Ohio
Your First Stop in Healthcare Innovation
Ohio is home to world-class research and development institutions, a strong history of successful healthcare ventures, and some of the most promising investment opportunities. JumpStart invests in, partners with, and prepares innovative, early-stage companies in Northeast Ohio for exponential growth.
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Research & Development Ohio has world-class research hospitals, research and development initiatives, industry leaders, and universities creating innovative healthcare technologies.
Research Labs, Collaboration Development Initiatives, & Industry Leaders Research Hospitals
Research Universities
Affymetrix
Akron Children's Hospital
Case Western Reserve University
Atrial Fibrilation Innovation Center
Akron General Medical
The Ohio State University
Austen BioInnovation Institute
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Ohio University
Battelle
Cleveland Clinic
University of Akron
Ben Venue
Cleveland VA Medical Center
University of Cincinnati
Center for Research Excellence in Molecular Cardiovascular Innovation
MetroHealth Medical Center
University of Toledo Medical Center
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Wright State University
Charles River Laboratories Functional Electrical Stimulation Center Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center Greatbatch Hitachi Integra Spine Kendle Medpace NAMSA Oakwood labs Philips Medical Systems Proctor & Gamble Health Sciences Institute Ricerca STERIS Corporation WIL Laboratories Bernstein Clinical Research Center Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center for Medical Education and Innovation at Riverside Cleveland FES Center Computational Medicine Center The Holzer Clinic Mayfield Clinic and Spine Institute OhioHealth Research and Innovation Institute Rogosin Institute The Biomedical Structural, Functional and Molecular Imaging Enterprise The Wright Center of Innovation in Biomedical Imaging
Ohio State University Medical Center Summa Health System University Hospitals The University of Toledo Medical Center
Ohio is home to more than 1,800 bioscience organizations with 62,500+ employees and an economic output of $61.6 billion. Biopharmaceuticals: Akebia Therapeutics • Arteriocyte
Medical Devices & Diagnostics: AxioMed Spine •
Medical Systems • AssureRx • Brainwashed • Cell Targeting
BioSys Medical • Branam Oral Health Technologies • CardioInsight
• ChanRx • Copernicus Therapeutics • Invasc Therapeutics •
Technologies • Cardiox • CerviLenz • Checkpoint Surgical • Clear Catheter Systems • Cleveland Heart • CleveX • Cryothermic Systems, Inc • DiraMed • Freedom Meditech • Future Path Medical • Great Lakes Pharmaceuticals • Intelect Medical •
Juventas Therapeutics • Milo Biotechnology • Neoprobe • Optivair • SironRx • SPR Therapeutics • Thermalin Diabetes Inc. • Thervasc • Tolera Therapeutics • Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals
Lyntek Medical Technologies • M2m Imaging • MDG Medical •
Healthcare Services & IT: ADS Biotechnology •
Minimally Invasive Devices • Mork Process • Nanostatics • NDI
Allostatix • Axiom • AnalizaDX • Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners
Medical • Neuros Medical • OrthoHelix Surgical Designs • Peritec •
• Click4Care • Clinical Outcomes Management Systems (COMS) •
PrevaHealth • Securus • Spineform • Synapse Biomedical • Syncro
CoverMyMeds • Endotronix • Enforcer eCoaching • Eris Medical
Medical Innovations • Synostics • Thermedx • Traycer • Turning
Technologies • Franklin & Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology •
Point LLC • Tursiop Technologies • Union Springs Pharmaceuticals •
GenomOncology • Healthcare Data Works • Laboratory Partners • Noteworthy Medical • OnShift • PartsSource • Rescentris •
VasoLux Microsystems • Vertebration • Vision Optimization
Simbionix • ViewRay • Vitality Distributing • Within3
Healthcare in Ohio Fast Facts
Ohio is ranked in the top
10 in biotechnology
On average,
In 2010, Ohio ranked
10th in the United
Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve
strength by Business Facilities.
States in attracting research funding from the
National Institutes of Health
16 Ohio hospitals are named in “America's Best Hospitals,” a list compiled by U.S. News & World Report
59 bioscience companies a year
establish their facilities in Ohio
University and the University of Cincinnati’s medical
school research programs rank in the nation’s top 50.
Company Highlights From Select JumpStart Portfolio Companies
CardioInsight Technologies Inc. is commercializing
CoverMyMeds has developed web- and phone-
a technology that can help guide the treatment
based tools that automate Prior Authorization (PA)
of heart disease, the number one cause of death
submissions for all drugs and all health insurance
in the United States. The company’s patented
plans. PA and other Coverage Determination
Electrocardiographic Mapping technology
forms are required after coverage of a patient’s
non-invasively generates 3D images of the
prescription has been rejected by their health
electrical activity of the heart by combining body
plan. Before CoverMyMeds, submitting PAs was a
surface electrical data with 3D anatomical data
manual and expensive process, and documents
obtained from CT scans. The real-time, whole
were sometimes never submitted, leaving
heart images of the electrical activity on the
patients without their necessary medication.
surface of the heart help physicians improve the
CoverMyMeds’ software tools cut the process
treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and congestive
Cervilenz Inc. is the manufacturer and distributor
to less than five minutes, a time reduction
heart failure. CardioInsight has conducted 275
of CerviLenz®— a simple, disposable medical
of at least 70 percent. CoverMyMeds and
patient studies, the results of which have been
device that measures cervical length in pregnant
RelayHealth recently joined forces to integrate
published in leading peer-reviewed journals and
women. Pregnant women with a short cervix
PA requirements into the electronic pharmacy
have demonstrated the technology's ability to
are at high risk of preterm birth and new
insurance claim system, making the process
guide treatment of arrhythmias and heart failure.
research shows that progesterone therapy during
even easier and faster.
CardioInsight has raised more than $10 million
pregnancy can dramatically reduce the rate of
and is preparing for commercial launch of its
For more information visit covermymeds.com.
preterm birth in pregnant women with a short
system in Europe in 2011, followed by a launch in
cervix. A quick, easy CerviLenz measurement
the United States in 2012.
identifies women with a short cervix who may
For more information visit ecgimaging.com.
need progesterone therapy or other high risk care. Prematurity is the leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality in the United States, affecting 12 percent of pregnancies. The estimated annual cost of prematurity is $26.2 billion in healthcare and related costs. For more information visit cervilenz.com.