BioHealth News Archive

Mark Zuckerberg Is Funding a Facebook for Human Cells

Mark Zuckerberg Is Funding a Facebook for Human Cells

Stephen Quake’s laboratory at Stanford University looks like biology’s version of Thomas Edison’s famous New Jersey workshop. Roll-down curtains cast shadows across odd devices…

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FDA approves Roche’s immunotherapy lung cancer assay

FDA approves Roche’s immunotherapy lung cancer assay

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche’s PD-L1 assay as a diagnostic to identify PD-L1 expression levels in patients considering treatment…

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Immunomic Therapeutics – Cancer Discovery Incubator

Immunomic Therapeutics – Cancer Discovery Incubator

Immunomic Therapeutics is committed to providing a workplace that bolsters scientific ideas. The Cancer Discovery Incubator will enable and accelerate beginning ventures with the…

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New York Institutions, VCs Team up to Build Drug Discovery “Bridge” | Xconomy

New York Institutions, VCs Team up to Build Drug Discovery “Bridge” | Xconomy

New York biotech has historically lagged behind more established life sciences hubs like Boston and San Francisco, but collaborations between its research institutions have…

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Reston telemedicine company Avizia raises $17 million for telemedicine expansion – Washington Business Journal

Reston telemedicine company Avizia raises $17 million for telemedicine expansion – Washington Business Journal

Reston-based telemedicine provider Avizia Inc. raised $6 million in Series A funding, amping up a fundraising round we reported earlier this year to a…

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Third Rock Ventures, One of Biotech’s Daring Investors, Raises $616M For More Startups

Third Rock Ventures, One of Biotech’s Daring Investors, Raises $616M For More Startups

Biotech venture capital is supposed to be the highest-risk/highest-reward type of investment there is. But many biotech VCs are actually pretty conservative, hesitant to…

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Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission Launches Accelerating Cure – Benzinga

Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission Launches Accelerating Cure – Benzinga

Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission announced today the launch of Accelerating Cure, a new initiative to support regenerative medicine and cell therapy technologies moving…

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Baltimore is making a $5 billion bet that entrepreneurs can revive the city

Baltimore is making a $5 billion bet that entrepreneurs can revive the city

Kevin Plank's underdog story has become synonymous with Baltimore — the city his company Under Armour calls home. Now his investment company, Plank Industries,…

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These 8 DC-area tech companies made Entrepreneur’s top 360 list – Technical.ly DC

These 8 DC-area tech companies made Entrepreneur’s top 360 list – Technical.ly DC

Entrepreneur, the magazine that celebrates small business, recently released a list of what they consider to be the 360 best small businesses America has…

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On the forefront of AI and Big Data: Sight Machine is Advancing Manufacturing Analytics

On the forefront of AI and Big Data: Sight Machine is Advancing Manufacturing Analytics

Sight Machine is a manufacturing analytics company based in the Ann Arbor SPARK Central Innovation Center. It takes all the different resources available to…

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VIDEO: MedImmune collaborates with UCSF for treatment of patients with rheumatic diseases

VIDEO: MedImmune collaborates with UCSF for treatment of patients with rheumatic diseases

Bing Yao, PhD, Head of Respiratory, Inflammation and Autoimmunity at MedImmune, spoke with Healio Rheumatology about MedImmune’s collaboration with the University of California at…

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Immunomic Announces Local Incubator – Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation

Immunomic Announces Local Incubator – Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation

A great example of a local company giving back to the business community:  Montgomery County’s Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. Founder Dr. Bill Hearl, recently announced…

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From Baltimore to Australia, Northrop Grumman and bwtech@UMBC Speed Tomorrow’s Cyber Solutions to Market

From Baltimore to Australia, Northrop Grumman and bwtech@UMBC Speed Tomorrow’s Cyber Solutions to Market

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) and the bwtech@UMBC Cyber Incubator announced today that two more cyber startups – one representing the first international company to…

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Lab Fab: The New Breed of Collaborative Science Developments – Commercial Observer

Lab Fab: The New Breed of Collaborative Science Developments – Commercial Observer

“Chemistry is the study of matter,” Walter White once opined on Breaking Bad. “But I prefer to see it as the study of change.”…

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Root3 Labs Grand Opening Celebration!

Root3 Labs Grand Opening Celebration!

Wed, November 9, 2016 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST Join us for an evening of food, drink, and revelry as we celebrate moving…

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