BioHealth News Archive
CELEBRATION OF LEADERSHIP
You're invited to LM's greatest event of the year! Join us on Tuesday, June 6 as we present the 2017 graduating Core, Senior and…
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Cydan, NEA’s Orphan Drug Experiment, Pays Off in $200M Vtesse Deal – Xconomy
Four years into its existence, Cydan Development, New Enterprise Associates’ orphan drug startup accelerator, has notched its first big win. Vtesse, the first company…
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Daniels: Johns Hopkins making ‘tremendous strides’ toward shared goals – Hub
Almost four years after the launch of the Ten by Twenty vision plan, Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels today invited the university…
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Machine learning predicts the look of stem cells – Nature News & Comment
No two stem cells are identical, even if they are genetic clones. This stunning diversity is revealed today in an enormous publicly available online…
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D.C.-area venture capital funding off to a great start in 2017. Here’s what Pitchbook says companies raised in VC so far. – Washington Business Journal
Big funding deals across a number of industries propelled the D.C. area to one of its best first quarters in recent venture capital memory,…
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Register for Health Datapalooza 2017 by this Friday, April 7 for Early Bird
April 27-28, 2017 - Washington, DC Secure your spot today at the 8th Annual Health Datapalooza, the gathering place for people and organizations creating…
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How the Trump Administration Can Unshackle Innovation in Agricultural Biotechnology – ITIF
New techniques for improving plants and animals promise to reshape virtually every aspect of the relationship between humans and our environment for the better.…
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NCI to Build New Research Lab on JHU Montgomery County Campus – News – Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus
The National Cancer Institute has picked the Johns Hopkins Montgomery County Campus as the site for a new laboratory building for its epidemiology and…
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Fledgling biotech Vtesse in $200M buyout from struggling Sucampo – FierceBiotech
Despite only coming into life two years ago, Pfizer and NEA-backed upstart Vtesse has already seen its rare disease candidate VTS-270, for Niemann-Pick disease…
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Tagrisso Gains Regular FDA Approval for NSCLC – MPR
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Tagrisso (osimertinib; AstraZeneca) for the treatment of patients with metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) T790M mutation-positive non-small cell…
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Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics Corp. (NASDAQ: UTHR) loses rules in challenge against drug patent – Washington Business Journal
Silver Spring-based biotech United Therapeutics Corp. (NASDAQ: UTHR) lost a recent challenge to one of its lead patents for its flagship drugs. The U.S.…
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HHS secretary proposes cutting reimbursements that fund university-based research
When President Trump proposed a cut of nearly 20 percent in support for the National Institutes of Health, many wondered how the administration would even…
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Qiagen Exclusively Licenses AR-V7 Detection Method From Johns Hopkins – GenomeWeb
Qiagen said Friday after the close of the market that it has acquired an exclusive worldwide license from Johns Hopkins University for detection of…
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Canopy Biosciences Acquires Rights to New Johns Hopkins, WUSTL Gene-Editing Tech – GenomeWeb
Research tools developer Canopy Biosciences announced today that it has exclusively licensed a novel gene-editing technology from Washington University in St. Louis and Johns…
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Independence’s digital health partnership provides seed capital to first company – IBX Newsroom
Independence Health Group, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. have given a $150,000 seed investment to VitalTrax. This is…
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