BioHealth News Archive
Fina Biosolutions Receives SBIR Matching Grant from Montgomery County, MD
Fina Biosolutions recently received a $25,000 Montgomery County SBIR/STTR Phase I matching grant to support its NIH SBIR grant focused on “Genetically detoxified tetanus…
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We shouldn’t care who wins the vaccine ‘race’ – The Washington Post
Regarding the June 4 front-page article “Cold War echoes in race for vaccine,” about the “race” among nations, notably the United States, China, and…
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Producing Enough Vaccine For The Coronavirus Means Companies Have To Start Now : Shots – Health News : NPR
Once upon a time, developing a new vaccine was a step-by-step process that went from concept, to design, to tests in humans, to regulatory…
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NIH announces $1 million prize competition to target global disease diagnostics
The National Institutes of Health has launched a $1 million Technology Accelerator Challenge (TAC) to spur the design and development of non-invasive, handheld, digital…
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Can you catch Covid-19 from someone without symptoms? — Quartz
On Monday, June 8, an official at the World Health Organization (WHO) made a surprising statement. People who have Covid-19 but are asymptomatic—meaning they…
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KaloCyte raises $300K from Maryland Momentum Fund – Technical.ly Baltimore
Less than a year after relocating its headquarters to Baltimore, biotech company KaloCyte has raised new funding from Maryland-based investors and expanded its local team.…
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PathSensors Inc. Announced the Completion of Phase I of a SBIR
PathSensors Inc., a Baltimore biotechnology company, announced today the completion of Phase I of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program funded by the…
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Covid-19 vaccine price controls would scare off developers, Fauci says at BIO – MedCity News
As multiple companies work to develop vaccines against the virus that causes Covid-19, it will be important for them to work with the federal…
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Johns Hopkins to resume on-campus lab research next week | Hub
Johns Hopkins University researchers will be permitted to resume on-site laboratory activities beginning next week, the first steps of a gradual resumption of on-campus…
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Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission Announces over $7 Million in awards to Accelerate Cures | MSCRF
COLUMBIA, Md. (June 5, 2020)— The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission (Commission) has approved funding to its second round of 2020 recipients for a total…
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SilcsBio and Dalriada Drug Discovery Launch Partnership to Create a Rapid Drug Discovery Service Suite | Press Release | I95 Business
June 11, 2020, Baltimore, MD and Toronto, ON – SilcsBio, a technology company that develops innovative software and provides services for structure-based drug design, and Dalriada Drug…
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2020 AURP BIO HEALTH CAUCUS – Supporting the Growth of Bio Health Innovation Districts Worldwide – RECAP
At AURP’s BIO Health Caucus, we explored trends in life science research, opportunity zone funding resources, the marriage of life science and philanthropy in…
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Immunomic Therapeutics to Present at AACR Virtual Annual Meeting II – Immunomic Therapeutics
ROCKVILLE, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. will present preclinical data on its investigational nucleic acid platform, UNITE (UNiversal Intracellular Targeted Expression), that elicits potent immune…
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AstraZeneca taps Emergent as U.S. partner for potential COVID-19 vaccine – Reuters
AstraZeneca has inked manufacturing deals globally to meet its target of making 2 billion doses of the vaccine, including with two Bill Gates-backed ventures…
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Covid-19 roundup: Fauci talks pricing, disparate impact and the virus’s enduring mysteries; China to offer experimental vaccines to overseas workers – Endpoints News
Multiple vaccines will ultimately be approved for Covid-19, NIAID chief Anthony Fauci told BIO yesterday, and the companies that make them should be allowed…
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