A Weekend MBA student’s health-care startup aims to improve IVF and other medical procedures by removing the need for needles. While in high school in California, Tianyi Jonathan Xing heard about a Tibetan nun temple destroyed by a mudslide, leaving occupants without a home or belongings. Disturbed by what he saw as an inadequate response to their predicament, Xing collaborated with a famous Chinese music producer, Feng Xiao’bo, to publicize the nuns’ plight. “People easily d

“How many of you are afraid of needles?” Alina Su asks her audience as she begins the pitch for her new company NovaXS Biotech. The audience shift in its seats. Most people raise their hands. “(Now) imagine you have to inject yourself with needles 1,000 times (over) three years.” Alina goes on to explain that she watched her sister endure this daily agony starting at the age of seven. Suddenly, the audience is in her shoes — imagining what it might be like if they, or a famil

Formed at the University of California, Berkeley, NovaXS designed its patent-pending Telosis technology to administer a narrow stream of medication without a needle in 0.3 seconds and to analyze injection data to allow for smarter health decisions. The company said in a news release that its technology represents the world’s first remote medication and self-administration monitoring platform as an easy and painless alternative for at-home drug delivery. The first indication b