BioHealth News Archive
Lupin partners with Mylan for Enbrel Biosimilar
Lupin has announced that it has partnered with Mylan to commercialize Enbrel (Etanercept) biosimilar. Under the terms of the agreement, Lupin will receive an…
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The Five Biggest Startup Opportunities In Agtech Today
Venture investors poured more than $1 billion into agtech last year, and we are on pace to match or exceed that this year. The…
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GE Healthcare to become standalone business – MedCity News
Changes are afoot at GE. The company will separate GE Healthcare into a standalone company. Kieran Murphy, the president and CEO of GE Healthcare,…
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Philadelphia-based Carisma Therapeutics closes $53 million venture capital financing – Philadelphia Business Journal
Carisma Therapeutics, formerly Carma Therapeutics, is working on a new onco-immunotherapy approach for treating cancer patients with solid tumors. {iframe}https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2018/06/27/penn-cell-therapy-spinoff-closes-53m-financing.html?ana=e_phil_bn_breakingnews&u=wjGEy67ABoSnsLErlc5ry0j5hx3&t=1530538100&j=82388541{/iframe}
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Penn invests $50 million in biotech in a bold bid to build Philly’s innovation cluster
Without fanfare, the University of Pennsylvania has agreed to invest up to $50 million over the next three years in at least 10 biotech companies,…
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Senseonics Announces Public Offering of Common Stock – Business Wire
Senseonics Holdings, Inc. (NYSE American: SENS), a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of Eversense®, a long-term, implantable continuous glucose monitoring…
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QIAGEN announces broadening of GeneReader NGS System applications into hereditary disease analysis | Business Wire
QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today introduced seamless next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions for a wide range of hereditary diseases on the…
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DC area is home to 2 of the nation’s best children’s hospitals | WTOP
Hospitals in D.C. and Baltimore rank among the best in the nation, according to a new list released by U.S. News & World Report.…
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Turning A Phage – YouTube
Joel Grimwood needed a new heart, but a chronic bacterial infection lurking within his implanted ventricle assist device made getting one impossible. Five transplant…
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UCSD launches bacteriophage treatment center – BioCentury
The University of California San Diego launched the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) to develop bacteriophages to fight multidrug-resistant bacteria. The…
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Superbug killers find a home at UC San Diego – The San Diego Union-Tribune
What started with a wife’s stubborn refusal to give up on her husband who lay dying of a superbug infection has become a whole…
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Can bacteria-slaying viruses defeat antibiotic-resistant infections? A new U.S. clinical center aims to find out | Science | AAAS
One piece of good news can make all the difference. In the fight against antibiotic-resistant infections, a decades-old approach based on bacteria-slaying viruses called…
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Scientists Are Using Viruses to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria | Time
A new medical research center in San Diego is embracing an innovative way to treat antibiotic resistant infections called bacteriophage therapy—phage therapy for short—which…
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First phage therapy center in the U.S. signals growing acceptance
When her husband was dying of a drug-resistant infection, Steffanie Strathdee had a last-ditch idea. They could try treating him with a virus that…
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The Greater Washington Partnership is teaming with universities to build a set of regional tech credentials – Washington Business Journal
The Greater Washington Partnership, an alliance of local CEOs, is launching a formal collaboration program with a swath of regional universities — part of…
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