by the Skribe Team We’re excited to announce the close of our pre-seed round to advance our wireless wearable patch built to detect cardiotoxicity caused by cancer therapies. We’ve found excellent partners in GoAhead Ventures, Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures, and a group of key angel investors – all who recognize the significant opportunity to preserve…

Crashing or Sliding into Sickness?  Breaking a bone is typically a discrete event. In Monday’s Tour De France Stage 3, sprinter Jasper Philipsen suffered a nasty crash that saw him carried away on a stretcher and out of this year’s race. In one moment, he was in full cry towards the line – the next,…

By Ryan Neely, Ph.D.  Last week, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the US Department of Health and Human Services will embark on “one of the biggest” campaigns in its history to encourage Americans to adopt wearable devices – with the stated vision of equipping every American with a wearable device over…

By Ryan Neely, Ph.D.  New FDA Guidance for Digitizing Preclinical Testing  On April 10th, the FDA announced a plan to phase out animal testing requirements for investigational new drug (IND) applications1. This move underscores a growing trend to tackle the high cost and low success rates that plague drug development by improving in vitro and in silico…

By Ryan Neely, Ph.D.  Harping on the inefficiencies of the American healthcare system is almost cliché at this point. Costs are rising, outcomes are lagging, and misaligned incentives prioritize treatment over prevention. At the same time, millions of Americans happily pay out of pocket for wearable health trackers that record their physiology 24/7. Undoubtedly, terabytes of…

By Ryan Neely, Ph.D.  Thinking Past Chemo Surviving cancer is a grueling battle from diagnosis through remission. Even so, more people than ever are winning their fight – helped in part by increasingly powerful treatments that kill cancer in innovative new ways. But greater survival means an increasing need to address the scars that fighting cancer…