Charlotte Emerging as a Global Leader in Health Care Innovation and Med Tech
Charlotte, long known as a U.S. financial hub, has launched The Pearl—a $75 million health‑care innovation district—in midtown in June 2025. The campus brings together IRCAD North America, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, global med‑tech firms, startup labs, and an AI‑driven clinical‑trial center. By co‑locating researchers, clinicians, and entrepreneurs, the district aims to accelerate surgical training, device development, and trial enrollment. Over the next 15 years the project projects $811 million in annual economic impact and creates thousands of jobs.
Determining the Cause and Severity of Sepsis with a Point-of-Care Test
In this episode of The Bio Report, host Daniel Levine interviews Tim Sweeney, CEO of Inflammatix, about the company's TriVerity point‑of‑care test that rapidly distinguishes bacterial from viral infections and gauges immune response severity in sepsis patients. Sweeney explains how...