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 positions, with some 150

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 employers.

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 To the business of health and a

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 potential life saving device:

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 A high tech cushion, created by

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 an Indiana nurse.

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 >>> It just felt like I was

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 sitting on a rock all day.

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 I could not relieve that pain.

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 >>> High tech wheelchair

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 cushion created by a Nashville

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 Indiana nurse is providing much

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 needed relief to people like

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 Cameron, the start-up just won

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 the National Women's fast pitch

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 competition at the women's

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 venture summit in San Diego,

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 business of health reported

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 Kyle Veleta I know a story

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 you've been following for a

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 long time.

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 >> Talking for years, good

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 traction, the cushion is built

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 to prevent bed stores, bed

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 sores cost the healthcare

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 industry, millions of dollars a

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 year, it creates a rolling wave

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 of low pressure to eliminate

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 hot spots by changing up the

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 pressure points that lead to

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 bed sores, a pumping action

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 also helps move blood from

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 behind the knees back toward

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 the heart and lungs to be

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 reoxygenated the start-up in

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 the middle of a 5 million

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 dollar fund raise, founder and

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 chief executive officer Jessica

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 busser says wave therapeutics

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 wins many competitions but this

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 one is particularly special.

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 >> The focus of the women's

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 venture summit is all about

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 women uplifting other women,

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 it's filled with women VCs and

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 angels who specifically, and

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 intentionally, invest in female

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 founders.

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 And the reason why that's so

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 important, is, as you probably

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 know, only between, about 3% of

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 all funding dollars go to women

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 and minority founders in the

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 United States, and this group

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 is actively trying to make a

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 change in that.

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 An Alzheimer's study at the I-U

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 School of Medicine is getting a

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 major boost with a nearly

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 50-million-dollar grant.

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 {VO}

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 It's the second largest grant

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 in

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 the school's history.

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 The money comes from the

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 National Institute on Aging,

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 which is the major federal

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 program that funds Alzheimer's

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 research.

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 I-U is already a nationally

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 recognized leader in the area,

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 ranking fourth in the U-S in

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 terms of funding from the N-I-H

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 for Alzheimer's research.

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 The recent dose of

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 48-million-dollars renews a

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 national program called MODEL

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 A-D, for another five years.

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 I-U is a major player in that

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 project, led by Dr. Bruce Lamb,

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 executive director of the Stark

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 Neurosciences Research

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 Institute.

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 >> Had the significance is

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 about really trying to

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 accelerate the therapeutic

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 pipeline for Alzheimer's

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 disease which is really the

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 intent of this program, is try

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 to develop models as well as do

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 preclinical testing so getting

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 therapies into animals, to

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 accelerate that process, we can

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 finally, of course, get

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 therapies into people.

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 Which is really what we're all

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 after.

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 >>>

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 Lamb says I-U is collaborating

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 with Eli Lilly and Roche

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 Diagnostics to tackle the

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 disease.

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 Lilly has an Alzheimer's drug

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 that will have its Phase 3

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 announcements next spring, and

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 Roche is developing new

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 biomarkers and diagnostics for

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 the disease.

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 >> The therapeutics thing is

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 great, Jessica who won the

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 $10,000 price interesting what

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 she did with the money.

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 >> I nerve heard of this, she

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 decided to take the investment

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 and split it among all the

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 finalists, taking a small piece