BioHealth News Archive
Bio Lab Pilot Project — MCEDC
The Bio Lab Pilot is a reimbursement grant program created by the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation (MCEDC) with funding support from the Maryland…
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Four biotech companies announce pricings of IPOs, looking to raise more than $300M – MedCity News
Four biotechnology companies were looking to raise a combined $303.9 million starting on Thursday as they announced Wednesday the pricings of their initial public…
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VideoKall, Inc. and MJ Biotech, Inc. Announce a Letter of Intent for a Strategic Partnership in Telehealth | LinkedIn
MJ Biotech, Inc. (f/k/a Michael James Enterprises, Inc.) (OTC: MJTV) announces that the Company has executed a Letter of Intent to explore a strategic…
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Virginia Outstanding Contribution to Life Science Inducts Three Award Winners
Virginia Bio, the premier statewide non-profit trade association representing the life sciences industry in the Commonwealth of Virginia, announced on May 2, 2019, during…
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Protenus raises $13 million in new funding round
Protenus, a Baltimore data security company, has raised $13 million in new equity financing, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange…
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The Rise of Bio Health Innovation Districts
By: Brian Darmody, CEO, Association of University Research Parks (AURP) Across the country and around the world, cities, research universities, government labs and other…
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New SBIR/STTR Rules Moving Forward – Lexology
On April 2, 2019, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a new Policy Directive for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the…
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BIO Continues Partnership with NIH for Fifth “Innovation Zone” Exhibit
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced an agreement to feature Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)-funded early-stage…
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VA researchers develop biomarkers, blood test that shows MS patients in relapse – EurekAlert! Science News
Dr. Horea Rus is an expert in diagnosing and treating patients with multiple sclerosis, and his research laboratory at the University of Maryland is…
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Gaithersburg-based Sirnaomics closes $47 million funding round – BioBuzz
Sirnaomics Inc. has taken in yet another $11 million in investments, closing a Series C funding round that totaled $47 million. The Gaithersburg biopharmaceutical…
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FDA approves first pediatric lupus treatment
The US FDA approves an extended indication of GSK’s lupus treatment, Benlysta IV, for children five years and older, giving pediatric patients a new…
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The Journey To Commercialization for a Novel Medical Device Startup: Q&A with Sonavex CEO, David Narrow · BioBuzz
In the past year Sonavex has landed not one, but two FDA 510(k) clearances for their ultrasound-based medical devices. This first of its kind…
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MedImmune-lite? Immunocore delves into British Big Pharma’s R&D talent pool, again | FierceBiotech
Bahija Jallal, David Berman, Koustubh Ranadel, and now Mohammed Dar lines up as the latest AstraZeneca/MedImmune executive to jump ship into U.K. biotech Immunocore.…
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Three Examples That Show Why NCI is a Goldmine of Blockbuster Technologies for Commercialization · BioBuzz
What do the technologies that led to the success of Kite Pharma, the creation of the pioneering immune-oncology cancer treatment avelumab (BAVENCIOⓇ) and the…
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Why Paragon Bioservices’ $1.2B acquisition deal matters to Baltimore – Technical.ly Baltimore
For Paragon Bioservices, news came quickly earlier this month. On a Thursday in mid-April, Gov. Larry Hogan and other state and county officials joined…
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