BioHealth News Archive
TEDCO Grants Help Scientists Take Their Ideas to Market – NIST
Sometimes lab research leads to a discovery that’s commercially viable enough to start a company. But for scientists with little business experience, making the…
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Medigene AG: Medigene announces outlicensing of AAVLP technology
Medigene AG (http://www.medigene.de) (FSE: MDG1, Prime Standard, TecDAX) announced today that it has granted an exclusive, worldwide license for the development and commercialization of…
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MaxCyte Announces Strategic Immuno-Oncology Collaboration to Advance New Generation of CAR-based Cell Therapies
MaxCyte, Inc. announced today a strategic collaboration with leading academic research institution, Washington University in St. Louis (“Washington University”) to advance next-generation Chimeric Antigen…
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MIT professors push data-based model they say is more predictive of academic’s future success than traditional tenure review methods
Michael Lewis’s 2003 book, Moneyball -- later made into a movie starring Brad Pitt -- tells the story of how predictive analytics transformed the…
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Astellas Announces FDA Fast Track Designation for ASP0892, DNA Vaccine for Mitigation of Severe
Astellas Pharma Inc. (President and CEO: Yoshihiko Hatanaka, "Astellas") and Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. (Founder & CEO: William Hearl, Ph.D., "Immunomic Therapeutics") today announced that…
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Cambridge Innovation Center signs big lease in University City. – Philadelphia Business Journal
Cambridge Innovation Center has signed onto 127,000 square feet at UCity Square in Philadelphia. Known as CIC, the Boston-based company will occupy space at…
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Researchers on the Germantown Campus Are Key in the Fight Against Ebola – MontgomeryCollege
Students attending classes in the Paul Peck Academic and Innovation Building may not realize it, but just upstairs, researchers are changing—and saving—lives. Home to…
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NIH/SBIR grant for Liver-on-a-Chip – Mimetas
The NIH has awarded MIMETAS and the University of Pittsburgh a prestigious SBIR grant to develop a Liver-on-a-Chip platform for high throughput discovery and…
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TEDCO Invests $1.9 Million in 19 Startups to Support Innovation in Maryland – Tedco
The Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) announced today that 19 companies have received over $1.9 million in funding from the organization’s Seed Investment Fund…
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Root3 Labs Launches New Prototyping and Manufacturing Facility – Root3 Labs
Root3 Labs, Inc. recently moved operations to their new prototyping and manufacturing facility in Randallstown, MD. This marks an exciting opportunity to increase engineering…
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ConverGene Announces a License Agreement With the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
ConverGene has entered into an exclusive license agreement with the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health. …
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Chase Down Viruses, Keep Them at Bay | GEN
Since its inception, biotechnology has been preoccupied with virus filtration, the clearance of invasive and adventitious viruses from biopharmaceutical products. And now, far from…
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GSK opens new global vaccines R&D center in Rockville, MD, USA – GSK
GSK will inaugurate its newest global vaccines research and development (R&D) center in Rockville, Maryland, further strengthening and expanding its vaccines presence in the…
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Inova launches investment fund to find personalized medicine innovators – The Washington Post
Inova Health System, the giant nonprofit hospital network serving Northern Virginia, is creating a new start-up incubator and investment program focusing on “personalized” medicine…
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Lessons From My Father, Craig Sager | TIME
Craig Sager II is a managing editor and sportswriter based in Atlanta covering high school sports as well as working with the Atlanta Journal…
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