A University Hospitals Case Medical Center spinoff company is hoping to raise seed funding to develop the third-generation prototype of a device that uses near-infrared light to treat psoriasis.Akron, Ohio-based Fluence Therapeutics is developing a drug-device combination that would employ a process known as photodynamic therapy to treat moderate to severe psoriasis, an inflammatory skin [...]

Two Northeast Ohio start-ups that are developing treatments for psoriasis and for people who have trouble swallowing are getting $25,000 grants from the Innovation Fund of the Lorain County Community College Foundation.Fluence Therapeutics Inc. in Akron, which has licensed photodynamic therapy technology from University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, is developing both a [...]

News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:University Hospitals Case Medical Center’s first spinoff company Fluence Therapeutics Inc. recently opened in the downtown Akron Global Business Accelerator on South Main Street, the Akron Beacon Journal reported. The start-up comes from more than 20 years of research on a psoriasis treatment known as photodynamic therapy [...]

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has spun off Fluence Therapeutics Inc., licensing to the company photodynamic therapy technology for the treatment of psoriasis and other skin diseases.