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New development patterns likely to emerge in Maryland’s life science market

New development patterns likely to emerge in Maryland’s life science market

Available life science space is dwindling in Maryland's traditional life science core. Only six buildings currently offer space larger than 20,000 s.f. Space with…

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LifeSprout is moving into Port Covington manufacturing space – Technical.ly Baltimore

LifeSprout is moving into Port Covington manufacturing space – Technical.ly Baltimore

LifeSprout, makers of synthetic tissues for aesthetic and reconstructive medicine, is moving from Johns Hopkins‘ East Baltimore innovation hub into a manufacturing accelerator for…

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SoPE National Capital Chapter: The Titanic Effect: Successfully Navigating the Uncertainties that Sink Most Startups

SoPE National Capital Chapter: The Titanic Effect: Successfully Navigating the Uncertainties that Sink Most Startups

Wed, May 8, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT Inova Center for Personal Health, 8100 Innovation Park Drive, Conference Center, Fairfax, VA 22031…

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GlycoMimetics Aiming At Tough Targets

GlycoMimetics Aiming At Tough Targets

Startups may spring from pure academics or from a healthy and heterogenous mixture of science, business experience, and inspired thinking. Rachel King, CEO of…

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Precigen Opens Gene and Cell Therapy Manufacturing Facility in Germantown, Maryland

Precigen Opens Gene and Cell Therapy Manufacturing Facility in Germantown, Maryland

Precigen, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intrexon Corporation (NASDAQ: XON) and a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of innovative gene and…

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Hopkins-born startup LifeSprout moving into City Garage medical device accelerator – Baltimore Business Journal

Hopkins-born startup LifeSprout moving into City Garage medical device accelerator – Baltimore Business Journal

LifeSprout has eight employees and plans to hire more as it focuses on getting its first product through clinical trials. {iframe}https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2019/04/29/johns-hopkins-born-startup-lifesprout-moving-into.html{/iframe}

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NextCure files for IPO on Nasdaq Global Market – Washington Business Journal

NextCure files for IPO on Nasdaq Global Market – Washington Business Journal

The company is seeking to go public just three years after its founding. {iframe}https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/04/29/md-biotech-files-to-go-public-in-up-to-92m.html{/iframe}

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CoapTech Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Its PUMA-G System

CoapTech Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Its PUMA-G System

CoapTech LLC, a medical device company focused on delivering transformative solutions for minimally-invasive surgery, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

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Three biotechs reveal some secrets about themselves as they gun for $271M-plus in IPOs – Endpoints News

Three biotechs reveal some secrets about themselves as they gun for $271M-plus in IPOs – Endpoints News

Last week ended with another Friday night blitz of biotech S-1s as a fresh wave of new offerings forms to crash into Nasdaq. Entering…

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Universities earned just $75 million from IP in 2017, but spent $5.7 billion on R&D: Report – The Logic

Universities earned just $75 million from IP in 2017, but spent $5.7 billion on R&D: Report – The Logic

Canada’s top universities and research institutes spent $5.7 billion on research and development (R&D), but generated less than $75 million from licensing their innovations…

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How Redox Is Transforming The Way Healthcare Providers Share Data

How Redox Is Transforming The Way Healthcare Providers Share Data

Redox, a Madison, Wisconsin-based healthcare technology company that is transforming the way healthcare providers and software vendors share data, announced it has raised $33…

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Y Combinator to fund more startups pursuing small-molecule drugs – STAT

Y Combinator to fund more startups pursuing small-molecule drugs – STAT

The startup incubator Y Combinator plans to fund more early-stage drug makers, with a partnership designed to bring academic spinouts developing small-molecule drugs into…

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United Therapeutics Announces FDA Approval Of XPS™ And Steen Solution™ Used To Perform Centralized Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion Services | BioSpace

United Therapeutics Announces FDA Approval Of XPS™ And Steen Solution™ Used To Perform Centralized Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion Services | BioSpace

United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR) today announced that its collaborator, XVIVO Perfusion, Inc., a subsidiary of XVIVO Perfusion AB (STO: XVIVO), has received Premarket…

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GSK receives US approval of Benlysta for intravenous use in children with lupus aged five years and above | Antibodies | News Channels

GSK receives US approval of Benlysta for intravenous use in children with lupus aged five years and above | Antibodies | News Channels

GSK today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved, under priority review, the use of the intravenous (IV) formulation of…

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Sirnaomics closes Series C funding round – Washington Business Journal

Sirnaomics closes Series C funding round – Washington Business Journal

Sirnaomics Inc. has taken in yet another $11 million in investments, closing a Series C funding round that totaled $47 million. {iframe}https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/04/26/sirnaomics-closes-47-million-funding-round.amp.html{/iframe}

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