Temiloluwa Adeniyi believes that engineers that bring diverse perspectives to the table can solve real world problems. She uses her own background, as a Nigerian-American from an immigrant family, as an example. “If a group is all from the same background working on a problem, you may not get diverse perspectives. If you grow up or […]
After being exposed to the healthcare world from his surgeon father, Justin Grant has found a knack for finding inefficiency gaps in the healthcare space. The entrepreneur’s first startup, Scrubpay, aimed to improve medical bill payment collection by reminding patients of the balance they owed through digital notifications. Shortly after, one of Grant’s friends was diagnosed with […]
The national opioid prescribing rate started increasing in 2006, with the total number of prescriptions dispensed peaking in 2012 at more than 255 million. Ranging from hydrocodone to oxycodone, opioids bind to receptors in the brain to disrupt pain signals, while at the same time activating reward areas in your brain that produce euphoria-inducing dopamine. The […]
Atlanta’s Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) will be opening a second startup accelerator for medtech companies, in conjunction with Israel’s Rambam Health Care Campus. This accelerator builds on the efforts of GCMI, a Georgia Tech affiliate, to accelerate medtech startups which began last year with their first such program, the A1 Accelerator. Rambam, which […]
Traditional charitable giving may be on the decline for ordinary Americans, according to several reports released in the past few years. Whatever the reason for the decline, signs point to trouble ahead for non-profits that solely rely on donation-based funding. The Atlanta-based American Cancer Society (ACS), for example, has seen a gradual decline in annual […]