BioHealth News Archive

QIAGEN – Sample to Insight

QIAGEN – Sample to Insight

QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the acquisition of OmicSoft Corporation, providing access to OmicSoft’s powerful multi-omics data management infrastructure…

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NIAID Awards Paragon Bioservices a Multiple Award IDIQ Contract valued up to $159M for Preclinical Drug Development Services

NIAID Awards Paragon Bioservices a Multiple Award IDIQ Contract valued up to $159M for Preclinical Drug Development Services

Paragon Bioservices received a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide product development services for a variety of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious…

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Emergent BioSolutions to Support HHS Anthrax Preparedness Strategy With Up to $1 Billion in BioThrax Deliveries to the Strategic National Stockpile

Emergent BioSolutions to Support HHS Anthrax Preparedness Strategy With Up to $1 Billion in BioThrax Deliveries to the Strategic National Stockpile

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is advancing its anthrax preparedness strategy with multiple…

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Cuomo’s budget focuses on biotech, not nanotech – Times Union

Cuomo’s budget focuses on biotech, not nanotech – Times Union

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's state budget proposal puts most of its economic development bets on life sciences and biotech rather than semiconductors and nanotechnology. Cuomo's…

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WellDoc Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance to Offer a Non-Prescription Version of BlueStar® Digital Therapeutic for Type 2 Diabetes

WellDoc Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance to Offer a Non-Prescription Version of BlueStar® Digital Therapeutic for Type 2 Diabetes

Digital health leader WellDoc announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the Company 510(k) class II clearance for a…

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February 7 Seminar in Collaboration with BDO & Crowell Moring

February 7 Seminar in Collaboration with BDO & Crowell Moring

Tuesday, February 7, 20174:00 PM to 6:30 PM (Eastern)Institute for Bioscience & Biotechnology Research9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 BDO and Crowell & Moring…

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Restoring a heartbeat with the help of a robot

Restoring a heartbeat with the help of a robot

Scientists have created a new soft robot that successfully reanimated several pigs’ hearts after they failed. The technology could one day keep an ailing…

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PharmAthene and Altimmune Announce Merger to Create Immunotherapeutics Company Targeting Infectious

PharmAthene and Altimmune Announce Merger to Create Immunotherapeutics Company Targeting Infectious

PharmAthene, Inc. (NYSE MKT: PIP) and Altimmune, Inc., a privately-held immunotherapeutics company targeting infectious diseases, announced today the signing of a definitive agreement for…

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Baltimore developer gets Trump administration tech post – Technical.ly Baltimore

Baltimore developer gets Trump administration tech post – Technical.ly Baltimore

One new member of President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is from Baltimore, and part of his job will involve tech policy. Reed Cordish, a real estate…

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Maryland Cybersecurity Awards Application | MDCyber.com

Maryland Cybersecurity Awards Application | MDCyber.com

The Maryland Cybersecurity Awards Celebration is designed to honor the companies, organizations, and individuals that have protected businesses and government agencies with their cutting-edge…

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8 healthcare startup and investor trends at JPM17 from inverting business models to second order companies – MedCity News

8 healthcare startup and investor trends at JPM17 from inverting business models to second order companies – MedCity News

Last week’s 35th annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco was packed with thousands of healthcare investors, analysts, large multinational healthcare companies, startups,…

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Here are the biggest stories from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference – MedCity News

Here are the biggest stories from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference – MedCity News

In a week that saw countless broken umbrellas and end to the Bay Area’s prolonged drought, the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco featured…

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Epigenetics Drives Pancreatic Cancer Metastasis, Potentially Reversible – GEN

Epigenetics Drives Pancreatic Cancer Metastasis, Potentially Reversible – GEN

A multicenter study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University just reported on a full genomic analysis of tumor samples from a small number…

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Jan 31 NHLBI Small Biz Hangout: Perfecting Your Pitch

Jan 31 NHLBI Small Biz Hangout: Perfecting Your Pitch

Tuesday, January 31 at 2:00 PM ET You’ve got an amazing idea for a new medical product, it’ll save lives, speed recovery, be less…

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One Man’s Quest to Hack His Own Genes

One Man’s Quest to Hack His Own Genes

In a dream Brian Hanley told me about, he’s riding a bus when he meets a man in dark leather clothing. Next thing he…

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