BioHealth News Archive

Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong eyes health care role under Trump

Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong eyes health care role under Trump

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, an audacious biotech billionaire who has pledged to “solve health care,” has been in talks with the Trump administration about the possibility of…

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You Don’t Need to Be Superwoman to Succeed in STEM – The Chronicle of Higher Education

You Don’t Need to Be Superwoman to Succeed in STEM – The Chronicle of Higher Education

A few weeks before I began my freshman year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I received an official- looking envelope from a student…

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MdBio Foundation to Unveil Nation’s Largest, Most Advanced Mobile STEM Lab

MdBio Foundation to Unveil Nation’s Largest, Most Advanced Mobile STEM Lab

The MdBio Foundation, a non-profit that provides STEM education and workforce development to underserved communities, will unveil its new mobile laboratory, the Mobile eXploration…

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Keep your texts private in Trump’s America (and everywhere else, too)

Keep your texts private in Trump’s America (and everywhere else, too)

So, here we are: With a new president come new concerns over surveillance powers that could so forcefully bite us in the ass. The…

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Here Are the Details of Trump’s Governmentwide Hiring Freeze – Management – GovExec.com

Here Are the Details of Trump’s Governmentwide Hiring Freeze – Management – GovExec.com

President Donald Trump’s hiring freeze will last only as long as it takes his administration to come up with an alternative attrition plan, according…

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Request for Information (RFI): NHLBI Translational Research

Request for Information (RFI): NHLBI Translational Research

NHLBI seeks to facilitate and accelerate the development of new clinical interventions by bridging the gaps between mechanistic, discovery, and early translational research. This…

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Psyadon Announces Positive Results from Phase 2b Clinical Study of Ecopipam for the Treatment of Tourette’s Syndrome in Children

Psyadon Announces Positive Results from Phase 2b Clinical Study of Ecopipam for the Treatment of Tourette’s Syndrome in Children

Psyadon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company focused on treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders, announced today that its lead product -- ecopipam -- produced significant…

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MedTech Innovator Applications Are Open! | Medgadget

MedTech Innovator Applications Are Open! | Medgadget

The premiere medical technology start-up competition has just announced they are accepting applications for their next batch of world changing companies. Medgadget had the…

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EU-USA Research Collaboration and Funding Opportunities in Horizon 2020, the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation

EU-USA Research Collaboration and Funding Opportunities in Horizon 2020, the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation

Horizon 2020 is the European Union's largest research and innovation initiative, with nearly €80 billion in funding allocated for over seven years. The program…

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NIH Director Francis Collins to Stay On under Trump, for Now – Scientific American

NIH Director Francis Collins to Stay On under Trump, for Now – Scientific American

Dr. Francis Collins is being held over as the director of the National Institutes of Health by the Trump administration, his office announced Thursday…

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Donald Trump’s first 100 days, and beyond, for biopharma – FierceBiotech

Donald Trump’s first 100 days, and beyond, for biopharma – FierceBiotech

As Donald Trump is sworn into office today, we look at what the next 100 days and indeed the next four years could mean…

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Machfu Increases Offering to $1.5 Million

Machfu Increases Offering to $1.5 Million

Machfu Inc., a technology solutions company based in Germantown, filed to raise an added $1 million in private equity and extend the life of…

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AbbVie and Johns Hopkins to Collaborate on Cancer Research – JHTV

AbbVie and Johns Hopkins to Collaborate on Cancer Research – JHTV

AbbVie, a global biopharmaceutical company, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine today announced that they signed a five-year collaboration agreement with the…

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California stem cell agency has funded just a trickle of clinical trials

California stem cell agency has funded just a trickle of clinical trials

It’s been more than a decade since California launched an unprecedented experiment in medical research by direct democracy, when voters created a $3 billion…

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Check out these photos of the new Johns Hopkins incubator in East Baltimore – Technical.ly Baltimore

Check out these photos of the new Johns Hopkins incubator in East Baltimore – Technical.ly Baltimore

Johns Hopkins Tech Ventures released photos of a new incubator space that’s set to open later this year. FastForward 1812 is located within 1812…

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