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NEA Partner, Sara Nayeem, M.D., Joins Rich Bendis on BioTalk – Biohealth Innovation

NEA Partner, Sara Nayeem, M.D., Joins Rich Bendis on BioTalk – Biohealth Innovation

New Enterprise Associates Partner, Sara Nayeem, M.D., Joins Host Rich Bendis to Discuss Her Career, Venture Capital, and BioPharma Sara Nayeem, M.D., is a…

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Adaptive Phage Therapeutics Completes $7M Financing Round with Several Strategic Investors · BioBuzz

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics Completes $7M Financing Round with Several Strategic Investors · BioBuzz

GAITHERSBURG, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company founded to provide an effective therapeutic response to the global rise of multi-drug resistant (MDR)…

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Happening at the #BioInnovationConference

Happening at the #BioInnovationConference

Happening now at the #BioInnovationConference, Henry Ahn of National Science Foundation (NSF), Joseph Naft of #MIPS, Judy Costello of BioHealth Innovation, Inc. , Paul…

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Johns Hopkins researcher Gregg Semenza wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Hub

Johns Hopkins researcher Gregg Semenza wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Hub

Gregg L. Semenza, whose discoveries on how cells respond to low oxygen levels have the potential to result in treatments for a variety of…

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Editas Medicine and MaxCyte Announce Clinical and Commercial License Agreement for Engineered Cell Medicines Nasdaq:EDIT

Editas Medicine and MaxCyte Announce Clinical and Commercial License Agreement for Engineered Cell Medicines Nasdaq:EDIT

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Editas Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDIT), a leading genome editing company, and MaxCyte, Inc.,…

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Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to 3 for Work on Cells and Oxygen – The New York Times

Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to 3 for Work on Cells and Oxygen – The New York Times

The prize was awarded to William G. Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their work in discovering how cells sense…

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Why Baltimore rose to the ‘top of the list’ when this biotech team needed a new HQ – Technical.ly Baltimore

Why Baltimore rose to the ‘top of the list’ when this biotech team needed a new HQ – Technical.ly Baltimore

Research and startups are each important ingredients as the University of Maryland, Baltimore works to build a biotech community. In the case of recent…

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MIMETAS and Hubrecht Organoid Technology to develop and market Organoids-on-a-Chip | Mimetas

MIMETAS and Hubrecht Organoid Technology to develop and market Organoids-on-a-Chip | Mimetas

Leiden, Utrecht October 2019 MIMETAS and Hubrecht Organoid Technology (HUB) announce that they entered into a strategic collaboration to market organoid models on a…

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Investment Conference Seeks to Expand Venture Capital Access in Biohealth Capital Region · BioBuzz

Investment Conference Seeks to Expand Venture Capital Access in Biohealth Capital Region · BioBuzz

The second annual BHCR Investment Conference, which is an invitation-only event, will be held at AstraZeneca in Gaithersburg on October 15 and 16, 2019.   …

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NIH to fund hubs to accelerate development of biomedical health technologies | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH to fund hubs to accelerate development of biomedical health technologies | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $20 million to fund five additional hubs designed to speed up the translation of biomedical discoveries into…

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Emergent BioSolutions awarded NIH grant for opioid treatment – Homeland Preparedness News

Emergent BioSolutions awarded NIH grant for opioid treatment – Homeland Preparedness News

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded Emergent BioSolutions a $6.3 million research grant for further development of the company’s treatment for opioid…

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Maryland BioHealth Leaders Come Together to Share Solutions for Attracting & Retaining Top Talent · BioBuzz

Maryland BioHealth Leaders Come Together to Share Solutions for Attracting & Retaining Top Talent · BioBuzz

Attracting talent is one of the most commonly cited challenges voiced by company executives in the Biohealth Capital Region (BHCR). Rapid growth, particularly in…

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2019 FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional Award Winners Announced | Federal Labs

2019 FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional Award Winners Announced | Federal Labs

The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for Technology Transfer Mid-Atlantic Region is pleased to announce the following winners of its 2019 awards:   {iframe}https://www.federallabs.org/news/2019-flc-mid-atlantic-regional-award-winners-announced{/iframe}

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Johns Hopkins – 2019 Outstanding Recent Graduate Award

Johns Hopkins – 2019 Outstanding Recent Graduate Award

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Monica Lopez will receive from the President of Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association…

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Arcellx Raises $85 Million in a Series B Financing to Advance its Intelligent Cell Therapy Platform

Arcellx Raises $85 Million in a Series B Financing to Advance its Intelligent Cell Therapy Platform

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct. 03, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arcellx, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has raised $85 million in an oversubscribed…

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