BioHealth News Archive

Meet MCCC Chairman’s Award Winner: June 13 at the MCCC 58th Annual Dinner

Meet MCCC Chairman’s Award Winner: June 13 at the MCCC 58th Annual Dinner

Join MCCC in congratulating David Nguyen as he receives the MCCC 2017 Chairman's Award. David’s contributions to the MCCC Board of Directors are strategic…

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A CAUTIOUS RESTRUCTURING OF THE ANGEL MARKET IN 2016 WITH A ROBUST APPETITE FOR SEED AND START-UP INVESTING

A CAUTIOUS RESTRUCTURING OF THE ANGEL MARKET IN 2016 WITH A ROBUST APPETITE FOR SEED AND START-UP INVESTING

The angel investor market in 2016 experienced a decrease in investment dollars and in the deal size. Total investments in 2016 were $21.3 billion,…

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FDA Launches Digital Health Unit – Medpage Today

FDA Launches Digital Health Unit – Medpage Today

The FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health is ramping up medical app and device offerings with a recently announced digital health unit. The…

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Podcast: What this Inner Harbor incubator is doing to support young companies – Baltimore Business Journal

Podcast: What this Inner Harbor incubator is doing to support young companies – Baltimore Business Journal

Some startup concepts are easy to understand. OrderUp wants to deliver food right to your door. Lyft will make sure you can call a…

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Biotech close to diabetes breakthrough – Innovators magazine

Biotech close to diabetes breakthrough – Innovators magazine

A vaccine that could provide a major breakthrough in the fight against Type 1 diabetes is to be tested in human trials. Developed by Belgian biotech Imcyse, in…

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Guest Comment: The region’s first regionalism – Washington Business Journal

Guest Comment: The region’s first regionalism – Washington Business Journal

With both Maryland and Virginia donating land and financing construction of new federal buildings, a hundred square mile District of Columbia (originally called Territory…

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7 Reasons To Join Business Incubators – HuffPost

7 Reasons To Join Business Incubators – HuffPost

As an entrepreneur, I spent over three years in two different startup incubators – Brazil’s Genesis Institute, part of PUC-Rio’s university, and Maryland’s Rockville Innovation Center, run by…

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How a chance encounter in Texas led to the founding of Becton-Dickinson

How a chance encounter in Texas led to the founding of Becton-Dickinson

Max Becton and Fairleigh Dickinson were two travelling salesmen when they met through an act of kindness in a Texas railroad station in 1897.…

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Lumina kicks venture capital arm into high gear – Indianapolis Business Journal

Lumina kicks venture capital arm into high gear – Indianapolis Business Journal

For more than a decade, Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation has been making grants to organizations that support its mission of increasing the number of adults…

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University Of Maryland, Baltimore And Serenta Team Up To Fight Staph Infections

University Of Maryland, Baltimore And Serenta Team Up To Fight Staph Infections

University of Maryland (UM) Ventures announced today that the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has granted worldwide, exclusive licensing rights for a new vaccine…

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Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation (C3i) Program – Innovation America

Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation (C3i) Program – Innovation America

Are you an NIH-funded investigator focused on medical device innovations? NIH recently announced the availability of administrative supplements to parent awards for a number…

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TEDCO awarding $300,000 for the next great incubation idea – Baltimore Business Journal

TEDCO awarding $300,000 for the next great incubation idea – Baltimore Business Journal

Maryland Technology Development Corp. is offering $300,000 to the person or organization that comes up with the best idea for how to support and…

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Administrative Supplements for Participation in the Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation (C3i) Program (Admin Supp)

Administrative Supplements for Participation in the Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation (C3i) Program (Admin Supp)

The Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation (C3i) Program is designed to provide NIH-funded medical device innovators with an entrepreneurship training program to include specialized…

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20/20 GeneSystems Shareholders Update

20/20 GeneSystems Shareholders Update

We are pleased to report that 20/20 placed first place among 21 pre-selected entrepreneurial contestants this month at the U.S. China Innovation & Investment…

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Hundreds Celebrate FastForward 1812’s Promise to Support Innovation – JHTV

Hundreds Celebrate FastForward 1812’s Promise to Support Innovation – JHTV

On April 26, hundreds of people came to East Baltimore for the grand opening of FastForward 1812. The event, billed as a celebration of…

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