The University of New England recently signed its first intellectual property license agreement with Satya Diagnostics—a company that recently received $100,000 in MaineHealth Bonfire Funding to help it achieve its goal of improving cancer detection and treatment in communities across the world.
When our hematological malignancy testing pilot project began in Eldoret, Kenya, there seemed to be a mismatch in relation to progress in healthcare. The region, like much of sub-Saharan Africa, had been focusing on combatting infectious diseases such as HIV and malaria—which was much-needed—yet cancer care was under-resourced.
