BioHealth News Archive
Emergent BioSolutions Adding Approximately 300 Jobs After New COVID-19 Vaccine Contracts
Business is booming for Emergent BioSolutions as it has assisted in the country’s push to create COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. Emergent is developing two…
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Emergent BioSolutions Enters Viral Vector And Gene Therapy Arena – Contract Pharma
Emergent BioSolutions has unveiled plans to strengthen its contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) capabilities by expanding into viral vector and gene therapy. The company…
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Lockheed’s ventures arm backs quantum computing and training tech firms — Washington Technology
Lockheed Martin Ventures -- the defense company’s technology startup investment arm -- has backed two companies through separate avenues announced this week. In a…
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Glyscend Therapeutics Completes $20.5M Financing Round to Advance Novel Oral Polymer Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes
BALTIMORE, June 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Glyscend Therapeutics, a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing novel treatments for type 2 diabetes (T2D) and related…
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BioHealth Capital Region Spotlighted at RESI
The BioHealth Capital Region featured at last week’s Redefining Early Stage Investments Conference (RESI) where speakers from the region discussed a range of topics…
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Creatv Announces Ability to Predict Immunotherapy Treatment Response for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) using a Simple Blood Test | Business Wire
ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Creatv Microtech, a privately-held biotechnology company has pioneered a blood test to predict treatment response in patients with stage II-III NSCLC treated…
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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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