BioHealth News Archive
Inova strikes deal with University of Virginia Medical School for NoVa campus – Washington Business Journal
Inova Health System and the University of Virginia plan to announce a $112 million partnership Wednesday that will bring a regional campus of UVa's…
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A new algorithm developed at Johns Hopkins could lead to better wine – Technical.ly Baltimore
A new algorithm developed by a Johns Hopkins computer scientist could revolutionize the way scientists look at genes. A team of 17 scientists led…
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Daniel Kraft: Tech tsunami in healthcare coming, but are there right platforms to catch wave? – MedCity NewsMedCity News
Last week at the Cleveland Clinic’s annual Medical Innovations Summit, Daniel Kraft, chair of medicine and neuroscience at Singularity University, and an oncologist, painted a…
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TEDCO Revamps Its Investment Programs, MSCRF Launches Accelerating Cure
TEDCO is happy to announce its new Seed Investment Fund. After careful consideration of feedback received from our recent market stakeholder survey, we've decided…
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DOTmed.com – GE and Johns Hopkins build NASA-style hospital command center
GE Healthcare and Johns Hopkins Hospital partnered to construct a NASA-style command center to better manage patient safety, experience and volume. The Judy Reitz…
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Academics Write Papers Arguing Over How Many People Read (And Cite) Their Papers – Smithsonian
There are a lot of scientific papers out there. One estimate puts the count at 1.8 million articles published each year, in about 28,000 journals. Who actually…
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Vigilant Bioservices Open House
Vigilant Bioservices Open House In the UMB Biopark 801 W. Baltimore St., Suite 303, Baltimore, Md. 21201 (street parking & garage on same block…
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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
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 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 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-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
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 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
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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