BioAdvance, the Southeastern PA funder of promising life sciences startups, played an integral role in steering Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and its molecular brain imaging technology toward the big time.
A cutting-edge medical research company outside of York expanded its offices earlier this year and is already running out of space.
The Greater Reading Keystone Innovation Zone is running a business idea contest for students from five colleges in Berks County. The only stipulations are that the businesses have to be for profit and must somehow focus on technology.
Researchers at Lock Haven and Penn State universities are developing tiny implants that could restore sight, hearing and motion to those whose nerves were damaged by an injury or illness.
Pennsylvania companies that want to do business overseas have a partner in state government. The state's Envoy program recently got an award from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
Bioscience firms all over the Keystone State have been awarded grants and tax credits thanks to a federal program aimed at improving medicine and creating jobs.
Clarion Research Group, has developed a bone grafting technology that's being tested in clinical trials. It prompts bones to grow faster, essentially by multiplying the number of stem cells and telling them to convert to bone cells.
Pittsburgh-area writer, television producer and cancer survivor Lisa Lurie created CancerBeGlammed.com with Ellen Weiss Kander, who also found herself desperately seeking fashionable and functional garments and gear for her own recovery.
Throughout high school, Raina Jain has studied a man-made bone substitute in a Lehigh University lab. She recently presented her research to President Barack Obama at the White House Science Fair.