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Celdara Medical, LLC today announced that DRIVEN Accelerator Hub Participant Company, CoreMap, has closed a Series A investment of $10.5 M led by Qure Ventures. The round included existing investors such as Ronny Ginor, MD of Fifth Focus/HRMG Investments and Orbimed Venture Partners, and a diverse group of new strategic, corporate, and financial partners. Of the eight companies that have participated in the NIH-funded DRIVEN Accelerator […]

Celdara Medical announces the publication of new translational research in the American Journal of Transplantation indicating that a novel polymer therapeutic candidate, APP-103TM, is able to preserve kidney function in preclinical models of kidney ischemia reperfusion injury, including transplantation.

Celdara Medical, LLC today announced that the first DRIVEN Accelerator Hub Participant Company, CairnSurgical, Inc., has closed a Series A investment led by Morningside Group.

Celdara Medical, LLC today announced the launch of an online resource database for biomedical entrepreneurs: bioentrepreneurresources.com. This database was developed by the DRIVEN Accelerator Hub, an NIH-funded consortium led by Celdara Medical including 10 of the leading research institutions in the Northeast region (NH, VT, ME, DE, and RI). The database is open to biomedical entrepreneurs globally and contains resources from across the country. New resources are added by user submission and curated by DRIVEN.

Celdara Medical, LLC today announced that the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a three-year Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) fast track award to fund the company’s advancement of APP-103 for the treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI). This project builds on the inventions of co-collaborator Dr. Peter Kang at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.