BioHealth News Archive
Life Sciences Industry On Uptick In Virginia
In February 2019, the French immuno-oncology diagnostics company HalioDx opened its first laboratory in North America. The five-year-old company, a Qiagen spin-off, selected Richmond,…
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Annual Research Symposium to Feature Keynote Address from NCI Scientist
On Tuesday, May 7, the Center for Biotechnology Education will hold its 14th annual research symposium. During the event at the Johns Hopkins University…
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Xconomy: Roche Spinout Nimble Therapeutics Bags $10M to Find New Peptide Drugs
For the past five years, Jigar Patel and a group of fellow Roche employees have been quietly developing drug discovery technology at the global…
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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, 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
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
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, 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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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