail, a company that aims to use a blood test to spot cancer, has announced a massive round of funding for its experimental approach. A billion dollars sounds like a lot of money. But when your ambitions are as big as the...

Last Fall I wrote a couple of posts about the growing disenchantment with 'Pinkification' and 'Pinktober' referencing the all-out blitz during October to go "Pink" for breast bancer awareness and prevention.  In one of the pieces I mentioned...

Investors include ResMed founder Peter Farrell and Prairie Ventures Mikroscan Technologies, maker of brightfield remote telemicroscopy systems, has closed on $3M in additional funding from a group of private investors including Peter...

Last month this blog turned 8 years old with nearly 2,700 posts to date or about 330 posts per year on average.  Along the way in addition to news items, my thoughts, stories and remembrances of medical education and the like there have been a...

Two new investors, Cambridge Innovative Capital and Scottish Equity Partners join existing investors Albion Ventures and UCLB   The investment enables the launch of the ROCA® test in US and UK in 2015, as well as the establishment of a...