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WHO approves AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use | Reuters

WHO approves AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use | Reuters

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday listed AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, widening access to the…

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Novavax Announces Expanded Collaboration and License Agreement with SK Bioscience for 40 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine for South Korea

Novavax Announces Expanded Collaboration and License Agreement with SK Bioscience for 40 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine for South Korea

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 15, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, and SK…

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AI Can Increase Efficiency in Healthcare, Even in a Pandemic | HealthTech Magazine

AI Can Increase Efficiency in Healthcare, Even in a Pandemic | HealthTech Magazine

Artificial intelligence is often depicted in popular movies and TV dramas as technology that is determined to take over the world. Just a few…

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Enormous ancient fish discovered by accident | EurekAlert! Science News

Fossilised remains of a fish that grew as big as a great white shark and the largest of its type ever found have been…

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How American universities can promote innovation: My long-read Q&A with Korok Ray | American Enterprise Institute – AEI

How American universities can promote innovation: My long-read Q&A with Korok Ray | American Enterprise Institute – AEI

A key component of America’s ability to innovate is its world-renowned system of higher education, which is the envy of the world.  owever, there’s room…

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For mRNA vaccines, COVID-19 is just the beginning | Hub

For mRNA vaccines, COVID-19 is just the beginning | Hub

Easy to manufacture and update, these new vaccines may be a powerful tool against emerging variants and other infectious diseases Even the experts were…

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Rockville’s Sensei Biotherapeutics’ IPO hits $133M – Washington Business Journal

It's the latest in a series of public offerings for Greater Washington life sciences companies. Image: John Celebi is CEO of Sensei Biotherapeutics RICHARD…

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BioHealth Innovation Adds Four NIH New Entrepreneurs-in-Residence

BioHealth Innovation Adds Four NIH New Entrepreneurs-in-Residence

 Renée JG Arnold, John Reinhart, Don Rose, and Kwame Ulmer join Diverse Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) Team   ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, February 8, 2021 – BioHealth Innovation…

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University of Maryland Research Enterprise Ranked Among Top 10 Publics in NSF Higher Education R&D Survey | UMD Right Now :: University of Maryland

University of Maryland Research Enterprise Ranked Among Top 10 Publics in NSF Higher Education R&D Survey | UMD Right Now :: University of Maryland

BALTIMORE and COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland achieved its highest ranking ever in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Higher Education Research…

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Immunomic Therapeutics’ CEO to present at the BIO CEO & Investor Digital Conference – Bloomberg

Immunomic Therapeutics’ CEO to present at the BIO CEO & Investor Digital Conference – Bloomberg

Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. (ITI), a privately held, Maryland-based biotechnology company, announced today that the company will present at the BIO CEO & Investor Digital…

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Exclusive: Johns Hopkins professor and biotech colleagues tout new tech to test Covid-19 vaccine response – Endpoints News

Exclusive: Johns Hopkins professor and biotech colleagues tout new tech to test Covid-19 vaccine response – Endpoints News

Vari ants to the SARS-CoV-2 virus have emerged of late as yet an oth er threat to a pan dem ic that’s al ready…

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Salisbury Award Competition – Spring 2021

Salisbury Award Competition – Spring 2021

The Rockville-based National Foundation for Cancer Research is accepting applications through February 28 from academic laboratory and early stage start-up-based promising oncology technology projects…

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Baltimore venture capital investor Catalio Capital Management launches new funding option – Baltimore Business Journal

The new funding operation will be led by a pair of investment industry veterans who previously worked at Brown Advisory. Image: George Petrocheilos (right)…

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GSK, CureVac to develop next-generation COVID-19 vaccines | Reuters

GSK, CureVac to develop next-generation COVID-19 vaccines | Reuters

FRANKFURT, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline and German biotech firm CureVac struck a deal to develop next-generation vaccines against COVID-19 that target several…

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5 People in the BioHealth Capital Region You Should Know In 2021 – BioBuzz

5 People in the BioHealth Capital Region You Should Know In 2021 – BioBuzz

2020 brought about a lot of growth across the BioHealth Capital Region (BHCR) as dozens of organizations responded with urgency to address the COVID-19…

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