BioHealth News Archive
Reminder: Please Complete the Montgomery County Business Survey
In an ongoing effort to improve the experience of doing business in and/or with Montgomery County, County Executive Ike Leggett is inviting the business community to…
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MedImmune won’t be impacted by AstraZeneca sale of antibiotic business to Pfizer – Baltimore Business Journal
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca's agreement to sell much of its antibiotics business won't impact operations at MedImmune, its Gaithersburg-based research and development arm, officials confirmed…
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Bayer supports ′Digital Health startups′ – DW.COM
More and more big firms are bringing young talent in-house in the hope that they will bring fresh ideas along with them and infuse…
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Health systems: Improving and sustaining quality through digital transformation – McKinsey & Company
Health systems in developed countries face a twofold challenge: ensuring financial sustainability and improving quality. Digitization can help health systems achieve both these objectives…
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23andMe’s Consumer DNA Data Gold Mine Is Starting To Pay Off – Fast Company
After decades of inconclusive results, researchers backed by Pfizer and Massachusetts General Hospital revealed that they had identified several genetic markers associated with depression…
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20 Executives Selected for Women in Bio’s First Boardroom Ready Class
Twenty accomplished female life sciences executives will comprise the first ever cohort of Women In Bio’s Boardroom Ready program, the organization announced today. The…
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Can a Supercomputer Suggest the Best Cancer Treatment? – Scientific American
In 2011, a supercomputer won $1 million on Jeopardy! In 2016, that same supercomputer is tackling a challenge quantified not in millions of dollars…
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FDA Grants Tentative Approval for Trokendi XR in Migraine Prophylaxis – MPR
Supernus announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted tentative approval to the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) proposing a label expansion…
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Precision Medicine’s Top 50 Influencers revealed!
Precision Medicine is gathering pace, driven by leaders from across healthcare, academia, Big Pharma, government, technology innovators and more. In the past year the…
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New Enterprise Associates ups its investment in cyber-threat detection – The Washington Post
Chevy Chase venture fund New Enterprise Associates upped its bet on ThreatQuotient, a Reston-based cybersecurity analytics start-up, in a $12 million investment announced Tuesday.…
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GSK tops list of businesses which ‘change the world’
The company, which employs more than 300 people at its plant in Ulverston, was praised for its work helping tackle diseases in both the…
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Institute of Human Virology (IHV) Awarded $14.4M for HIV Vaccine Research
The Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced today a $14.4 million grant from the U.S. National…
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University of Maryland receives $14.4 million for HIV study – Baltimore Business Journal
The Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine received a $14.4 million grant for HIV research. The grant, awarded…
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New NHLBI SBIR contract solicitation – SBIR.gov
New treatments are needed for severe asthmatics who do not respond to standard therapy with inhaled steroids, especially those with a “type 2 low”…
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NCI SBIR Briefing
This free event brought to you by BioHealth Innovation is to gather interested small businesses seeking funding from the NCI SBIR grants program. Connect…
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