BioHealth News Archive

BHI Entrepreneur-in-Residence Feedback Session – March 20th

BHI Entrepreneur-in-Residence Feedback Session – March 20th

Are you a start-up in Maryland, DC or Virginia seeking feedback on your biohealth business idea, pitch deck, or commercialization plan?  Sign up by…

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Strong interest in Non-Dilutive Funding Programs

Strong interest in Non-Dilutive Funding Programs

More than 120 people registered for last week’s SBIR Workshop organized by BioHealth Innovation in partnership with Launch Workplaces and support from TEDCO and…

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State Department awards Emergent BioSolutions contract for chemical warfare countermeasures – Homeland Preparedness News

State Department awards Emergent BioSolutions contract for chemical warfare countermeasures – Homeland Preparedness News

Emergent BioSolutions announced today that the company has signed a deal with the U.S. Department of State to establish a supply chain for certain…

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NEA is raising its biggest fund ever – – again – TechCrunch

NEA is raising its biggest fund ever – – again – TechCrunch

New Enterprise Associates, the 41-year-old venture firm with offices in Menlo Park; San Francisco; Boston; New York; Chevy Chase, Md.; and Washington, D.C., is…

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Alexandria RE Equities Launches ‘GradLabs’ Product in San Diego | GlobeSt

Alexandria RE Equities Launches ‘GradLabs’ Product in San Diego | GlobeSt

Office REIT Alexandria Real Estate Equities reports it has launched a new product geared to providing post-seed-stage life science companies with turnkey, fully furnished…

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MaxCyte Announces Multi-Drug Clinical & Commercial Agreement with Kite, a Gilead Company

MaxCyte Announces Multi-Drug Clinical & Commercial Agreement with Kite, a Gilead Company

MaxCyte, the global cell-based medicines and life sciences company, announced today that it has expanded its relationship with Kite, a Gilead Company, by entering…

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A $100 Genome Within Reach, Illumina CEO Asks If World Is Ready

A $100 Genome Within Reach, Illumina CEO Asks If World Is Ready

Francis deSouza Photographer: Jeff Spicer/PA Wire via AP For years, the cost to decode a full human genome has been falling much like computer…

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Gilead’s Kite pens 10-target CAR-T tech deal with MaxCyte – FierceBiotech

Gilead’s Kite pens 10-target CAR-T tech deal with MaxCyte – FierceBiotech

Gilead’s Kite Pharma has expanded its CAR-T agreement with MaxCyte. The revised deal gives Kite the chance to apply MaxCyte’s transfection technology to up…

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RFI Deadline Approaching: Understanding the Health of Women and the Role of Sex/Gender in Mechanisms of Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Diseases and Disorders

RFI Deadline Approaching: Understanding the Health of Women and the Role of Sex/Gender in Mechanisms of Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Diseases and Disorders

The biomedical research community has made major progress in achieving a balance of men and women in human studies, however compelling questions about the…

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Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Appoints Lara S. Sullivan to its Board of Directors :: Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (RNN)

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Appoints Lara S. Sullivan to its Board of Directors :: Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (RNN)

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: RNN), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies to improve patient outcomes in cancers that are difficult to…

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2018 was a record year for venture capital, but not for women founders – Washington Business Journal

2018 was a record year for venture capital, but not for women founders – Washington Business Journal

The share of funding going to women-founded startups went down despite a massive influx of dollars to the region. {iframe}https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/02/28/greater-washington-had-a-record-year-for-venture.html{/iframe}

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Sanofi, Bayer and Roche execs underscore the value of digital therapeutics – MedCity News

Sanofi, Bayer and Roche execs underscore the value of digital therapeutics – MedCity News

Biopharma companies have long been looking for a way to go beyond the molecule/pill.The nascent but growing digital therapeutics industry set to grow to…

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Pfizer: Countries free-riding on US innovation – BBC News

Pfizer: Countries free-riding on US innovation – BBC News

Albert Bourla told a US Senate hearing that other nations are "free-riding on American innovation". {iframe}https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47377427{/iframe}

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Van Hollen: Despite Trump, NIH Significantly ‘Better Off’ In Terms of Funding

Van Hollen: Despite Trump, NIH Significantly ‘Better Off’ In Terms of Funding

Funding for the Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health is up by 14 percent during the two years that President Donald Trump has been in…

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BioBuzz with JHU MoCo – March 13th

BioBuzz with JHU MoCo – March 13th

When: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM Where: Bar Louie 150 Gibbs St Rockville, MD 20850 Join BioBuzz and Founding…

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