BioHealth News Archive

Montgomery County wants to spur medical manufacturing to fight coronavirus – Washington Business Journal

Montgomery County wants to spur medical manufacturing to fight coronavirus – Washington Business Journal

The coronavirus outbreak has required all manner of businesses and government agencies to turn on a dime and think creatively — and the Montgomery…

Read More
Danaher raises $825M to pay down debts, days after closing acquisition of GE’s biopharma business – Washington Business Journal

Danaher raises $825M to pay down debts, days after closing acquisition of GE’s biopharma business – Washington Business Journal

Danaher Corp. (NYSE: DHR), the massive D.C. conglomerate of industrial and commercial manufacturers, said Wednesday it has raised $753.7 million euros, or the equivalent…

Read More
MARYLAND Business Relief Wizard

MARYLAND Business Relief Wizard

There are numerous local and national programs for businesses in need of emergency support, but understanding which options are relevant for your organization can…

Read More
David Rubenstein Interviews Economic Experts on COVID-19 – YouTube

David Rubenstein Interviews Economic Experts on COVID-19 – YouTube

The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. hosted its fifth virtual event on April 8, 2020. Club President David Rubenstein interviewed economic experts on the…

Read More
Biotech Beach Emergent BioSolutions Aims to Fight COVID-19 | BioSpace

Biotech Beach Emergent BioSolutions Aims to Fight COVID-19 | BioSpace

Biopharma companies are attacking the COVID-19 pandemic from many fronts. Emergent BioSolutions is among those leading the fight. The company has a proven track…

Read More
NIH begins study to quantify undetected cases of coronavirus infection | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH begins study to quantify undetected cases of coronavirus infection | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

A new study has begun recruiting at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, to determine how many adults in the United States…

Read More
Alexandria Real Estate Equities offering life science companies ‘Room to Grow’

Alexandria Real Estate Equities offering life science companies ‘Room to Grow’

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE:ARE), an S&P 500® urban office REIT, is the first and longest-tenured owner, operator, and developer uniquely focused on…

Read More
The Founder’s Field Guide for Navigating This Crisis — Advice from Recession-Era Leaders, Investors and CEOs Currently at the Helm | First Round Review

The Founder’s Field Guide for Navigating This Crisis — Advice from Recession-Era Leaders, Investors and CEOs Currently at the Helm | First Round Review

Leading a startup has always been challenging, even under the best conditions. Founders need to quickly master a tremendous range of skills, from building…

Read More
ITI Forms Collaboration with EpiVax & PharmaJet to Develop Novel Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 Using Its Investigational UNITE Platform – Immunomic Therapeutics

ITI Forms Collaboration with EpiVax & PharmaJet to Develop Novel Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 Using Its Investigational UNITE Platform – Immunomic Therapeutics

ROCKVILLE, Md. & PROVIDENCE, R.I. & GOLDEN, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering the study of nucleic acid…

Read More
3 lessons from Children’s National Hospital on rapidly setting up drive-thru COVID-19 testing | FierceHealthcare

3 lessons from Children’s National Hospital on rapidly setting up drive-thru COVID-19 testing | FierceHealthcare

Just as many schools around the nation began shuttering for the year last month due to the pandemic, top officials at Children's National Hospital…

Read More
Women’s Venture Competition – AIM-HI

Women’s Venture Competition – AIM-HI

The AIM-HI Accelerator Fund’s Women’s Venture Competition is a high-profile initiative among women-led oncology start-up companies or venture teams aspiring to soon establish such firms,…

Read More
Will JPM21 be safe to attend? Plus: Layoffs at Sage and a deal brokered over Zoom

Will JPM21 be safe to attend? Plus: Layoffs at Sage and a deal brokered over Zoom

Just three months ago, thousands of biotech types blotted out the streets of San Francisco for the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, four days of…

Read More
Pediatric Medical Device Pitch Competition Pivots to Virtual Format Amid COVID-19 Crisis · BioBuzz

Pediatric Medical Device Pitch Competition Pivots to Virtual Format Amid COVID-19 Crisis · BioBuzz

COVID-19 wasn’t about to stop the important work being done to meet the large unmet need for pediatric medical devices among patients younger than…

Read More
Daniels to Johns Hopkins community: ‘Our work continues’ | Hub

Daniels to Johns Hopkins community: ‘Our work continues’ | Hub

Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels shared a message with the university community today. The full text of the message is below. Dear Johns…

Read More
The DMV region’s life sciences sector jumped into the fight against COVID-19. Here’s why it could move quickly – Technical.ly Baltimore

The DMV region’s life sciences sector jumped into the fight against COVID-19. Here’s why it could move quickly – Technical.ly Baltimore

A new coronavirus was spreading in the U.S., and with social distancing orders going into place, talk immediately turned to finding a treatment that…

Read More