BioHealth News Archive
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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Jonathan Aberman: The one void that could slow our cybersecurity dreams – The Washington Post
More and more people agree: cybersecurity is in our region’s DNA and can continue to be a boom for greater Washington. But venture capital…
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Biotechnology Ranks No. 2 on Venture Capital List
Venture capital (VC) financing fuels our future by investing in small, early-stage companies and projects that may be destined to become the next Apple…
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Cameo: Ron Daniels – Baltimore magazine
You came to Hopkins in 2009 and now your contract has been extended through 2024. That’s a long time! The board invited me to…
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The ‘Cancer Moonshot’ May Succeed — If We Don’t Weaken Patent Protections [Opinion]
Joe Biden's cancer moonshot might not be as far-fetched as you think. Why? Because multiple U.S. agencies recently took steps to make the cancer moonshot a reality by further strengthening patent…
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