FDA innovation

Patients Call for Innovation! DiabetesMine Summit 2012

By AmyT on November 18, 2012

A HUGE thank you to everyone who attended and helped with the 2012 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit held at Stanford University this past Friday.
With incredibly frank conversations happening between patient advocates, Pharma execs, entrepreneurs, HCPs, designers, standards and industry experts, and the FDA itself (three agency directors were present!), it certainly felt like we are on the verge of changing the Diabetes World for the better!
There is so much to report. But I am…

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All’s Quiet on the Tandem Front

By AmyT on January 31, 2011

Speaking of iPhone-ish diabetes devices (aren’t we always?), a number of readers asked us lately for an update on the new Tandem insulin pump, which could hardly look more Apple’esque if it tried:

The San Diego-based company has been developing this one for several years, and recently added some famous names to its Clinical Advisory Board: insulin pump experts Dr. Bruce Bode, CDEs Virginia Valentine and John Walsch, and Dr. Steven Edelman of TCOYD fame.…

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Josh Makower, Stanford Biodesign, on Medical Innovation and What’s Wrong with the FDA

By AmyT on December 21, 2010

Dr. Josh Makower is Co-founder of Stanford’s Biodesign Innovation Program, and a Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University Medical School.  He’s also Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ExploraMed, a medical device incubator. And he’s a Venture Partner with New Enterprise Associates, where he supports the investing activity in new medical devices.
In short, Dr. Makower is a world authority on med-tech innovation. I bumped into him while beginning preparations for the…

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