| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.07.2023 | Biomeme Collaborates with NIH-funded Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group to Evaluate Host Response Test, Differentiating Bacterial & Viral Infections to Combat AMR | AMR is a systemic and global problem of huge proportions against which progress has been stalled during COVID-19. Creating preventative approaches to promote prudent antimicrobial use through a One Health approach is imperative to addressin... |
| 05.06.2023 | Prestigious Award for Life Sciences & Healthcare Emerging 2023 | We are honored to receive this award,” said Max Perelman, CEO at Biomeme. Since our founding in 2012, we've gone from our first prototype PCR thermocycler using a travel hair dryer and an iPhone 4 to being a leading biotechnology companies ... |
| 20.03.2023 | Biomeme Supports Biosecurity Surveillance Program Launched by Ginkgo Bioworks and the Ukraine Ministry of Health | Our partnership with Concentric by Ginkgo continues to strengthen because of our alignment and focus on Biosecurity. We share in their belief that a “biosecurity in a box” model could be a way to manage biosecurity concerns in crisis zones,... |
| 04.10.2022 | Biomeme To Launch Portable Sample-To-Answer PCR System, Host-Response Testing | It also precipitated a dramatic expansion for Philadelphia-based mini PCR instrument and assay developer Biomeme.
The company is now using revenues from CAP and CLIA accredited testing labs it owns to create a sample-to-answer instrument an... |
| 09.09.2021 | Biomeme Appoints Ephraim Tsalik, MD, PhD as Chief Medical Officer | Ephraim Tsalik, Chief Medical Officer at Biomeme, Inc Our team is focused on developing revolutionary point-of-care technology to better diagnose and manage disease. Together with the Biomeme team, I will leverage my experience to deliver o... |
| 27.08.2021 | Biomeme & Predigen Merge to Enable Point-of-Care Delivery of Host Response Tests That Address Critical Unmet Needs in Healthcare | Predigen’s acquisition will expand Biomeme’s capabilities across infectious disease and clinical microbiology, business management, and commercialization.
redigen’s portfolio includes flagship host gene expression biomarkers for the pre-sym... |
| 26.08.2021 | Biomeme & Predigen Merge to Enable Point-of-Care Delivery of Host Response Tests That Address Critical Unmet Needs in Healthcare | Predigen and Biomeme Host Response Test System (HR-BV)
PHILADELPHIA (PRWEB) August 26, 2021
Biomeme, the leading provider of portable PCR testing solutions, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Predigen, a privately held diagnostic ... |
| 06.04.2021 | After a Pandemic Growth Spurt, COVID-19 Test Maker Biomeme is Moving its HQ to North Broad and Looking to the Future | Enter a global pandemic. The company, now about 280 employees across the U.S. and about 120 in the Philadelphia region, has outgrown its office. It will join esports company Nerd Street Gamers at a 44,000-square-foot office, lab, testing an... |
| 05.04.2021 | After a pandemic growth spurt, COVID-19 test maker Biomeme is moving its HQ to North Broad and looking to the future | About this time last year, Biomeme — makers of a rapid COVID-19 test and other diagnostic hardware — had about 35 people in its 10th and Chestnut streets HQ.
Enter a global pandemic. The company, now about 280 employees across the U.S. and ... |
| 31.03.2021 | Biomeme & One Health Labs Announce Partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks to Address National Pandemic with Pooled Testing at K-12 Schools | Student self collecting swab sample As communities across America work to accomplish the national priority of returning to in-person learning over the coming months, testing will be a critical tool to monitor viral spread and build confiden... |
| 10.12.2020 | What’s coming up at MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine Day 3? | The MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine healthcare conference on December 9-11 draws healthcare and life science executives and investors as we spotlight progress in the development of diagnostics, clinical trial innovation, AI in drug develo... |
| 08.12.2020 | Which startups will present at MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine Pitch Perfect? | The MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine healthcare conference on December 9-11 will draw healthcare and life science executives as we spotlight progress in the development of diagnostics, clinical trial innovation, AI in drug development, and... |
| 13.07.2020 | NextUp: The Philly Company Improving Rapid Molecular Tests for COVID-19 | It all started with an idea, an iPhone and a hairdryer.
The trio had a shared interest in personal health and wanted to give individuals access to the same scientific capabilities that trained scientists have in a central lab. To do so, the... |
| 05.06.2020 | 15 Biotech Companies in Philadelphia at the Helm of Research and Discovery | Like many tech hubs, the City of Brotherly Love has been at the helm of invention and disruption for the past several decades, giving rise to some of the country’s most impressive tech companies and startups. And while Philly’s tech scene s... |
| 18.03.2020 | Philly Biotech is on It | That means Philadelphia area companies and research institutions that have already been working on efforts to better understand and detect the virus are now at the tip of the spear of the nation’s disorganized response effort.
“You have to ... |
| 16.03.2020 | Ben Franklin Companies Fighting Infectious Disease and its Effects | While southeastern Pennsylvania has numerous large companies working on novel technologies to address these issues across many aspects of pandemic mitigation – vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, surveillance/epidemiology, devices, manufac... |
| 13.03.2020 | Coronavirus Test Available Now as COVID-19 Spreads Worldwide | At the time of writing, WHO characterized COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) as a pandemic and has infected over 120,000 people with over 4,000 casualties. With that said, over 66,000 people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 have recovered.... |
| 09.07.2018 | CONVERGE Preview: Investment in screening tools as one approach to supporting cancer treatment innovation | In a Q&A, Griffith-Gryga highlighted some of the Dreamit companies that could make an impact on cancer care.
Note: This exchange has been lightly edited.
How did you come to work for Dreamit Ventures?
