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One of the biggest challenges in bringing a new drug to market is recruiting and retaining patients to participate in the FDA-required clinical trials.

Most trials require patients to travel to a brick-and-mortar site, which can be a burden. On top of that, 30% of patients are likely to drop out before the trial is over.

Jeeva Informatics — a RAMP startup participating in our Spring 2021 Health & Life Sciences Cohort — seeks to solve this with a technology that helps pharmaceutical companies navigate these challenges.

Led by founder and CEO Harsha Rajasimha and director of business development Sharlene Brown, Jeeva’s cloud-based software reduces patient recruitment time and drop-out rates, and by facilitating trials at a patient’s home, increases compliance by reducing the traditional travel burden.

More at https://jeevatrials.com.

Like cascading dominoes, Robert’s life was falling apart.

His diabetes was out of control, resulting in episodic shocks that cost him his driver’s license. No longer able to get out and about, he became a shut-in, which led to a severe depression.

Thankfully there was Kinergy Care, a healthcare coaching and coordination service founded by Gail Embt and led by Arthur Spivy that is one of RAMP’s four startups in our 2021 Spring Health & Life Science Cohort.

Currently based in McLean with plans to move to Roanoke, Kinergy Care has designed a platform to better track and manage patients across acute, ambulatory and home care settings, expertly guiding a non-clinical community health worker at every step in delivering care coaching and coordination, enabling a cost effective and scalable solution.

For Robert, Kinergy Care’s community health workers and care navigators engaged him in getting his diabetes under control and his license reinstated, which lifted his depression.

More at http://kinergycare.com.

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March 15, 2021 (Roanoke, Va.) – Entrepreneurs developing therapeutic peptides from cow milk are among the three startup companies from around Virginia invited to RAMP’s Spring 2021 cohort focused on health and life sciences.