Our world is becoming increasingly mobile. People yearn for ease and convenience with on-the-go lifestyles, even when it comes to their healthcare. With an eye toward these modern user needs, a team of students in Utah, uAir, is looking to integrate easy access to mini-inhaler doses into the busy lives of inhaler-dependent patients worldwide.
Over 75 percent of medical device start-ups in the US fail. Very often, this has nothing to do with the quality or innovative nature of the device at-hand, and everything to do with logistics.
This is where The University of Utah Health’s Center for Medical Innovation comes in. Now in its 11th year, the Center’s pinnacle student start-up program, Bench2Bedside, is turning out student-founded biotech startups that just might change the future―with the right partners and funding.
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EUGENE, Ore. Jan. 21, 2021 Developing economies suffer from a paradox: they don t receive investment flows from developed economies because they lack stability and high-quality financial and lawmaking institutions, but they can t develop those institutions without foreign funds.
A study co-authored by Brandon Julio, a professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Oregon s Lundquist College of Business, found that bilateral investment treaties, commonly known as BITs, can help developing economies overcome this paradox, but only as long as those countries can demonstrate a commitment to property and contract rights.
Julio published the research, A BIT Goes a Long Way: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Cross-border Mergers, in a paper that published online Dec. 11 ahead of print in the