BioHealth News Archive
Novavax Says Its COVID-19 Vaccine is 96% Efficacious | Time
Novavax reported on March 11 that its COVID-19 vaccine is 96% efficacious in reducing mild, moderate or severe disease. The Maryland-based company joins the…
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Children’s National leaders provide expertise and support to advance SHIP-MD pediatric innovation initiative | Children’s National
The advancement of children’s medical devices in the U.S. continues to significantly lag behind adult devices for many reasons. A dedicated group of public…
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SPAC Alexandria Agtech/Climate Innovation Acquisition files for a $250 million IPO | Nasdaq
Alexandria Agtech/Climate Innovation Acquisition, a blank check company formed by Alexandria Real Estate Equities targeting agtech and climate innovation, filed on Thursday with the…
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Quality, Speed & Equity: Delivering COVID-19 Vaccines to the World – Webinar Registration – Zoom
All eyes are on the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. Achieving the broad uptake needed to reach population immunity and curb the virus’s spread…
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Top 10 U.S. Biopharma Clusters (BHCR number 4 but metrics improved over 2020)
BIoHealth Capital Region Ranked 4th and metrics improving towards goals of Top 3 by 2023 Charles Dickens’ opening line of A Tale of Two…
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Inova and University of Virginia School of Medicine open new campus | Headlines | insidenova.com
After four years of extensive planning, Inova Health System and the University of Virginia School of Medicine this week opened the UVA Inova Campus,…
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MARYLAND KNOWS THE FUTURE IS QUANTUM
The University of Maryland is a powerhouse of discovery, with decades of experience advancing a field that will help define our nation’s—and the world’s—future.…
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Quantum computing company IonQ plans to go public. Here’s what it could mean for College Park – Technical.ly Baltimore
That’s the path for technology being developed by IonQ. The College Park-based company on Monday made official a deal to merge with special purpose…
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Researchers in a Virginia Lab Lay Groundwork for U.S.-Made Drugs – Bloomberg
One thing both the Trump and Biden administrations have agreed on is that the U.S. needs to expand domestic manufacturing, and soon. The pharmaceutical…
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Cartesian Therapeutics Initiates Phase 2 Clinical Trial of First RNA-Engineered Cell Therapy for Frontline Cancer · BioBuzz
Gaithersburg, MD, Feb. 22, 2021 – Cartesian Therapeutics, a fully integrated, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering mRNA-engineered cell therapy in and beyond oncology, today announced that…
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BioHealth Capital Region Women Making Waves in Venture Capital · BioBuzz
Improving access to venture capital for life science entrepreneurs and emerging biopharma companies in the BioHealth Capital Region (BHCR) is a top priority. However,…
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Where Americans Are Moving — and Why They Really Are Doing It
There's an old joke about economists that I've always liked. A junior professor goes to his senior colleague with a brilliant new idea. The…
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5 Questions with Destinie Burgan, Upstream Supervisor of Manufacturing, Emergent BioSolutions · BioBuzz
“5 Questions With…” is a weekly BioBuzz series where we reach out to interesting people in the BioHealth Capital Region to share a little…
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Inova Health System, University of Virginia open Northern Virginia campus – Washington Business Journal
The program, first conceived in 2016, puts the Charlottesville institution in Greater Washington and creates a new talent pool for the Falls Church-based organization.…
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Innovation alliance unveils new name and strategic plan for Western Virginia | Business Local | roanoke.com
Astrategic alliance has a new name — Verge — and a new vision of acting as the front door for an innovation economy that…
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