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Brown-launched biotech secures $375,000 in Slater funding

Health Services 10/25/2023

PROVIDENCE – A biotech company with roots in Brown University has secured $375,000 from the Slater Technology Fund to support the creation of lab-developed...

URI STAR: Walt Besio, professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Rhode Island and owner of CREmedical, secured $6 million in a National Science Foundation grant in 2015, a year after he earned two patents for a biomedical electrode that measures brain activity and can be used to potentially stop life-threatening seizures. From left, Jessika Decker, test subject and intern at CREmedical, Besio and Rachel Bartels, product manager at CREmedical. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Rhode Island needs more scientific breakthroughs to become a biotech hub,...

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Rhode Island wants its own share of the biomedical-, technology- and engineering-based economy that has transformed Boston, and strengthened the competitive position of Massachusetts. To...

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