BioHealth News Archive

NYC Better Brace Itself for Wave of Life Science Companies – Commercial Observer

NYC Better Brace Itself for Wave of Life Science Companies – Commercial Observer

The life science industry is growing rapidly around the country and New York City is poised for an explosion of new companies—but there isn’t…

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Biotech Task Force offers suggestions to reinvigorate life science industry, but warns, ‘there is no magic bullet’ – ROI-NJ

Biotech Task Force offers suggestions to reinvigorate life science industry, but warns, ‘there is no magic bullet’ – ROI-NJ

The state’s Biotechnology Task Force released a 44-page report of recommendations to the state that could help New Jersey reinvigorate its life sciences sector.…

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Smart City Works DEMO DAY S18

Smart City Works DEMO DAY S18

Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:00 PM Come meet our Spring Cohort of next generation technology ventures in: AR/ VR, Smart Parking, Intelligent Buildings,…

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Rare Genomics Institute Announces Winners of BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries) Rare Disease Challenge — Rare Genomics Institute

Rare Genomics Institute Announces Winners of BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries) Rare Disease Challenge — Rare Genomics Institute

The Rare Genomics (RG) Institute is delighted to announce the winners of the 2017 BeHEARD (Helping Empower and Accelerate Research Discoveries) science challenge, a…

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Insilico Medicine receives strategic investment from Chinese biotech firm – Technical.ly Baltimore

Insilico Medicine receives strategic investment from Chinese biotech firm – Technical.ly Baltimore

Baltimore-based Insilico Medicine landed a new strategic investment from Chinese biotech company WuXi AppTec. The amount of the funding was not disclosed, but the…

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Top 10 Under 40 – The Lists – GEN

Top 10 Under 40 – The Lists – GEN

If indeed “innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower,” as Steve Jobs wrote in 2001, then this year’s Top 10 Under 40 are…

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United Therapeutics (UTHR) Announces Collaboration with XVIVO Perfusion to Reduce Organ Shortage

United Therapeutics (UTHR) Announces Collaboration with XVIVO Perfusion to Reduce Organ Shortage

United Therapeutics Corporation (NASDAQ: UTHR) and XVIVO Perfusion, Inc., a subsidiary of XVIVO Perfusion AB (STO: XVIVO), today announced that the use of XVIVO's…

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CRISPR Could Help Us Cure Diseases. It Could Also Cause Cancer.

CRISPR Could Help Us Cure Diseases. It Could Also Cause Cancer.

You know already about the promise for CRISPR-Cas9 — it might revolutionize fields from medicine to agriculture. It might also eventually cause tumors. {iframe}https://futurism.com/crispr-cancer-p53/{/iframe}

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Next Chapter For Biotech? Many Say ‘Convergence’ With Data Science | CommonHealth

Next Chapter For Biotech? Many Say ‘Convergence’ With Data Science | CommonHealth

So far, the digital revolution has mostly been a disappointment in health care. Doctors stare at their screens instead of us. Specialists and emergency…

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Neuralstem Awarded Phase I SBIR Contract to Support Research into Neural Stem Cell Therapy for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Nasdaq:CUR

Neuralstem Awarded Phase I SBIR Contract to Support Research into Neural Stem Cell Therapy for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Nasdaq:CUR

Neuralstem, Inc. (Nasdaq:CUR), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel treatments for nervous system diseases, today announced that it has been awarded a Phase I Small…

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TEDCO launching fund to serve the young startups venture capitalists often overlook – Baltimore Business Journal

TEDCO launching fund to serve the young startups venture capitalists often overlook – Baltimore Business Journal

Maryland Technology Development Corp. is launching a new fund that will offer early stage investments of $50,000 to startups that may be overlooked by…

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Gates Foundation debuts nonprofit biotech firm at BIO – MedCity News

Gates Foundation debuts nonprofit biotech firm at BIO – MedCity News

Biotechnology is one of the hottest areas in business and investing, so it might seem a bit counterintuitive that a new biotechnology firm just…

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Eight startups join Maryland duo-backed accelerator · Articles · Global University Venturing

Eight startups join Maryland duo-backed accelerator · Articles · Global University Venturing

Eight US-based startups have been accepted onto the 2018 cohort of Trajectory Next, a second-stage accelerator run by Johns Hopkins University (JHU), University of…

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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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