By Nono Hu, Senior Manager, Branding & Messaging, LSN  

This Monday, RESI came to TMCx, the Texas Medical Center's 100,000-square-foot accelerator space. RESI @ TMCx featured approximately 150 investors, 250 biotech, medtech and healthcare IT entrepreneurs, and 60 service providers.

 

In the exhibit hall, 34 of the most innovative early stage life science companies at the event were chosen to participate in a virtual investment contest - The RESI Innovation Challenge, showcasing cutting-edge life science technologies in poster displays and competing to raise the most RESI Cash. Without further ado here are the top 3 contestants!

 

Alejandro Zamorano, Director of Business Development, LSN  Niko Skievaski, Co-founder, Redox | James Lloyd, Co-founder & CTO, Redox  Michael Quigley, Director of Research, LSN

 

First Prize Winner: Redox

 

 

 

As a first prize winner, Redox will receive complimentary subscription to the LSN Investor Platform.

 

Second Prize Winner: NeuroFx

As a second prize winner, NeuroFx will receive two complimentary RESI tickets.

 

Third Prize Winner: TeVido BioDevices

  

As a third prize winner, TeVido will receive one complimentary RESI ticket...
 

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By Shaoyu Chang, MD, MPH,  Senior Research Analyst, LSN 

Our body is home to millions of microorganisms that form a symbiotic, ecological community, known as microbiome. With the development in genomics and microbiology, the crosstalk between microbes and the body has been gradually deciphered. Potential new treatments have emerged, with some coming close to fruition. This week we have decide to take a dive into the Life Science Nation (LSN) Company Platform to get a snapshot of the current landscape in this field.

While microbiome research is still in its infancy, through the LSN Company Platform we were able to find 40 companies currently working on new technologies in the microbiome field. As shown in Figure 1, the United States is the leading country in terms of number of microbiome-related companies, while Western European countries including France, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Netherlands also have significant activity...