Life Sciences

A research team of Brown University scientists involved in BrainGate2 had their ground-breaking clinical trial research published in the May 17 issue of Nature. May 21

Perfuzia Medical Inc. and partners this month were awarded $200,000 by the state to take to clinical testing a device company founder Sagi Brink-Danan is holding to stimulate blood flow to wounded tissue. The technology could potentially ease the suffering of thousands of people with chronic tissue wounds like burns and bed sores. It was developed by Brink-Danan and fellow Israeli ex-pat Schai Schubert. The prototype the Providence company is testing is about the size of a small cellphone, flexible, and can run for about a week on a single battery charge. May 19

Biomedical Structures LLC, a developer of biomedical textiles for medical devices and other advanced clinical applications, announced on May 7 its advanced new tapered medical textile solution for tendons, ligaments and other orthopedic applications. May 14

Researchers at The Miriam Hospital’s Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine say that certain patterns of violence in both childhood and adulthood may make a woman more likely to take significant sexual risks, such as having unprotected sex and a high number of sexual partners. May 14

Rhode Island will receive more than $2.3 million as part of a $1.5 billion health care fraud settlement with Abbott Park, Ill.-based Abbott Laboratories over the illegal off-label marketing of an anti-seizure drug. May 7

Before his math skills took him to earth-orbiting satellites and Internet data analysis, Soren Ryherd liked geography and political science. Apr 28

EpiVax Inc. has been awarded a $1.5 million small business innovation research grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Disease. Apr 9

Politics is the story of “who gets what, when and how,” as Yale political scientist Harold D. Lasswell once defined it. In that context, the creation of an ad hoc business advocacy group, the Coalition for Affordable Health Care Choices, to influence the design and operation of the R.I. Health Benefits Exchange is very much a “political” effort. Apr 3

In the 46 years since University of Rhode Island ocean-engineering professor Malcolm Spaulding first set foot on campus as an undergraduate, he’s spun what was supposed to be a stepping stone to an engineering career into a near lifetime of academic achievements, including building the university’s undergraduate ocean-engineering program. Mar 31

Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee toured the University of Rhode Island’s new pharmacy building today with R.I. Sen. V. Susan Sosnowski, D-New Shoreham, and Speaker of the House Gordon D. Fox, D-Providence. Mar 29