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How age affects vaccine responses

This is an interesting piece about a Nature publication from the Allen Institute in Seattle.

Related, Louisville, get to know Clareo Biosciences.

We know our immune responses change as we age. Clareo Biosciences' technologies can discover what is changing, what is heritable and how these changes impact immune responses. This is critical for understanding vaccine and therapeutic efficacy, and the development of autoimmunity in older populations. Pretty cool.

Biologistics

Remember the HealthTrackRx news about a month ago? Bioscience-related distribution or “biologistics.” Here’s a bit of a deeper dive on the sector in Louisville. And some related “why nots.”

Speaking of UPS…

According to Business First, UPS is the largest employer in Louisville.

Second? Norton Healthcare.

Mayor Greenberg’s 2023 Growing Louisville Together strategic plan reported that healthcare was Louisville’s largest industry by employment.

NIH funding

More in-house content. In 2024, Massachusetts General Hospital received $655,235,087 in National Institutes of Health [NIH] funding, 2.8x more than the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky. What independent hospitals in Louisville have received NIH funding? Click.

DTC market for obesity drugs

Bethanie Stein, PharmD, Segment President, Pharmacy, at Humana quoted in the Endpoints HealthTech newsletter.

In-home elder care 📈 

“Elder care is a ‘ticking time bomb that no one's talking about.’"

I feel like people are actually talking about it, but, yeah.

Health Innovation Meetup

Not networking. Building community.

“Community focuses on contribution over extraction.” Give. Don’t just take.

Show up. November 18. But register first.

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