BioHealth News Archive

Merck to Acquire Maryland-based OncoImmune’s Promising COVID-19 Drug in $425 Million Deal · BioBuzz

Merck to Acquire Maryland-based OncoImmune’s Promising COVID-19 Drug in $425 Million Deal · BioBuzz

KENILWORTH, N.J., & ROCKVILLE, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and OncoImmune, a privately-held, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company,…

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NORTHPOND VENTURES: Harvard’s Wyss Institute Creates Research And Innovation Alliance With Northpond Labs | Business Wire

NORTHPOND VENTURES: Harvard’s Wyss Institute Creates Research And Innovation Alliance With Northpond Labs | Business Wire

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has established its first research and innovation alliance by joining forces with Northpond Labs, the…

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TIME Names Johns Hopkins’ COVID Dashboard A Top Invention Of 2020 – CBS Baltimore

TIME Names Johns Hopkins’ COVID Dashboard A Top Invention Of 2020 – CBS Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — TIME Magazine has named the Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 dashboard a top invention of 2020. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center…

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TEDCO, EcoMap are creating the Maryland Entrepreneur Hub for business-building resources – Technical.ly Baltimore

Maryland organizations are building an AI-powered web platform where entrepreneurs can find all of the resources available to them in the state. It’ll be…

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Registration for Pantheon 2020 | Recognizing Progress in an Unprecedented Year

Registration for Pantheon 2020 | Recognizing Progress in an Unprecedented Year

Pantheon 2020 on Thursday, December 3, will feature breakout sessions, including "Diversity & Disruption: How 2020 Will Make Life Sciences Stronger". Join us as…

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Assistant Secretary Robert Kadlec announces new BARDA Director=

Assistant Secretary Robert Kadlec announces new BARDA Director=

I am pleased to announce today the selection of Gary Disbrow, PhD, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and Director of the…

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AWE Project – Baltimore Accepting Applications thru 11/23

AWE Project – Baltimore Accepting Applications thru 11/23

The Achieving Women Enterprise Foundation is offering a local program cosponsored by TEDCO, the Sage Policy Group, and others which includes a 4 day…

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Fina Biosolutions Announces European Patent for Conjugate Vaccine Development – Proprietary method of producing CRM197 will be used to develop low cost, affordable vaccines for children and adults in developing nations

Fina Biosolutions Announces European Patent for Conjugate Vaccine Development – Proprietary method of producing CRM197 will be used to develop low cost, affordable vaccines for children and adults in developing nations

(Rockville, MD, November 10, 2020) – Fina Biosolutions LLC (“FinaBio”) is pleased to announce that it has received a Certificate of Patent entitled “Expression…

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Genetron Health moving HQ from North Carolina to Montgomery County – Washington Business Journal

Genetron Health moving HQ from North Carolina to Montgomery County – Washington Business Journal

Oncology company Genetron Health Inc. said Monday it is relocating its U.S. headquarters from North Carolina to Montgomery County. The Beijing company, which specializes…

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BARDA seeks nonprofit partner for BARDA Ventures: Catalyzing the 21st Century Cures Act and launching a new way to do business with HHS

BARDA seeks nonprofit partner for BARDA Ventures: Catalyzing the 21st Century Cures Act and launching a new way to do business with HHS

BARDA today announced a new type of public-private partnership, BARDA Ventures , that will realize authorities granted in the 21st Century Cures Act to…

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Billions Pour into BioHealth Capital Region to Battle COVID-19 · BioBuzz

Billions Pour into BioHealth Capital Region to Battle COVID-19 · BioBuzz

Over the past nine months, more than $7 billion in federal funding has poured into the BioHealth Capital Region aimed at the battle against…

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Korro Bio Appoints Ram Aiyar, Ph.D., MBA (former BHI Entrepreneur in Residence), as Chief Executive Officer | Business Wire

Korro Bio Appoints Ram Aiyar, Ph.D., MBA (former BHI Entrepreneur in Residence), as Chief Executive Officer | Business Wire

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Korro Bio, Inc., a biotechnology company developing single-base RNA editing therapies, today announced the appointment of Ram Aiyar, Ph.D., MBA, as its…

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Coronavirus vaccine

Coronavirus vaccine

Well just to lighten the mood I have just seen on my BBC news app that the Oxford University? Astra Zenaca group have just…

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BioNTech: the German biotech behind the coronavirus vaccine | Sifted

BioNTech: the German biotech behind the coronavirus vaccine | Sifted

BioNTech, the German biotech which announced an apparent vaccine to coronavirus on Monday, is a classic European startup story: created by Turkish immigrants, funded…

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Research Parks: Building the Region’s Innovation Ecosystem Tickets, Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite

Research Parks: Building the Region’s Innovation Ecosystem Tickets, Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite

Research parks and innovation districts historically have played important roles in development of innovation ecosystems in places like Silicon Valley, Boston, and North Carolina's…

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