BioHealth News Archive
What Does It Cost to Create a Cancer Drug? Less Than You’d Think – The New York Times
What does it really cost to bring a drug to market? The question is central to the debate over rising health care costs and…
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A $12 Billion Takeover Says That Gene Therapy Cancer Cures Are Big Business – MIT Technology Review
Pharmaceutical firm Gilead Sciences has just put up a cool $11.9 billion to acquire Kite Pharma, which has developed a genetic engineering approach for…
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The growth imperative for medical-device companies – McKinsey & Company
Every year, as part of their strategic planning, executives’ minds turn to setting performance targets—and then achieving them. In so doing, those at medical-device…
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Does Your Genome Predict Your Face? Not Quite Yet – MIT Technology Review
On Monday, the California gene-hunting company Human Longevity published a paper making the bold claim that it can identify individuals using their genomes to…
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Quantum Dots Light Up Tumors Brighter Than Ever Before – Medgadget
Scientists at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) in San Diego, California have devised a way to optically image tumors with unprecedented…
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Finalists selected for $250K pediatric medical device competition – 5th Pediatric Device Symposium
The National Capital Consortium for Pediatric Device Innovation (NCC-PDI) is pleased to announce the 12 finalists selected to pitch their pediatric medical device innovation…
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Can Craig Venter really predict what your look like from your DNA?
Can genomics wizards make an informed guesstimate on what a person looks like, based on his or her DNA? J. Craig Venter sure thinks so,…
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CEO Corner Video with BHI CEO Rich Bendis – #MOCO365
BioHealth Innovation CEO, Richard Bendis discusses with Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation for #MOCO365 how BioHealth Innovation helps accelerate the growth of life science…
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Inova Names Mickey Y. Kim, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President of Research and Commercialization
Inova announced today that Mickey Y. Kim, MD, MBA, has been named Senior Vice President of Research and Commercialization. In this role, Dr. Kim…
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FDA Digital Health Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program
Do you have experience in digital health? Are you passionate about developing innovative solutions to complex challenges? If so, consider joining the FDA Digital…
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Open House by MCEDC, Visit Montgomery, Worksource Montgomery
DATE AND TIME: Wed, September 27, 2017 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM EDT LOCATION: 1801 Rockville Pike Suite 320 Rockville, MD 20852 Join us…
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IBBR Receives Grant to Explore Next Generation Multi-Specific Antibody Therapeutic: Next Step towards a Cure for HIV? | Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
The Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been awarded a $115,000 grant to further develop and commercialize a multi-specific antibody as a…
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Scientific Reproducibility: Addressing Cell Line Authentication, Cross Contamination, Mycoplasma Detection and Antibody Characterization/Validation – Bio-Trac®
Wednesday, October 18 – Friday, October 20, 2017 at the MC Bioscience Education Center in Germantown, MD. Bio-Trac® Training Programs is currently accepting preregistrations…
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Johns Hopkins rises to No. 13 in ‘Times Higher Education’ world university rankings
Johns Hopkins University moved up to 13th in the world and ninth among U.S. universities in the newest Times Higher Education world university rankings,…
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World University Rankings 2018: top performers in our industry income pillar | THE Rankings
Universities often seek to supplement their coffers by finding ways to access private-sector funds, such as by setting up technology transfer offices and trying…
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