Click Therapeutics Anticipates Pharma Will Begin Developing Digital Drugs From Clinical Stage

While the initial focus is medical devices and life sciences, Ketryx sees future opportunities in other high-regulation sectors including automotive, aerospace and defense, pharma manufacturing and nuclear systems.

After publishing encouraging results from first-in-human trials of its brain-computer interface, Axoft announced plans to sell its BCI-enabling material Fleuron to researchers and private organizations for R&D use. The company sees this as a revenue stream and feedback loop to refine its BCI platform designed for safer, longer-lasting brain implants.

Digital pathology makes it possible to unlock insights previously hidden to the human eye, “reshaping how we diagnose and treat patients,” said Nathan Buchbinder, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Proscia. He shared his views on the future of digital pathology and the lessons he has learned from working with pathologists.

“It’s quite likely [consumer wearable manufacturers] are changing the sensitivity and specificity based on consumer feedback, but not for medical reasons,” said Dipak Kotecha, a University of Birmingham professor of cardiology. Often, self-reported performance evidence from manufacturers is “low quality and biased.”