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Vivor CEO highlights patient financial assistance platform for hospitals and health systems
Vivor CEO and Co-founder Ian Manners talks about the origins of the financial assistance startup and their mission to eliminate out-of-pocket costs as a barrier to care.
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Vivor CEO and co-founder Ian Manners talks about the origins of the financial assistance startup and their mission to eliminate out-of-pocket costs as a barrier to care.
Why did you start this company?
In my previous career as a management consultant, I worked with a lot of pharma companies that were trying to figure out all the reasons why patients might not be able to start or continue treatment for life-threatening conditions like cancer. Of course, most of these reasons were clinical ones serious side effects, for example but I was really surprised how often the non-clinical concerns like out-of-pocket cost were causing patients to skip or delay care.
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Beam makes $120M bet that GuideTx’s tech brings gene editing beyond the liver
Base-editing biotech Beam Therapeutics engineered an all-stock buyout of Guide Therapeutics, a startup that finds, in vivo, the lipid nanoparticles that can deliver genetic medicines. Beam said GuideTx’s tech helps it address tissue types throughout the body, not just the liver.
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The next hurdles for gene-editing medicines are therapies that do their work inside the patient. But so far, biotechs have had a hard time developing such in vivo therapies that target anything other than the liver. Beam Therapeutics has acquired a startup whose technology could deliver the biotech’s genetic medicines to more tissues in the body, broadening the potential to address more diseases.
As Covid-19 joins the ranks of cancer and chronic diseases to be tracked and prevented through testing, health plans will need testing solutions that can be distributed quickly and at scale.
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