BioHealth News Archive
Private biotech funding has skyrocketed, so why bother going public? – MedCity News
Headquartered in Hayward, California, Intarcia Therapeutics is a force to be reckoned with in the biotech world. It has raised over $1 billion in…
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Facebook’s secretive hardware team signs rapid collaboration deal with 17 universities – TechCrunch
Facebook’s shadowy Building 8 research team needs help from academia to invent futuristic hardware. But today’s pace of innovation doesn’t allow for the standard…
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Medgadget’s Best Medical Technologies of 2016 | Medgadget
The year 2016 presented the world with a number of big surprises. Some positive, some negative, depending on whom one asks. Here at Medgadget,…
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It’s no Iron Man suit, but could this futuristic smart wearable help seniors move? – MedCity News
Superflex, a “powered” clothing startup that was spun out of SRI International, the well-known robotics nonprofit, announced earlier this week that it has raised…
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University of Maryland Key Partner in New National Institute for Innovation of Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals | UMD Right Now :: University of Maryland
The University of Maryland will be a key partner in a new institute to advance U.S. leadership in pharmaceutical manufacturing that was announced by…
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Aging Is Reversible–at Least in Human Cells and Live Mice – Scientific American
New research suggests it is possible to slow or even reverse aging, at least in mice, by undoing changes in gene activity—the same kinds…
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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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