BioHealth News Archive
2/28 Deadline to Apply for $ (oncology innovation)…
for The Rockville-based National Foundation for Cancer Research is accepting applications through Sunday evening, February 28, from academic laboratory and early stage start-up-based promising…
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Salisbury Award for Entrepreneurial Translational Research – NFCR
The National Foundation for Cancer Research is proud to present the Salisbury Award in honor of the Salisbury family’s vision and legacy of funding…
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Cartesian Therapeutics Initiates Phase 2 Clinical Trial of First RNA-Engineered Cell Therapy for Frontline Cancer – Cartesian
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…
Read MoreNovavax Completes Enrollment of PREVENT-19, COVID-19 Vaccine Pivotal Phase 3 Trial in the United States and Mexico | Novavax Inc. – IR Site
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced…
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Eyedea Medical Joins Baltimore’s LaunchPort™ Medtech Venture Center
The LaunchPort™ announced today that Eyedea Medical (https://www.eyedeamedical.com/) joined the Venture Center and will make the Port Covington, Baltimore location their HQ and engineering…
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John Mumm, CEO of Deka BioSciences, joins Rich Bendis on BioTalk
Deka BioSciences CEO, John Mumm, CEO of Deka BioSciences, virtually guests on BioTalk to discuss his history in the BioHealth Capital Region, Precision Medicine,…
Read MoreMaryland Today | Pandemic Fighter’s Priorities
One of the nation’s leading scientists in the desperate campaign to develop coronavirus vaccines—and in the Hollywood-esque triumph of succeeding within a year—grew up…
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5 Questions with Paul Nolde, Fund Manager/Managing Director, Riverflow Growth Fund · 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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Novavax Expands COVID-19 Collaboration and License Agreement with SK Bioscience | BioPharm International
On Feb. 15, 2021, biotechnology company Novavax and SK Bioscience, a vaccine business subsidiary of SK Group, announced an expanded collaboration and license agreement…
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Internship pipeline helps close the equity gap during pandemic | Hub
Lubna Azmi sees herself as a laidback person, but even she isn't immune to the pressures and anxieties that come with planning for the…
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AstraZeneca’s Joe Sanchez Shares Vision for Growing the BioHealth Capital Region · BioBuzz
When AstraZeneca (AZ) announced in 2019 that it was officially retiring the MedImmune brand, questions naturally arose about whether the U.K. pharma giant would…
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Seven Successful BioHealth Companies Led by African-American Entrepreneurs and Industry Leaders · BioBuzz
As we noted in our previous story, “Diversity in Biotech, Industry’s Next Big Challenge,” there is a deep, rich, underappreciated history of African-American innovation…
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Prostate Cancer-Detecting Dogs’ Olfactory Capacity Trains Neural Network for Combination Diagnostic Approach
Research by an international team of investigators has demonstrated the ability of trained dogs to detect aggressive prostate cancer from urine samples, and suggests…
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JAMA Highlights Success of BrainScope’s EEG-based Concussion Index As Reliable Indicator of Concussion
BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- JAMA Network Open has published "Validation of a Machine Learning Brain Electrical Activity-Based Index to Aid in Diagnosing Concussion Among Athletes,"…
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This Office REIT Is Helping Beat Back the Global Pandemic | Millionacres
Most office buildings around the country have remained empty over the past year as companies quickly pivoted to working remotely to help slow the…
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