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Wound healing startup SironRX hires new CEO, gets OK on clinical trial

Regenerative medicine wound healing company SironRX Therapeutics has hired a first-time CEO as its first-ever, full-time CEO. Evan Facher most recently worked as general manager of Pittsburgh interventional operations with MedRad, a medical device company that’s an arm of Bayer HealthCare. In eight years with MedRad, Facher held a variety of roles that included business […]

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SironRX, QED each get $1M Ohio Third Frontier grant

Regenerative medicine startup SironRX Therapeutics and imaging company Quality Electrodynamics each received a $1 million grant from Ohio’s Third Frontier technology support program. The state doled out about $30 million in Third Frontier grants, with half that amount going to establish the  JobsOhio Network program, which consists of six regional groups intended to support state-wide […]

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Wound therapy company SironRX closes $3.4M series A investment

A regenerative medicine spinoff from the Cleveland Clinic that’s developing a wound healing treatment has closed a $3.4 million series A round of investment. SironRX Therapeutics will use the funding to begin clinical trials of its wound therapy technology and hire senior management and clinical staff, CEO Rahul Aras said. The round was led by […]

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Doubling down on regenerative medicine: Juventas and SironRX

Many business professionals likely dream of the day when they’ll run a company as chief executive, but how many hope to lead two startups simultaneously? As CEO of Cleveland-based regenerative medicine startups Juventas Therapeutics and SironRX Therapeutics, Rahul Aras is doing just that. Each company is developing therapies based off the same technology, a growth […]