I had been a VC for 14 years when I... |
| 16.08.2017 | 4 Philly tech leaders sat down to talk about inclusivity | Ben Franklin Technology Partners has reached out to local leaders in the tech community to discuss national trending topics before. And today we’ve tackled a tough one: sexual harassment and gender discrimination in tech. The response may s... |
| 11.08.2017 | Supermodel Natalia Vodianova joins ranks of celebrity healthcare investors with women’s healthcare startup | Flo has evolved in the past year from a period tracker to include more information on ovulation and personal health insights based on the data users punch into the app, a spokeswoman for the company noted in an email. The company has also r... |
| 17.05.2017 | Ben Franklin Approved 3.7M in 21 Early Stage Companies | |
| 06.12.2016 | Biomeme Says its New Office is a Longterm Commitment to Philly |
“Our old meeting room used to be the bathroom,” Perelman joked (we think?). “It used to get awkward when someone came in to pee.”
The biotech company just moved into a 4,500-square-foot office at 10th and Chestnut. The move is almost doubl... |
| 23.05.2016 | CloudMine Named a Cool Vendor in Mobile App Development by Gartner |
CloudMine launched the Connected Health Cloud in March 2016 at the HIMSS Conference in Las Vegas, NV. Leading healthcare organizations, such as Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, are deploying the Connected Health Cloud to connect to a... |
| 19.05.2016 | Solid growth, but more work ahead for Philly’s life sciences sector |
This was the consensus of a group of key industry leaders during a Philly Tech Week 2016 presented by Comcast panel discussion in the Center City offices of the Public Health Management Corporation.
Conveners, startups and major stakeholde... |
| 19.05.2016 | Phila. med tech startup working on multimillion dollar government contract |
Biomeme’s co-founder, Jesse van Westrienen, declined to elaborate further citing the deal’s ongoing negotiations, but such a partnership would be a big win for one of Philadelphia’s most promising startups, which was founded just a few yea... |
| 13.05.2016 | Here are the winners of the 2016 PACT Enterprise Awards | The Pennsylvania Convention Center hosted a crowd of some 900 investors and stakeholders Thursday to celebrate the winners of the 2016 PACT Enterprise Awards.
Dean Miller, president and CEO of the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Techn... |
| 28.04.2016 | The Biomeme System Turns Any iPhone Into A Mobile DNA Lab |
“Everything got [sic] DNA that’s living, so the number of applications are endless,” Jesse van Westrienen, co-founder of Biomeme, told Tech Times.
The Biomeme system consists of the hardware, software, chemistry aspect and device that atta... |
| 11.03.2016 | Home Ebola testing with a Tricorder? There's an app for that |
Last year, if you’d walked off a flight from West Africa running a high fever, you’d very quickly find yourself quarantined to test for the Ebola virus. The length of your stay in quarantine would depend on how long it took to run the requ... |
| 07.03.2016 | Phila. medical app firm takes a Vegas visit |
He was bound for HIMSS, the conclave of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, which McCorkle calls “the biggest health-care technology meeting of the year,” collecting hospitals, drugmakers, drug researchers, cost acco... |
| 21.12.2015 | Biotech elbows its way in |
They also chose to go a nontraditional route for life science companies and give crowdfunding — raising small amounts of money from a large number of people over the Internet — a try.
“One of our advisers, Steve Welch [co-founder and manag... |
| 03.12.2015 | Pennsylvania Bio unveils its list of '16 to watch in '16' |
The people selected as “16 to Watch in ’16” was decided upon by a committee of nine reviewers who chose individuals based on their “successes in 2015 and projected results for 2016.”
>> Check out the list here
Among the honorees are ... |
| 02.09.2015 | BioBots raises $1.25 million |
BioBots, the 3D printing company for living cells, recently closed a $1.25 million funding round.
The convertible debt round was from a mix of angel investors, equity crowdfunding investors and seed-stage funds, likeDreamIt Ventures and 50... |
| 21.05.2015 | Biomeme @ New York Tech Day 2015 |
The Biomeme device is a real-time PCR thermocycler that attaches to your iPhone 5s and enables you to perform gold-standard DNA analysis.
Using our lab-free sample prep, you isolate DNA from your environment, add it to a specific test cart... |
| 18.03.2015 | Biomeme wants you to take its latest DIY genomic test | It’s right before the test when I start to get nervous.
Like, my heart starts pounding, which is strange because we’ve been talking about this test for the last 30 minutes and I felt just fine.
We’re in the N3rd Street offices of Biomeme, a... |
| 23.10.2014 | Three of these nine innovative technologies are Ben Companies! | |
| - | What’s coming up at MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine Day 3? | The MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine healthcare conference on December 9-11 draws healthcare and life science executives and investors as we spotlight progress in the development of diagnostics, clinical trial innovation, AI in drug develo... |
| - | CONVERGE Preview: Investment in screening tools as one approach to supporting cancer treatment innovation | One topic of discussion at the MedCity CONVERGE conference July 11-12 in Philadelphia is investment in cancer treatment innovation. Karen Griffith Gryga is managing partner and chief investment officer for Dreamit Ventures and founder of Dr... |
| - | Which startups will present at MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine Pitch Perfect? | The MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine healthcare conference on December 9-11 will draw healthcare and life science executives as we spotlight progress in the development of diagnostics, clinical trial innovation, AI in drug development, and... |
| - | Supermodel Natalia Vodianova joins ranks of celebrity healthcare investors with women’s healthcare startup | Flo app by OWHealth
Menstrual cycle trackers tend to get mixed reviews about their accuracy but that hasn’t had much impact on the popularity of these women’s health apps. Claiming it has reached a milestone of 10 million monthly active use... |
