Antibiotic incentives, vaccine strategies, drug pricing, patent updates and more hot topics from the Biotechnology Innovation Organization's recent annual conference.

This Month's Profile Group: Medtech Start-Ups Battle Advanced Skin Cancer With Innovative Technologies, features profiles of OncoSec, Sensus Healthcare, and Siva Therapeutics. Plus these Start-Ups Across Health Care: Avillion, CardioLogical Solutions, Fixes 4 Kids, RenovoRx, and Savant HWP.

The founders of Savant HWP Inc. believe they have identified a molecule that could prove effective in treating many kinds of substance as well as behavioral addictions, because it appears to influence relevant brain chemistry at a fundamental level. Its compound binds to the alpha-3-beta-4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and appears to indirectly regulate production of dopamine in the mid-brain.