BioHealth News Archive
Medtech venture backers play it safe | Evaluate
Of all the venture funding flowing into the medtech industry, a lower proportion than ever is being invested in companies at the start-up stage,…
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Task Force Holds Kick-Off Meeting, Affirms Support for Regional Collaboration to Tackle the Pandemic (BHI Proud to be a Member)
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 22, 2020 – Connected DMV’s COVID-19 Strategic Renewal Task Force held its kickoff meeting on Thursday and affirmed their support for…
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Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to begin phase II/III human trials | University of Oxford
The phase I trial in healthy adult volunteers began in April. More than 1,000 immunisations have been completed and follow-up is currently ongoing. The…
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Human trials of British coronavirus vaccine to reach 10,000 – CNA
REUTERS: Oxford University and AstraZeneca are recruiting around 10,000 adults and children in Britain for trials of an experimental coronavirus vaccine, a day after…
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Novavax Initiates Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial of COVID-19 Vaccine | Novavax Inc. – IR Site
GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today…
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FCC awards Children’s National $928K for regional pediatric telehealth consortium | EurekAlert! Science News
WASHINGTON - (May 21,2020) -- Children's National Hospital is establishing a regional pediatric telehealth consortium in response to coronavirus with $928,000 in funding awarded…
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Emmes Announces its Contribution to NIH ACTT Clinical Trial for Remdesivir | P&T Community
ROCKVILLE, Md., May 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Emmes today announced that its data and statistical analysis work for the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT) played…
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AstraZeneca Aims for 30 Million U.K. Vaccine Doses by September
AstraZeneca Plc will make as many as 30 million doses of coronavirus vaccine available to the U.K. by September and has committed to delivering…
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Creatv’s LifeTracDxTM Blood Test for Early Detection of Aggressive Prostate Cancer
ROCKVILLE, MD – May 19, 2020 Creatv MicroTech (Creatv), a cancer screening and diagnostic company with headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, is announcing a collaboration…
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60 Projects Funded by CARB-X so far…..
Since 2016, CARB-X has been funding and supporting the early development of innovative vaccines, rapid diagnostics, antibiotics and other life-saving therapeutics to address drug-resistant…
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Emmes Ranked as a Top Biosciences Employer in Greater Washington
ROCKVILLE, Md., May 18, 2020 - Emmes today announced that it was ranked as the seventh largest biosciences employer in the greater Washington area. The…
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Local Biotech Firms Say They Have Thousands Of Unused Coronavirus Tests | WAMU
When infectious disease expert Crystal Icenhour began offering COVID-19 testing last month at her Aperiomics commercial laboratory in Sterling, Va., she expected a flood…
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USM to resume ‘some’ in-person learning on campuses this fall, chancellor says – Washington Business Journal
University System of Maryland Chancellor Jay Perman said the system's colleges are "planning to resume at least some in-person teaching and learning" in the…
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Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients Recover Following Heart Cell Therapy
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center are planning a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate a form of allogeneic cell therapy for COVID-19, after four out…
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BioBuzz: Rockville, Maryland’s Sanaria at Center of an Unlikely Global Health Success Story – BioHealth Capital Region
In 2009, a remarkable partnership started with an unsolicited email and a “cold call.” Ten years later, Rockville, Maryland’s Sanaria and the Bioko Island…
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