BioHealth News Archive

Use this year’s angel investor rankings to place your startup – The American Genius

Use this year’s angel investor rankings to place your startup – The American Genius

Look out Silicon Valley, there’s a new innovation hotbed in town. For the second year in a row, Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) has…

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AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) Receives US FDA Accelerated Approval for Previously Treated Patients With Advanced Bladder Cancer

AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) Receives US FDA Accelerated Approval for Previously Treated Patients With Advanced Bladder Cancer

AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) and its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune, today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated…

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Johns Hopkins seeding startups to keep health tech companies in Baltimore – DOTmed.com

Johns Hopkins seeding startups to keep health tech companies in Baltimore – DOTmed.com

Tired of seeing most of the $1 billion-plus it raised for startup funding leave the state, Johns Hopkins University has opened a new state-of-the-art…

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Science Advocates See Trump Backlash in Budget Boost – The Chronicle of Higher Education

If there was any doubt that a Republican-led Congress might give a strong boost to federal science spending, the Trump administration probably sealed the…

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RFA-HL-17-023: Revision Applications for Regenerative Medicine Innovation Projects (RMIP) (R43/R44)

RFA-HL-17-023: Revision Applications for Regenerative Medicine Innovation Projects (RMIP) (R43/R44)

NHLBI small business awardees are eligible to apply for a competing revision to your current award. The Regenerative Medicine Innovation Project (RMIP), will support…

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GSK invests $139 million to expand production capacity for BENLYSTA (belimumab) in Rockville, MD

GSK invests $139 million to expand production capacity for BENLYSTA (belimumab) in Rockville, MD

GSK today announced $139 million of new investment in its biopharmaceutical manufacturing site in Rockville, MD to support growing demand for BENLYSTA® (belimumab) for…

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NIH to get a $2 billion funding boost as Congress rebuffs Trump

NIH to get a $2 billion funding boost as Congress rebuffs Trump

The National Institutes of Health will get a $2 billion funding boost over the next five months, under a bipartisan spending deal reached late…

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MaxBio Scientific Joins JHU Community – News – Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus

MaxBio Scientific Joins JHU Community – News – Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus

For Charles Li, locating his office at the Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus is like coming home. Li received his MBA from the…

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Cerecor Reports Encouraging Topline Data from a NIH Sponsored Proof-of-Concept Trial of CERC-501 in Treatment-Resistant Depression

Cerecor Reports Encouraging Topline Data from a NIH Sponsored Proof-of-Concept Trial of CERC-501 in Treatment-Resistant Depression

Cerecor Inc. (NASDAQ: CERC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments to make a difference in the lives of patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders,…

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Jay Perman & Freeman Hrabowski: March for Science – Center Maryland Blog

Jay Perman & Freeman Hrabowski: March for Science – Center Maryland Blog

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to march in Washington, DC, to celebrate and defend science—at a time when many believe…

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VLP Therapeutics Receives Notice of Allowance of Key U.S. composition of matter Patent for immune checkpoint PD-1/PD-L1/PD-L2 inserted alphavirus VLP – VLP Therapeutics

VLP Therapeutics Receives Notice of Allowance of Key U.S. composition of matter Patent for immune checkpoint PD-1/PD-L1/PD-L2 inserted alphavirus VLP – VLP Therapeutics

VLP Therapeutics, LLC. (“VLP”), a biotechnology company focusing on the research and development of therapeutic and preventative vaccines and antibody agents, today announced that…

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Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics Corp. (NASDAQ: UTHR) partners with 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) for human transplants – Washington Business Journal

Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics Corp. (NASDAQ: UTHR) partners with 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) for human transplants – Washington Business Journal

Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics Corp. has been clear about its ambitions to build an unlimited supply of certain transplantable organs. Now, founder Martine Rothblatt…

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Venture capital firms based in the Greater Washington, D.C. metro area are now competing with Silicon Valley-based venture capitalists to invest in D.C. companies – Washington Business Journal

Venture capital firms based in the Greater Washington, D.C. metro area are now competing with Silicon Valley-based venture capitalists to invest in D.C. companies – Washington Business Journal

The region has seen serious spikes in venture capital funding in the last decade — and more of our local firms are benefiting.  …

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RegeneRx Licensee Receives FDA Permission to Conduct a Phase 3 Trial of RGN-137 for Epidermolysis Bullosa in U.S. – Feb 27, 2017

RegeneRx Licensee Receives FDA Permission to Conduct a Phase 3 Trial of RGN-137 for Epidermolysis Bullosa in U.S. – Feb 27, 2017

RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCQB: RGRX) ("the Company" or "RegeneRx"), a clinical-stage drug development company focused on tissue protection, repair and regeneration, today announced that…

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Careers Opportunities at Personal Genome Diagnostics

Careers Opportunities at Personal Genome Diagnostics

PGDx launched in 2010 to bring innovative genetic analyses to cancer researchers, physicians and patients. PGDx uses cutting-edge next-generation sequencing and analysis techniques to…

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