Axonics (NSDQ: AXNX) announced today that it acquired Contura and its flagship Bulkamid product for up to $235 million. London-based Contura’s Bulkamid is a urethral bulking agent for women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). It is a next-generation hydrogel injected into the urethral wall in a minimally invasive office or outpatient facility procedure to restore the natural closing pressure […]
Hydrogels
AmacaThera raises $10.3M in oversubscribed Series A
AmacaThera announced today that it completed an oversubscribed $10.3 million Series A financing round. Lumira Ventures led the Series A funding, with existing investors Viva BioInnovator and Sprout BioVentures contributing as well. New investors BDC Capital Women in Technology Venture Fund, Inveready, MBX Capital, CR Capital Management, StandUp Ventures and MaRS IAF participated, too, according […]
Contura wins FDA premarket approval for hydrogel injection
Contura announced that it won FDA premarket approval for its Bulkamid hydrogel injection for treating stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Bulkamid is Contura’s proprietary device designed for treating SUI due to intrinsic sphincter deficiency in adult women with SUI or stress predominant mixed incontinence. According to a news release, the product is currently marketed in more […]
Frequency Therapeutics launches hearing loss trial, gains the fast track at FDA
Frequency Therapeutics (NSDQ:FREQ) said today that it launched a Phase 2a study and won fast-track designation at the FDA for its regenerative hearing loss drug. The fast-track program aims to speed up the approval of therapies for unmet needs in serious conditions. Woburn, Mass.-based Frequency’s FX-322 candidate is designed to stimulate the regrowth of sensory hair cells […]
Frequency Therapeutics registers $100m IPO
Frequency Therapeutics has registered an initial public offering of common stock worth $100 million. Woburn, Mass.-based Frequency Therapeutics did not disclose the number of shares it seeks to sell or the price range of the offered units. The company applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission have its common stock listed on The Nasdaq Global […]
Veramorph lands spot in Delaware accelerator
Veramorph Materials landed a spot in a Delaware business accelerator backed by DuPont to develop its hydrogel-based oral drug delivery platform. Veramorph and MCET Technologies (which is developing wearable sensor technology) won their spots in the Delaware Innovation Space via the DuPont FastPass competition. The companies get a year of free access to the accelerator, […]
Ocular Therapeutix doses first wet-AMD patient in implant trial
Ocular Therapeutix (NSDQ:OCUL) said today that it dosed the first patient in a study of its OTX-TKI tyrosine kinase inhibitor implant. The Phase I trial is slated to assess the bioresorbable device’s safety, durability and tolerability in people with wet age-related macular degeneration. The company’s investigational product is a bioresorbable hydrogel fiber implant formulated with a […]
How suppliers are taking drug-delivery tech to the next level
Medical device industry suppliers and outsourcers are helping to enable the latest drug-delivery tech. Drug-eluting technologies are moving beyond stents, thanks in part to the development of polymeric hydrogels engineered to respond to a range of different physical and chemical stimuli. Medtech innovators have figured out how to use hydrogels as components of micro-shells or […]
Gelesis touts study of hydrogel obesity drug
PureTech subsidiary Gelesis today touted results from a pivotal weight-loss study of its obesity drug, Gelesis100. The study met one of its two primary endpoints, with 58% of adults in the treatment arm experiencing clinically-meaningful weight loss of 5% or more. Nearly twice as many adults lost 10% or more of the body weight in the […]
Infertility: There could be a 3D printing solution
New Northwestern University research offers a potential 3D printing solution for women’s infertility – providing hope for cancer survivors who want to start families. The Northwestern researchers successfully 3D printed a bioprosthetic mouse ovary that ovulated when implanted inside a live mouse. Mice with the bioprosthetic ovaries were able to give birth to live pups, […]
