BioHealth News Archive
IBBR faculty win two Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) grants
The Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been awarded two $115,000 grants to commercialize technologies based on improving protein-based therapeutics utilizing a…
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Qiagen Inks Separate NGS Deals With Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johns Hopkins – GenomeWeb
Qiagen this past weekend said that it signed separate agreements with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Johns Hopkins University related to next-generation sequencing assay development. Under…
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McAuliffe announces technology research awards
Several technology research and commercialization research projects are getting money thanks to the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund Awards. Governor Terry McAuliffe announced $2.7 million…
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QIAGEN receives U.S. FDA approval for cytomegalovirus (CMV) testing on automated QIAsymphony
QIAGEN (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced it has received premarket approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its…
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QIAGEN Expands Biomarker Content Portfolio to Support Molecular Diagnostics for Immuno-Oncology Therapies
QIAGEN has announced it has received a worldwide license from The Johns Hopkins University for biomarkers that have been shown to play key roles…
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 (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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