Mount Pleasant life sciences startup named SCRA member company

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A Mount Pleasant-based life sciences company is one of two new member companies with the South Carolina Research Authority.

All SCRA member companies receive coaching and access to SCRA’s Startup Resources, can apply for grant funding, and have the potential to be considered for investment from SCRA’s investment affiliate, SC Launch Inc., according to a news release.

Efferent Labs Inc. is a Mount Pleasant-based life sciences startup offers a live, cellular data acquisition platform for preclinical research, the release stated. The platform, CytoComm, allows the researcher to prescribe the target of interest after a sensor is implanted within an animal, providing real-time molecular-level data.

In addition, EHG South Inc. received a $50,000 federal matching grant, according to the release. The Columbia-based information technology startup’s platform, Momento Care, provides a web application that allows providers to support hypertension and HIV medicine management for large groups of patients in little time. The app combines pill reminders with motivational and educational text messages sent directly to the patient’s cell phone.

Lucie Medical Inc. has also been accepted as an SCRA member company. Spartanburg-based medical device startup has developed a first-of its kind approach to decrease the most common preventable cause of maternal morbidity and mortality, the release stated. The device is intentionally designed to meet the user needs in both developed countries and low- and middle-income countries where over 70,000 women die each year.

Grant funding is made possible, in part, by SCRA’s tax credit program, the Industry Partnership Fund, and its contributions that fuel the state’s innovation economy, the release stated.. Contributors to the IPF receive a dollar-for-dollar state tax credit, making it an easy and effective way to help one of the fastest-growing segments of the South Carolina economy. Grant funding for Member Companies creates a direct, positive economic effect and job creation.