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FDA Commissioner Says Panel Must Review COVID Vaccine

FDA Commissioner Says Panel Must Review COVID Vaccine

JOHN WHYTE: You're watching "Coronavirus in Context." I'm Dr. John Whyte, chief medical officer at WebMD. Today I'm joined by Dr. Stephen Hahn. He's…

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Trump Administration Expands Collaboration With AstraZeneca to Develop and Manufacture an Investigational Monoclonal Antibody to Prevent COVID-19 > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE > Release

Trump Administration Expands Collaboration With AstraZeneca to Develop and Manufacture an Investigational Monoclonal Antibody to Prevent COVID-19 > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE > Release

To meet the Trump Administration’s Operation Warp Speed goals, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense (DOD) today…

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Can culture and community drive success? – Research & Development World

Can culture and community drive success? – Research & Development World

Not every research project succeeds. And not every company survives. However, the ones that align with the culture of winning and sign up and…

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Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich joins Rich Bendis on BioTalk

Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich joins Rich Bendis on BioTalk

Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich joins BioTalk to discuss his Career Path, the BioHealth Industry and plans to support the Industry in MoCo. Listen…

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Justin Yang, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Director of the DRIVe Catalyst Office, Joins Rich Bendis on BioTalk

Justin Yang, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Director of the DRIVe Catalyst Office, Joins Rich Bendis on BioTalk

BARDA Director of the DRIVe Catalyst Office, Justin Yang, Joins BioTalk to share how BARDA collaborates with the BioHealth Industry, partners with Incubators, and…

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How This Med Tech Startup Pivoted to Fight the Pandemic

How This Med Tech Startup Pivoted to Fight the Pandemic

Across the world in 2019, UNICEF reports that over 2.4 million infants died in their first month of life, the vast majority in the…

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Children’s National Hospital earns 2020 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired recognition | Children’s National Hospital

Children’s National Hospital earns 2020 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired recognition | Children’s National Hospital

Children’s National Hospital has received 2020 Digital Health Most Wired recognition by The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) as a certified level…

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FDA Grants GlycoMimetics Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Rivipansel for Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease – BioHealth Capital Region

FDA Grants GlycoMimetics Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Rivipansel for Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease – BioHealth Capital Region

ROCKVILLE, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 5, 2020– GlycoMimetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: GLYC) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the Company a Rare Pediatric Disease designation…

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The unsung mapmakers | Hub

The unsung mapmakers | Hub

In the early days of managing the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard, experts at the university and those at Esri, the company providing the mapping…

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Life Sciences Go Viral in Maryland

Life Sciences Go Viral in Maryland

When Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan visited Novavax recently, President and CEO Stanley C. Erck shared some welcome news for the governor publicly: Novavax had…

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Qiagen to Complement COVID-19 Testing Portfolio with Novel Kit That Simplifies and Accelerates PCR Analysis for Research – COVID-19 – Hospimedica.com

Qiagen to Complement COVID-19 Testing Portfolio with Novel Kit That Simplifies and Accelerates PCR Analysis for Research – COVID-19 – Hospimedica.com

QIAGEN N.V. (Venlo, Netherlands) plans to launch a novel straightforward approach to viral RNA epidemiology that will significantly simplify and accelerate PCR analysis and…

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Baltimore venture capital firm Catalio Capital Management closes $100M fund – Baltimore Business Journal

Catalio's portfolio includes many notable local biotech companies, including Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. and Thrive Earlier Detection Corp. Image: George Petrocheilos (right) and R.…

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First Patient Dosed in NexImmune Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial of NEXI-002 in Multiple Myeloma

First Patient Dosed in NexImmune Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial of NEXI-002 in Multiple Myeloma

GAITHERSBURG, MD -- October 6, 2020 – NexImmune, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a portfolio of unique non-genetically-engineered T cell immunotherapies, announced today that…

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This Maryland program will pair cyber researchers and entrepreneurial grad students to form startups – Technical.ly Baltimore

This Maryland program will pair cyber researchers and entrepreneurial grad students to form startups – Technical.ly Baltimore

Maryland universities are home to lots of cyber researchers and technologists working on new ways to secure our increasingly technology-reliant society. Those higher education…

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Pipeline – Immunomic Therapeutics

Pipeline – Immunomic Therapeutics

Our allergy assets remain an underpinning of Immunomic Therapeutics’ success, and have enabled our pivot to focus on oncology. In addition to our canine atopic dermatitis…

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