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Ben Franklin to Invest $342,378 In Regional Economic Development
The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s (BFTP/NEP) Board of Directors has approved the investment of $342,378 in support of regional economic development. BFTP/NEP’s goal is to help lead northeastern Pennsylvania to a better economic future by building partnerships that develop and apply technology for competitive advantage. To achieve this goal, Ben Franklin staff Continue Reading…
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Ben Franklin client Saladax at Forefront of Customized Medication
There is a growing realization that enabling physicians to take a personalized approach to treatment decisions can dramatically improve clinical outcomes, reduce adverse-drug related events, and improve patients’ quality of life. Read more. Saladax – Bethlehem Co at Forefront of Customized Medication 12-9-13
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Keystone Edge Feature: Ben Franklin Venture Idol
With a laser focus, a clear grasp of its market, realistic goals and a strategy for achieving them, Bethlehem’s Pivitec has emerged as the 2013 Ben Franklin Venture Idol. Read more.
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Ben Franklin Client Cernostics Raises $1.4 Million in Series B Round
Cernostics’ Series B funding will further develop a breakthrough diagnostic platform, producing comprehensive risk prediction for the development of esophageal cancer in patients with Barrett’s Esophagus. Read more.
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Berkshire Blanket Partners with Ben Franklin Alumnus X-STATIC®
Silver fiber technology provides antimicrobial, temperature regulating, and odor resistant benefits to baby blankets and apparel. Berkshire Blanket, a leading brand of premium quality blankets, throws, and soft home goods, introduces its new Forever Safe™ collection of baby blankets, apparel and accessories featuring X-STATIC®, a product of Noble Biomaterials. Forever Safe products with X-STATIC® help Continue Reading…
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Ben Franklin Alumnus Particle Sciences wins contract to treat Traumatic Brain Injury
Particle Sciences has been tasked with creating a nasal formulation of the steroid hormone progesterone that can be used to treat patients who have suffered traumatic brain injury. Read more.
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Crowdfunding, Action Video and Body Temperature… Oh My!
Blog on Lehigh Valley Tech’s Startup Weekend event that was held November 15-17 at Ben Franklin TechVentures. The event winner, Impatient, advanced to the Ben Franklin Venture Idol event held on November 21. Read more.
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Pivitec Wins Ben Franklin Venture Idol
First Northeastern PA-Based Crowdfunding Event Pivitec, LLC won Ben Franklin Venture Idol, hosted by the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania on Thursday, November 21. The event was held at the Innovation Institute in Ben Franklin TechVentures®, the award-winning technology incubator/post-incubator on Lehigh University’s Mountaintop Campus. Ben Franklin Venture Idol is like a cross Continue Reading…
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Ben Franklin Alumnus OraSure Technologies Announces New Agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific
OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSUR) has reached an agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to develop and supply up to 12 homogenous fully automated oral fluid drugs of abuse assays to be used with a new Intercept® oral fluid specimen collection device. OraSure’s current Intercept® Oral Fluid Drug Testing System was the first FDA-cleared in-vitro diagnostic laboratory-based Continue Reading…
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Founder of Ben Franklin Alumnus Viddler Profiled in Keystone Edge
At about the same time YouTube was getting started, Donna DeMarco and her business partner had an idea for technology that would allow people to interact with videos for educational purposes. Read more.
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Ben Franklin client Azevan is developing novel treatments for stress, mood and behavioral disorders
The company’s most advanced compound, SRX246, a treatment for intermittent explosive disorder, will begin phase-two, clinical trials in the first quarter of 2014. Azevan is also developing treatment for anger, aggression and impulse control disorders, which often spring from traumatic brain injury, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and personality disorders. Read more.
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Lehigh Valley Business: Network Backs Regional Entrepreneurs
The Lehigh Valley Angel Investors Network is looking for new partners to expand its portfolio and provide stronger investment opportunities to entrepreneurs throughout the region. Ben Franklin has been hosting the group at Ben Franklin TechVentures for more than a year. “Hosting the Lehigh Valley Angel Investors Network ties in with Ben Franklin’s work to Continue Reading…
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Co-Founder of Ben Franklin Alumnus Saladax Named National Entrepreneurial Winning Woman
Adrienne Choma, Esq., Co-Founder of Saladax Biomedical, Inc. is among just 12 winners nationwide of the EY 2013 class of Entrepreneurial Winning Women. This is a national competition and ongoing executive leadership program that identifies high-potential women entrepreneurs whose businesses show real potential to scale. Saladax Biomedical is a post-incubator company located at Ben Franklin Continue Reading…
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‘Innovate in PA’ Highlighted at Senate Policy Hearing
Chad Paul, President and CEO of the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, and Mike Gausling, Managing Partner of Originate Ventures and Co-Founder of Ben Franklin Alumnus OraSure Technologies, testified at a Senate Policy Hearing on “Innovate in PA.” Innovate in PA delivers new investment of nearly $100 million in vital and growing technology-based Continue Reading…
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Ben Franklin Hosts PA House Manufacturing Caucus
The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/NEP) hosted the Pennsylvania House Manufacturing Caucus at its Ben Franklin TechVentures® headquarters on Lehigh University’s campus on Thursday afternoon, November 14. More than a dozen elected officials and state dignitaries toured the award-winning, technology-based incubator/post-incubator facility, stopping at resident company XiGo Nanotools and post-incubator client Saladax Continue Reading…
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Ben Franklin Alumnus IQE to Supply Philips’ Laser Wafers
IQE has signed a three-year contract with Philips Technologies to supply epi-wafers for making vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) devices. IQE will be the majority supplier of epi-wafers to Philips. Read more.
