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SXSW Online Announces 2021 Winners of 13th Annual Pitch Competition

SXSW Online Announces 2021 Winners of 13th Annual Pitch Competition

AUSTIN, Texas, March 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference today announced the winners of the 13th annual SXSW Pitch event, which took place virtually…

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Virginia Life Sciences Ecosystem Gets Boost from Essential Medicines-Focused Phlow, Civica Rx · BioBuzz

Virginia Life Sciences Ecosystem Gets Boost from Essential Medicines-Focused Phlow, Civica Rx · BioBuzz

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic greatly exposed a dearth of essential medications and significant vulnerabilities in the United States medical supply chain. Phlow Corporation aims…

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GSK to support manufacture of Novavax vaccine – EPM Magazine

GSK to support manufacture of Novavax vaccine – EPM Magazine

Under the agreement, GSK will provide ‘fill and finish’ manufacturing capacity at its Barnard Castle facility in the North East UK. Fill and finish…

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SEC Announces Dr. James Crowe Wins 2021 Faculty Achievement Award for Vanderbilt University – SECU | SECU

SEC Announces Dr. James Crowe Wins 2021 Faculty Achievement Award for Vanderbilt University – SECU | SECU

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (April 8, 2021) – Dr. James Crowe, Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine, has been…

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Test Created By Maryland Biotech Company Aims To Determine Severity Of Individual COVID Cases – CBS Baltimore

Test Created By Maryland Biotech Company Aims To Determine Severity Of Individual COVID Cases – CBS Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Testing remains a key factor in reaching the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, what happens if you test positive for…

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Meet Emmes Christine Dingivan, CEO and president of Emmes – Washington Business Journal

Meet Emmes Christine Dingivan, CEO and president of Emmes – Washington Business Journal

She calls herself a hotel brat — but she also owns an RV. Image: Dr. Christine Dingivan is president and CEO at Emmes. ©…

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Maryland Tech Council Receives $378,000 Federal Grant to Expand Task Force Advising Tech & Life Science Firms During COVID-19

Maryland Tech Council Receives $378,000 Federal Grant to Expand Task Force Advising Tech & Life Science Firms During COVID-19

FREDERICK, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Maryland Tech Council (MTC) announced today it will receive a $378,000 federal CARES Act grant to significantly expand its Business…

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Biomarkers under research could predict COVID-19 symptom severity

Biomarkers under research could predict COVID-19 symptom severity

In tiny tubes filled with strands of human DNA, Robert Figliozzi carefully extracts what could be breakthrough science in the fight against the coronavirus.…

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UMD-Led Research Could Point to New Targets for MS Treatments | A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland

UMD-Led Research Could Point to New Targets for MS Treatments | A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland

University of Maryland (UMD) bioengineers reached a new milestone in their efforts to design an immunotherapy strategy to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) and other…

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Behind the growing footprint of Maryland’s 55K-employee life sciences industry – Technical.ly DC

Behind the growing footprint of Maryland’s 55K-employee life sciences industry – Technical.ly DC

Long home to federal institutions like the National Institutes of Health and leading universities, suburban areas like Montgomery County have long been home to…

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CARB-X is funding Novel Microdevices to develop a rapid and portable diagnostic for sexually transmitted diseases including antibiotic-resistant infections – Carb-X

CARB-X is funding Novel Microdevices to develop a rapid and portable diagnostic for sexually transmitted diseases including antibiotic-resistant infections – Carb-X

(BOSTON) – CARB-X is awarding Novel Microdevices, Inc. of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, up to $3.6 million in non-dilutive funding, and, subject to available funding,…

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BHI Working with Montgomery County to Support Workforce Development Initiatives

BHI Working with Montgomery County to Support Workforce Development Initiatives

BHI is working with Montgomery College and Montgomery County to support their work growing and retaining the county’s workforce.  Did you know Montgomery College’s Germantown…

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Immediate Opening – SENIOR ANALYST (BioHealth Innovation, Inc.)

Immediate Opening – SENIOR ANALYST (BioHealth Innovation, Inc.)

BioHealth Innovation, Inc., (BHI) a non-profit organization which strives to facilitate the development of commercially viable bio health products and companies by connecting market…

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Immediate Opening – ANALYST (BioHealth Innovation, Inc.)

Immediate Opening – ANALYST (BioHealth Innovation, Inc.)

BioHealth Innovation (BHI) is an innovation intermediary that facilitates the commercialization of emerging technologies in the BioHealth Capital Region (Maryland, DC and Virginia).  We…

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Emergent BioSolutions On Track with Respect to COVID-19 Contractual Commitments; Receives Modified Task Order from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to Support the Opportunity for Further Expansion of Manufacturing Capacity for Johnson & John

Emergent BioSolutions On Track with Respect to COVID-19 Contractual Commitments; Receives Modified Task Order from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to Support the Opportunity for Further Expansion of Manufacturing Capacity for Johnson & John

GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) today announced that the Company continues to be on track with its…

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