Strategic Ventures Blog

On Wednesday, October 1, 2024,  Dr. Patrick Calhoun, President and Chief Science Officer of Nanocrine, Inc., visited the laboratories of the National Cancer Institute (NCI),  and tested for the first time Nanocrine’s revolutionary plasmonic chip using living cells.

Spotlight on Defender Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFUs) affect approximately 18.6 million people worldwide each year, including 1.6 million new cases every year in the United States alone. DFUs are a recurring, chronic health problem, not just one-time events: over 85% of DFU patients experience a recurrence within 5 years.

Drowning is the leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 4 in the United States and the second leading cause of death by accidental injury for children 5 to 14.