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As per the report, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, founder of Biocon invested in two cancer curated startups. She invested $1.6 million (around Rs 11 crore) in Philadelphia and Mumbai-based UE Lifesciences. UE Lifesciences, founded by Indian American entrepreneur Mihir Shah in 2015, earlier raised $3 million from Aarin Capital and received a grant of Rs 50 lakh from Unitus Seed Fund. Its develop an affordable breast cancer screening device. “Cancer therapy is not one-size-fits-all, if you stratify them based on genomics, among other things. So you can tailor-make therapy, which are less harsh and for that early detection is very important.”, Kiran said. Her bet on UE’s iBreastExam device is based on the uncomfortable experience women face with mammograms. But Shaw calls UE’s scans “intellige...

This is a story of how a new medical adherence and management, TrackMyStack.com -- designed to help people manage their regimen for their health condition is helping patients quickly learn about alternatives for their treatment and discover other’s going through the exact same thing as them. About 125,000 deaths occur annually in the United States alone due to non-adherence to medical treatments. Now that I've got your attention (hopefully!) let me tell you more about what adherence means in this context, it means taking the right dose at the right time at the right frequency, consistently till required. The reason people become non-adherents is because they either forget to take their medication, run out of it, patients feeling like it is ineffective or because of side effects. The ...

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Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Invested in Two Cancer Startups

This Idea Can Save 125,000 Life in The United States Annually