A look back at Medtech Insight’s 10 most-read Start-Up Spotlight stories in 2020 pointed to diverse interest among our readers focusing on orthopedics, innovations in cardiac surgery, portable ultrasound tech and digital tools for tracking vital signs and monitoring patients at home.

Private Company Watch: Neuron23, Neurogene and Locanabio each raised $100m or more, highlighting increased investor interest in novel approaches to neurological diseases. Also, CRO dMed raised $100m and MinervaX brought in $57m for its vaccine to protect newborns. 

Pfizer’s efforts to circumvent two US patents shielding Par’s Adrenalin (epinephrine) have again ended in failure, following a ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Allergy Therapeutics is keen to extend its early R&D pipeline into non-allergy areas through extending its tie-up with Saiba and DeepVax on their virus-like particle technology.