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BioHive Ascends

Empowering the future of Utah's Life Sciences Industry

BioHive Ascends

Growing the next generation of Utah innovators, workforce, and companies means investing in today’s students.

Show your commitment by letting BioHive’s student chapters know how you want to inspire and support their career development.

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My internship at Denali helped me to not only hone my existing skills but also to develop new ones. My time as a Denali intern provided me with an opportunity to grow professionally and personally.

Intern, Summer 2021 // Denali Therapeutics

Opportunities

3Helix, Inc.

3Helix is a platform collagen company developing diagnostics for fibrotic conditions and advancing tissue regeneration science.

ARUP Laboratories

ARUP Laboratories is a national nonprofit and academic reference laboratory at the forefront of diagnostic medicine. They are a CAP-, ISO 15189-, and CLIA-certified diagnostic lab with 40 years of experience supporting clients through unparalleled quality and service. Their forward-thinking community of academic experts and consultants is here to empower clients with the most current industry knowledge and unparalleled guidance.

Blackrock Neurotech

Blackrock Neurotech’s mission is to provide innovative tools and neurotech expertise to translate technology into a novel, implantable clinical solutions that improve human lives.

Cūrza

Cūrza has developed a platform of distinctly unique compounds to attack the problem of AMR for some of the world’s worst antibiotic-resistant bacteria by selectively targeting a highly conserved site on the bacterial ribosome that has previously been undrugged.

Denali Therapeutics

Denali Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing a broad portfolio of product candidates engineered to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for the treatment of neurodegenerative and lysosomal storage diseases. Denali pursues new treatments by rigorously assessing genetically validated targets, engineering delivery across the BBB, and guiding development through biomarkers that demonstrate target and pathway engagement.

GlycoSurf

GlycoSurf is a specialty chemicals company that produces bio-inspired surfactants (biosurfactants) for a wide range of applications that require specialized surfactants. GlycoSurf's proprietary technology creates rhamnose-containing glycolipids that are high in purity, non-toxic, biodegradable, and chemically tailorable(i.e. rhamnolipids). Rhamnolipids and other biosurfactants are frequently used in the formulation of cosmetic or cosmeceutical personal-care products.

Halia Therapeutics

Halia Therapeutics is discovering and developing novel therapies to improve the lives of patients with inflammatory disorders and neurological diseases. They do this by advancing innovative medicines that target the immune system’s response to resolve chronic inflammation and eliminate the damage caused by aberrantly activated immune responses.

Intactis Bio Corp

Intactis Bio Corp is an intact tissue bioengineering corporation. Intactis Bio has developed and provisionally patented novel biomanufacturing methods, tissue culture equipment, and techniques to fabricate intact tissues. Intactis Bio’s first target is an engineered brain tissue for use in biocomputation and regenerative medicine.

Recursion

Recursion Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets.

Renew Biotechnologies

Through collaboration with healthcare and industry leaders, Renew Biotechnologies strives to equip researchers and providers with genomic and epigenomic tools that enhance decision-making and ultimately improve patient outcomes. Committed to revolutionizing clinical diagnostics, they launch specialized biotech companies, each dedicated to transforming healthcare one breakthrough at a time.

Seek Labs

Seek Labs is a company united by a vision to advance scientific discovery and universal solutions. Seek Labs strives to innovate healthcare solutions that bridge gaps between patients, providers, and treatments. Seek Labs is united by the passion of our founders and their shared beliefs that healthcare solutions should empower individuals and serve their specific needs.

Snow Canyon Therapeutics

Snow Canyon Therapeutics is reversing cellular damaged caused by chronic inflammation. Using a portfolio of small molecules, we are are reversing osteoarthritis - remodeling cartilage, type 2 diabetes - restoring insulin sensitivity, and cardiovascular disease - absorption of arterial plaque. Their novel molecules will change the way chronic inflammatory diseases are treated.

SoftCell Laboratories

SoftCell Laboratories is a CLIA-certified, high-complexity reference laboratory specializing in molecular diagnostic testing. Their mission is simple yet profound: to provide quality laboratory services that empower healthcare professionals and improve patient outcomes.

Scientia Vascular, Inc.

Scientia strives to serve humanity with medical solutions that disrupt the status quo. Through advanced technology and boundless creativity, they empower physicians to improve patient outcomes and redefine the possibilities of healthcare. They collaborate with medical professionals and employees in a shared mission to drive transformative change in the world of patient care.

Transit Scientific

Transit Scientific is a commercial-stage medical device company applying a breakthrough technology (14 patents issued/allowed, and 14 patents pending) to address unmet needs in the cardiovascular and vascular space. The company is based around a patient-first mentality with safety and clinical efficacy paramount to product success.

Wasatch BioLabs

Wasatch BioLabs (WBL) is an independent biotechnology company with a disruptive approach to diagnostics. We are an R&D and Oxford Nanopore Technologies-certified laboratory that offers DNA and RNA sequencing services to researchers and clinical service providers. WBL offers both standard Oxford Nanopore assay-based sequencing services as well as proprietary WBL targeted sequencing services that expand the capabilities of the nanopore platform.

Resources

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Helping shape and grow students' ideas into future healthcare innovation

Competitions

Bench-to-Bedside

Utah's premier health care innovation competition, the Bench to Bedside (B2B) program offers students from all backgrounds the opportunity to learn from health care professionals about the problems facing day-to-day patient care, and develop tangible, innovative solutions.

Intermountain Biological Engineering Conference (IBEC)

International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)

Multidisciplinary student teams from all over the world compete for medals and awards by designing, building, and testing projects using cutting edge synthetic biology.

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