BioHealth News Archive
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
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
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? ?
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
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
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
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
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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The race to find a COVID-19 vaccine – CBS News
It's not an understatement to say that the entire nation's hopes are focused on what's happening in a Maryland laboratory – step one in…
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AstraZeneca leading the Covid-19 vaccine race; may get results quite early: WHO – The Hindu BusinessLine
The World Health Organization said on Friday that AstraZeneca's experimental Covid-19 vaccine is the world’s leading candidate and reached the final stage in terms…
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BioHealth Capital Region M&A Roundup First Half of 2020 · BioBuzz
It has been a tumultuous 2020 for venture capital and mergers and acquisitions due to the market uncertainty sparked by the onset of the…
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With cell and gene therapy boom coming, experts at Novartis, Kite trumpet need for capacity | FiercePharma
Cell and gene therapy has evolved into one of the biopharma industry's hottest markets, with a major splash of investment and a run of…
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Novavax Expands Executive Leadership and Announces Key Promotions | Novavax Inc. – IR Site
GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced…
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MedTech Innovator Announces Top 50 Medtech Startups Selected for Annual Showcase and Accelerator | Business Wire
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MedTech Innovator, the premier nonprofit accelerator in the medical technology industry, today announced the 50 companies selected to participate in the organization’s…
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Charles Andres and Christian Barrow join BioTalk to discuss investing, growth and the BioHealth Capital Region during COVID-19
Charles Andres, Ph.D., RAC, Associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Christian Barrow, Executive Director, Life Sciences Banking at JP Morgan, join Rich…
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