The CEO of QuantumDX, Jonathan O’Halloran, spoke to Medtech Insight about the benefits of selling diagnostics in China and argued for a pragmatic approach to IP protection when launching in a country where counterfeiting is common.
UK-based QuantuMDx has signed a cooperation agreement with Sansure Biotech, a large in vitro diagnostics company based in Changsha, capital of China’s Hunan province.
The two companies will work together to expand the reach and testing breadth of QuantumDX’s Q-POC point-of-care platform.
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Among early cancer screening tests, SpotitEarly stands out by combining dogs’ superior sense of smell with machine learning. SpotitEarly plans two US clinical trials for breast and lung cancer aiming to seek FDA clearance, but needs more funding to support clinical development and commercialization.
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Pending legislation seeks to address what the sponsors argue is a lack of transparency in medical billing. If enacted, the bill would provide patients with the costs of procedures and medications before receiving them. A data collection expert discusses what the bill could mean for patients.
A new MRI scanner developed by a team of scientists working with the National Institutes of Health marks a milestone in understanding the complexities of the human brain. Andrea Beckel-Mitchener with the NIH Brain Initiative discusses the significance of this potentially game-changing device.
