BioHealth News Archive

Pfizer, Celgene and Roche are climbing pharma VC league table – FierceBiotech

Pfizer, Celgene and Roche are climbing pharma VC league table – FierceBiotech

Corporate venture capital (CVC) has long been an important source of capital for early-stage biotechs and shows no signs of diminishing, with more and…

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The rise and rise of the corporate venture arms – EP Vantage

The rise and rise of the corporate venture arms – EP Vantage

Corporate venture firms are a well-established presence on the biotech funding scene, with the likes of Novartis and Glaxosmithkine’s SR One among the most…

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BioMarker Strategies Announces Two New Patents Granted in Japan, Covering the Company’s Core Diagnostics Technologies for Solid Tumor Cancers | Business Wire

BioMarker Strategies Announces Two New Patents Granted in Japan, Covering the Company’s Core Diagnostics Technologies for Solid Tumor Cancers | Business Wire

BioMarker Strategies, LLC, today announced that the Japan Patent Office has granted new patents covering the Company’s SnapPath® Cancer Diagnostics System technology and its…

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NHLBI Funding & Research Opportunities and Announcements for August 25, 2017

NHLBI Funding & Research Opportunities and Announcements for August 25, 2017

The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of interest: Notices Notice of…

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Montgomery County MOVE Program | Maryland Economic Development Association (MEDA)

Montgomery County MOVE Program | Maryland Economic Development Association (MEDA)

The MOVE program is an innovative approach intended to attract new businesses to Montgomery County, Maryland. Eligible new businesses will receive a one-time grant…

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Cambridge pledges to drive UK’s industrial renaissance from bio nervecentre | Business Weekly | Technology News | Business news | Cambridge and the East of England

Cambridge pledges to drive UK’s industrial renaissance from bio nervecentre | Business Weekly | Technology News | Business news | Cambridge and the East of England

The university and life science giants AstraZeneca and MedImmune have joined forces with the burgeoning Cambridge Biomedical Campus and pledged to work with the…

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Scientists Develop Blood Test That Spots Tumor-Derived DNA in People With Early-Stage Cancers – 08/16/2017

Scientists Develop Blood Test That Spots Tumor-Derived DNA in People With Early-Stage Cancers – 08/16/2017

In a bid to detect cancers early and in a noninvasive way, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report they have developed…

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BrainScope Completes $16 Million Equity Fundraise — BrainScope

BrainScope Completes $16 Million Equity Fundraise — BrainScope

BrainScope Company, Inc., the medical neurotechnology company which created the first FDA-cleared handheld medical device for assessment of the full spectrum of traumatic brain…

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EAGB Breakfast Series- Leading the Cyber Transformation

EAGB Breakfast Series- Leading the Cyber Transformation

Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:30 AM - American Visionary Art Museum800 Key HighwayJRVC 3rd FloorBaltimore, MD 21230 Already dubbed a ‘tech hub’, the Baltimore-Washington…

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AstraZeneca auctions off rights to another pipeline drug as Takeda grabs $400M Parkinson’s deal – ENDPOINTS NEWS

AstraZeneca auctions off rights to another pipeline drug as Takeda grabs $400M Parkinson’s deal – ENDPOINTS NEWS

AstraZeneca has sold off marketing and development rights to another one of its pipeline assets. This time it’s Takeda that’s stepping up, inking a…

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Virginia Bio Elects New Officers for Board of Directors

Virginia Bio Elects New Officers for Board of Directors

Virginia Bio, the premier statewide non-profit association of the life science industry in Virginia, elected Andrew J. Krouse to a two-year term as Chairman…

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Lightower Adds New, Strategic Potomac River Crossing to Network -Lightower Fiber Networks

Lightower Adds New, Strategic Potomac River Crossing to Network -Lightower Fiber Networks

Lightower Fiber Networks, the premier provider of all-fiber, high-performance networking solutions delivered over its own network, announced the availability of a newly constructed, all-fiber…

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Faslodex Monotherapy Now Approved for HR+, HER2- Advanced Breast Cancer – MPR

AstraZeneca announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Faslodex (fulvestrant) as monotherapy for use in women with hormone-receptor positive (HR+), human…

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Novel Medical Device Manufacturing Operation and Accelerator Coming to Port Covington

Novel Medical Device Manufacturing Operation and Accelerator Coming to Port Covington

The MVR Company (MVR) and Engineered Medical Systems, Inc. (EMS) announced today that they have executed a lease to occupy space at the City…

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Machfu Raises $1.6 Million to Further Accelerate Deployment of Industrial IoT in Energy, Smart Water Markets – Machfu

Machfu Raises $1.6 Million to Further Accelerate Deployment of Industrial IoT in Energy, Smart Water Markets – Machfu

Machfu, an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company leading the way in the development of an edge intelligence platform for IIoT, announced that it…

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