BioHealth News Archive

Gottlieb at BIO: FDA developing processes around right-to-try law – MedCity News

Gottlieb at BIO: FDA developing processes around right-to-try law – MedCity News

Perhaps it was inevitable that with Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb speaking before an auditorium full of biotechnology executives, a particularly contentious…

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Lockheed Martin Doubles Venture Capital Fund To $200 Million – Defense Daily Network

Lockheed Martin Doubles Venture Capital Fund To $200 Million – Defense Daily Network

Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Wednesday said it has added another $100 million to its venture capital fund, doubling the firepower of Lockheed Martin Ventures…

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Life sciences companies could see changes in collaborations with new accounting standard – Boston Business Journal

Life sciences companies could see changes in collaborations with new accounting standard – Boston Business Journal

Regulatory and competitive uncertainties in the marketplace lead many life sciences companies to enter into collaborative arrangements with other companies to develop new drugs…

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Johns Hopkins, Betamore, UMB select a cohort of startups for Baltimore’s newest accelerator program Trajectory Next – Baltimore Business Journal

Johns Hopkins, Betamore, UMB select a cohort of startups for Baltimore’s newest accelerator program Trajectory Next – Baltimore Business Journal

Betamore, Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures and the University of Maryland, Baltimore have launched the first cohort of a new collaborative accelerator program, called Trajectory…

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GlycoMimetics prices $119m public offering – MassDevice

GlycoMimetics prices $119m public offering – MassDevice

GlycoMimetics (NSDQ:GLYC) priced an underwritten public offering of 7,000,000 shares of common stock at $17.00 apiece today, reporting that it expects to bring in $119…

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Emergent BioSolutions Announces $50 Million Expansion of Baltimore Fill/Finish Facility NYSE:EBS

Emergent BioSolutions Announces $50 Million Expansion of Baltimore Fill/Finish Facility NYSE:EBS

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) today announced the beginning of a $50 million expansion to the company’s Camden fill/finish facility located in Baltimore, Md. The…

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Kinometrix lands Inova Personalized Health Accelerator’s second investment – Washington Business Journal

Kinometrix lands Inova Personalized Health Accelerator’s second investment – Washington Business Journal

The company will receive $75,000 in exchange for up to 10 percent equity, plus incubation space and a customized growth strategy. {iframe}https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/06/06/exclusiveinova-accelerator-makes-its-second.html{/iframe}

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Noble Life Sciences Selects Comprehensive Suite of Preclinical Software Solutions from Instem | Business Wire

Noble Life Sciences Selects Comprehensive Suite of Preclinical Software Solutions from Instem | Business Wire

Instem, a leading provider of IT solutions to the global life sciences market, is pleased to announce that Noble Life Sciences, Inc. (Noble) has…

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Gene therapy is saving children’s lives—but screening to discover who needs it is lagging behind – MIT Technology Review

Gene therapy is saving children’s lives—but screening to discover who needs it is lagging behind – MIT Technology Review

Fifteen children born with a rare muscle-wasting disease would probably not be alive today if not for an experimental treatment that tweaked their genes…

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Servier Announces Launch of Servier BioInnovation in the U.S. | Business Wire

Servier Announces Launch of Servier BioInnovation in the U.S. | Business Wire

Servier, an independent international pharmaceutical company, today announced the appointments of Christian Schubert, Ph.D. and Rekha Paleyanda, Ph.D., as Directors of Servier BioInnovation along…

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Pfizer commits $600 mln to VC unit – PE Hub

Pfizer commits $600 mln to VC unit – PE Hub

New York City-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc is planning on investing $600 million in biotechnology and other emerging growth companies through Pfizer Ventures. About…

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Investment, Innovation and Job Creation in a Growing U.S. Bioscience Industry

Investment, Innovation and Job Creation in a Growing U.S. Bioscience Industry

The bioscience industry represents the unique confluence of key characteristics for societal and economic progress—extremely high levels of innovation that are saving and improving…

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Useful Stats: SBIR/STTR awards by Metro (2013-2017) – Maryland Ranked #3

Useful Stats: SBIR/STTR awards by Metro (2013-2017) – Maryland Ranked #3

Last week, SSTI examined the geography of “America’s Seed Fund,” the SBIR/STTR awards, on a state-by-state basis. A look at how the more than…

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Sonavex Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for EchoMark & EchoMark LP Tissue Markers – Sonavex

Sonavex Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for EchoMark & EchoMark LP Tissue Markers – Sonavex

Sonavex, Inc., a privately held medical device company focused on improving surgical patient outcomes with point-of-care imaging technologies, announced today that it received 510(k)…

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BHI Job Opportunity: Executive Administrator

BHI Job Opportunity: Executive Administrator

This position reports to and works directly with the President & CEO and in close collaboration with the Director of Finance and Managing Director,…

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