BioHealth News Archive
Why Investment And IP Clustering Is Key To An Innovative Future Across The Globe, With Joel Marcus
Joel S. Marcus is the Executive Chairman and Founder of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE:ARE), an urban office REIT and the first and longest-tenured…
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Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, helmed by Peter Greenleaf, expands into Rockville – Washington Business Journal
A Canadian pharmaceutical company is expanding into Rockville about a year after an executive with a long history in Maryland’s bioscience industry took the…
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Roche begins shipments of first 400,000 COVID-19 tests to laboratories across US to begin patient testing under FDA Emergency Use Authorization
INDIANAPOLIS, March 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that it has begun shipping the first allotment of its cobas® SARS-CoV-2…
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Startups developing tech to combat COVID-19 urged to apply for fast-track EU funding | TechCrunch
The European Commission put out a call Friday for startups and small businesses which are developing technologies that could help combat the COVID-19 outbreak…
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GeneDx Celebrates 20 Year History as Pioneer In Genetic Sequencing and Testing · BioBuzz
GeneDx, a global leader in genomics and patient testing, is celebrating its remarkable 20th anniversary throughout the month of March. The Gaithersburg, Maryland company…
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Study Shows How Mild Coronavirus Infection is Beaten by Immune Response
Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Australia have mapped immune responses in a patient in response to COVID-19 infection,…
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BHI portfolio company MockV Solutions led by David Cetlin acquired by Maravai LifeSciences
SAN DIEGO (March 17, 2020) – Maravai LifeSciences, a global provider of life science reagents and services to researchers and biotech partners, announced today…
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The Zidd and Fizz Show
Keeping angels and startups company while working from home! Great guests and great topics! The ZIDDANDFIZZ Show: Angels Talk Ziad Henry Moukheiber Faz Bashi…
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QIAGEN dramatically ramping up global production capacity for RNA extraction kits for use in detection of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
Hilden, Germany, and Germantown, Maryland, March 17, 2020 – QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced plans to dramatically ramp up global…
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Emergent Biosolutions will manufacture Vaxart’s experimental coronavirus vaccine in Baltimore – Technical.ly Baltimore
Gaithersburg-based Emergent Biosolutions on Wednesday said it signed a second agreement in a week that will bring manufacturing of a coronavirus vaccine candidate to…
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Cellphire Begins Phase 2 Trial of Thrombosomes® in Bleeding Thrombocytopenic Patients
ROCKVILLE, Md., March 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellphire, Inc., the global leader in long-term stabilization and storage of platelets, announced today that it has received…
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In Conversation: Sean Kirk, Emergent BioSolutions · BioBuzz
Following up on the recent article Two Maryland Biotechs Partner to Bring Coronavirus/COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate into Clinical Trials, BioBuzz had the opportunity to speak…
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Emergent BioSolutions Signs Development and Manufacturing Agreement with Vaxart for their Experimental Oral Vaccine Candidate for Coronavirus Disease – BioHealth Capital Region
GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Vaxart, Inc. (Nasdaq: VXRT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company,…
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Maryland company swamped with applicants to help assemble coronavirus test kits | wusa9.com
GERMANTOWN, Md. — German company Qiagen is racing to assemble new COVID-19 test kits. Already approved for use in Europe, Qiagen’s new kits are…
Read MoreCatching Up to Coronavirus: Top 60 Treatments in Development
Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), offered hope to the thousands of people with confirmed…
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