llinois would ban tackle football for children younger than 12 under a proposed state law unveiled Thursday. One study mentioned found measurable changes in the brains of 8- to 13-year-old players after a season on the gridiron. But the study’s author, Dr. Christopher Whitlow of the Wake Forest School of Medicine, said they didn’t lead to noticeable behavioral changes (possible cognitive changes have yet to be analyzed).

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has received a roughly $8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to be used in five-year period to establish a new research center for alcohol addiction, the Winston-Salem based health care system said.

Researchers with the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have found that bioengineered ovaries are more effective than hormone therapy drugs at improving bone and uterine health, along with body composition in rats.

A potential new cell-free treatment for severe burns and chronic wounds that was developed by scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) has been exclusively licensed to XCell Biologix™, a private company that aims to make the therapy available to patients worldwide.

A year ago on the Council for Entrepreneurial Development Technology Venture Conference stage, North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall told the crowd that the state was about to “embark on an exciting journey” when it comes to crowdfunding.

Raleigh startup Impathiq is creating proprietary software designed to improve clinical decisions through integration of electronic medical record systems. The solution can cut unnecessary testing and, thus, costs.

How can health clinics make visits by patients more efficient? Startup Care Directions believes it has the answer. Better digital tools.

Five of the Piedmont Triad region’s most successful individuals and organizations working in the biosciences have been honored with 2017 Excellence Awards at Triad BioNight, a biennial celebration of the region’s life science sector organized by the Piedmont Triad Office of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

The individuals and organizations were given 2017 Excellence Awards at the event, which is organized by the Piedmont Triad Office of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

Biotechnology company Chondrial Therapeutics, focused on the treatment of rare mitochondrial diseases, has secured up to $22.6m in Series A financing led by Deerfield Management besides naming a new president and CEO in Carole Ben-Maimon, MD.

Wake Forest Innovations, the technology collaborative between industry and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has identified the first six inventions to receive investment funding to spur their development from the Catalyst Fund, a $15 million technology development program established by the medical center in October 2015.

Six early-stage technologies, all invented at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and being developed through Wake Forest Innovations, will receive a combined $595,000 investment to support their initial development.

That’s Ken Russell, director of Wake Forest Innovations’ Medical Device Program. He and his colleagues are improving the way the medical community saves lives.

We told you back in March about the plans by Global Future Solutions, a tenant of the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, to build a biomanufacturing facility in Archdale for a promising product it calls MEGR102 based on strong anticipated demand. A recent win by that product in a clean technology competition in GFS' home country of Australia may give it an added boost.

Researchers inside the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter have a patent pending on a protein that they think will improve the current Whooping Cough or Bordetella pertussis vaccine.

Earlier this year New York College announced MOU's with Wake Forest Innovations, the commercialization enterprise of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and New York Medical College, Touro University System along with other major corporations for the mutual development and exploitation of patents. It is believed that banks, credit card companies, law firms and others will work together to create the platform for this new type of credit card.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center will soon be using a new method to make sure patients take their medicines how and when they’re supposed to take them. Wake Forest Innovations, the commercialization arm of the hospital, has reached a licensing deal with one of its startup companies Causa Research.

Wake Forest Innovations, the commercialization arm of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, is partnering with a Korean-based Healthcare system to begin product research and clinical testing overseas.

Wake Forest Innovations, the commercialization arm of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, announced it will collaborate with Charlotte-based Novarus Healthcare to develop mobile apps and other web-based tools.

Lisa Pamintuan, President of New York College of Health Professions, announces two more patents granted for the College's highly coveted Intellectual Patent Portfolio. Recently, the College announced Memorandums of Understanding with Touro College/New York Medical College and Wake Forest Innovations to develop and commercialize certain technologies

It’s not quite Amazon.com, but if it is Triad-born university research you’re after, it’s easy to go shopping online.

As the U.S. grapples with problems associated with vaccines – in terms of cost and avail-ability - North Carolina is poised to provide a solution. Dr. Steven B. Mizel, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, is organizing the North Carolina Center for Vaccine Innovation, an initiative to bring new vaccines to market in a cost-conscious, efficient way.

Winston-Salem could be the headquarters for a vaccine-development effort that would make North Carolina a world leader in bringing new vaccines to market, a medical researcher said, with some of the money for the project contained in the North Carolina state Senate’s proposed budget.

The Wake Forest Innovation Quarter has already made an unmistakable impact on downtown Winston-Salem, transforming former Reynolds Tobacco facilities into modern life sciences research space. Now that footprint is getting bigger. Wexford Science & Technology, the developer of the Innovation Quarter, is pumping an additional $150 million into the site with renovation work already started on two former Reynolds Tobacco buildings.

“Wake Forest Innovation Quarter” has a ring to it. We applaud the new name for the technology hub formerly known as Piedmont Triad Research Park. It’s more dynamic and contains one of our favorite words: “innovation.”

By the end of next year, the newly minted Wake Forest Innovation Quarter will have grown from about 900 employees to almost 2,800, and the developers

Say hello to Wake Forest Innovation Quarter. That's the new name for Piedmont Triad Research Park as of Monday in a move designed to elevate the brand of the downtown Winston-Salem research park and create a more visible public link to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

The Piedmont Triad Research Park is no more, reborn as of Monday with a new name. The Wake Forest Innovation Quarter. Companies not affiliated with the university or Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center can opt for a shorter name: Innovation Quarter.

The area formerly known as the Piedmont Triad Research Park is now The Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center CEO Dr. John McConnell announced Monday.

Wake Forest University’s campaign to expand its brand has taken over the name of the downtown Winston-Salem research park it helped found.

Products providing more comfort to patients in awkward examination and intensive-care settings are some of the first fruits coming out of the Wake Forest Innovations initiative.

If 2012 is looked back on as the year activity reached a tipping point for the Piedmont Triad Research Park, then 2013 may be the one when the 150-acre ...

It’s challenging enough to meet LEED standards in a typical building, but when you’re talking about high-tech facilities, it might sometimes seem like a quantum leap.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center announced Wednesday the creation of the Wake Forest Innovations operating division that will bring together efforts ...

Taking high honors annually from U.S. News & World Report for "Best Hospitals," Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has become a national standout.

Forsyth Technical Community College will lead a consortium of schools on a $15 million grant program to improve bioscience education curricula.

Vice President Joe Biden, standing before a crowd of about 600 people in an old tobacco warehouse converted into a biotechnology research building in downtown Winston-Salem, said Wednesday that the U.S. must commit to innovation to create not only new jobs but also new industries.