Life Sciences : Buzz

Dr. Janine E. Janosky, vice president of the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron’s Center for Community Health Improvement, was one of eight national “Champions for Change” for prevention and public health. She was recognized during a ceremony at the White House earlier this week for her efforts to improve the health of Akron-area residents.

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Brecksville-based MOVABLE has raised $775,000 that it will use to ramp up sales and improve its products--colorful plastic wristbands designed to help people track how physically active they are, and software they use to access that data.

MOVABLE received $250,000 of that total from JumpStart Inc. The rest came from about a dozen individual investors. The company has raised $1.9 million since it was founded in 2011.

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