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FDA Announces First of Its Kind Pilot Program to Communicate Patient Reported Outcomes from Cancer Clinical Trials | FDA

FDA Announces First of Its Kind Pilot Program to Communicate Patient Reported Outcomes from Cancer Clinical Trials | FDA

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today launched Project Patient Voice, an initiative of the FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE). Through a new…

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Scientific Engagement Lead JLABS @ Washington, DC in Washington, District of Columbia | Non Operating Companies

Scientific Engagement Lead JLABS @ Washington, DC in Washington, District of Columbia | Non Operating Companies

Johnson & Johnson Innovation is recruiting a Scientific Engagement Lead of Johnson & Johnson Innovation JLABS.  The goal of Johnson & Johnson Innovation is…

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Scott Plank’s newest venture is in the world of organ transplantation – Baltimore Business Journal

Scott Plank’s newest venture is in the world of organ transplantation – Baltimore Business Journal

Scott Plank's latest investment is in a company that aims to solve logistical challenges within the organ transplant industry. MediGO offers a hardware and…

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Novavax charges ahead with $200M, David Mott appointed to board – Washington Business Journal

Novavax charges ahead with $200M, David Mott appointed to board – Washington Business Journal

Novavax Inc. plans to advance its Covid-19 vaccine candidate with new additions to the company and about $200 million in new funds from selling…

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HemoShear Therapeutics Receives FDA Clearance of IND for Phase 2 Study of its Investigational Drug HST5040 for the Treatment of Methylmalonic Acidemia and Propionic Acidemia

Charlottesville, Va., June 24, 2020 –  HemoShear Therapeutics, a clinical stage company developing treatments for rare metabolic disorders, has received clearance from the U.S. Food and…

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Replicate Bioscience and Immunomic Therapeutics Form Collaboration to Combat Infectious Diseases and Cancers | Business Wire

Replicate Bioscience and Immunomic Therapeutics Form Collaboration to Combat Infectious Diseases and Cancers | Business Wire

ROCKVILLE, Md. & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Replicate Bioscience, Inc. (“Replicate”), a privately-held biopharmaceutical company creating novel treatments to prevent drug resistance in cancers, and Immunomic…

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NIIMBL Announces Nine Project Recipients of $8.9M in Pandemic Response Efforts

NIIMBL Announces Nine Project Recipients of $8.9M in Pandemic Response Efforts

NEWARK, Del., June 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmacueticals (NIIMBL) announces that they have identified nine projects to…

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How telemedicine can help close the maternal health gap | Healthcare IT News

How telemedicine can help close the maternal health gap | Healthcare IT News

In 2012, there were fewer than 1,400 maternal-fetal medicine specialists in the United States, and 98% resided inmetropolitan areas. This left pregnant patients in…

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VC fund focused on biotechnology startups spins out of Camden Partners – Baltimore Business Journal

VC fund focused on biotechnology startups spins out of Camden Partners – Baltimore Business Journal

George Petrocheilos and R. Jacob Vogelstein have left Camden Partners to continue to lead the newly independent fund as its managing partners. Image: George…

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AsclepiX Therapeutics Announces $35 Million Series A Financing | AsclepiX Therapeutics

AsclepiX Therapeutics Announces $35 Million Series A Financing | AsclepiX Therapeutics

BALTIMORE, MD, June 24, 2020 – AsclepiX Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that uses computational biology to identify potent peptide regulators of vascular homeostasis…

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Summer, is that you? ?

Summer, is that you? ?

Dear Innovator, Happy Pride Month! It's hard to believe it's almost July. While we're facing many challenges here in both Washington, DC and in…

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Children’s National, NCC-PDI hold medical device competition for COVID-19 innovations – Today’s Medical Developments

Children’s National, NCC-PDI hold medical device competition for COVID-19 innovations – Today’s Medical Developments

In response to medical data highlighting the serious impact of COVID-19 on children’s health, Children's National is partnering with the National Capital Consortium for Pediatric…

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Virtual PitchRounds – BioPharma and MedTech Innovation

Virtual PitchRounds – BioPharma and MedTech Innovation

Southeast Life Sciences, the organization behind 400 presentations, 790 funding transactions, and $5.2B in investments from 500 distinct investors is going virtual for a…

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Altimmune Receives Award from U.S. Department of Defense to Fund Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial of T-COVID™ in Outpatients with Early COVID-19 | BioSpace

Altimmune Receives Award from U.S. Department of Defense to Fund Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial of T-COVID™ in Outpatients with Early COVID-19 | BioSpace

GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Altimmune, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALT), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced it was awarded $4.7 million from…

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Center for Innovative Technology names this year’s grant recipients – The Virginian-Pilot – Inside Business

Center for Innovative Technology names this year’s grant recipients – The Virginian-Pilot – Inside Business

A drug company trying to save infants’ lives, a university center protecting hospitals from hackers, a tech company building extreme drones: three groups in…

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