From a field of highly worthy candidates ranging from herpes treatment to ovarian cancer research, the Patent of the Month for September goes to HealthSpan Solutions of Little Rock.

The BioVentures initiative at UAMS held its fourth-annual Private Equity Roundtable May 13-14 in Little Rock. The forum allowed BioVenture’s biotech startups to pitch their technologies and services to national venture capitalists.

Want to stand out among a field of promising startups? Then hand out custom breast prosthetics to a group comprised mostly of middle-aged men. That’s exactly what ContourMed CEO Susan Cassidy did.

It’s not often one gets the chance to compare biotech startups to cattle. But Mike Douglas was not unlike a cattleman taking his prize bulls to market last week.