BioHealth News Archive
Apply to Illumina Accelerator by Sept 1st
We are delighted to announce Illumina Accelerator is accepting applications for its next funding cycle in San Francisco. Illumina Accelerator is the world’s first…
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House Small Business Committee Issues report on Commercializing on Small Business Innovation Act
The House Small Business Committee issued a report (H.Rpt. 114-705) on legislation (H.R. 4783) to reauthorize and improve the Small Business Innovation Research Program...…
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HHS Forges Unprecedented Partnership to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
To address one of the greatest modern threats to public health — antibiotic resistance — the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),…
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GSK chases next biotech asthma drug with $230M J&J deal – Fox News
GlaxoSmithKline has bought global rights to an experimental drug from Johnson & Johnson for up to 175 million pounds ($230 million), raising its bet…
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UM Ventures Announces Expanded Role for Seasoned Entrepreneur Darryl L. Carter as Venture Advisor – UM Ventures
Today, University of Maryland (UM) Ventures announced the appointment of Darryl L. Carter, MD, co-founder and former vice president of Nora Therapeutics, Inc., as…
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Montgomery County company begins work on Zika vaccine – Story
Zika has been in the spotlight lately with summer in full swing and the Olympics in Rio just around the corner. A company in…
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Reltio Raises $22M to Build on Leadership in Modern Data Management
Reltio, the enterprise data-driven applications and modern data management Platform as a Service (PaaS) company, announced today that it has raised $22M in Series…
Read MoreForbes says this is the ‘best-performing company’ in Maryland
Forbes has published a new feature on the "Best Performing Company in Each State." The magazine "tracked the total return of every public company…
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Job Announcement: SENIOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE – State of Maryland
The Maryland Department of Commerce is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Senior Business Development Representative within its Division of Business & Industry…
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BioAdvance made $2.9M in investments in fiscal 2016 – Philadelphia Business Journal
BioAdvance, the operator of a $50 million early stage life sciences fund that work with health-care entrepreneurs in the mid-Atlantic region, invested $2.9 million…
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Baltimore entrepreneur wants to deliver healthy living to you in a box – Baltimore Business Journal
Subscription boxes are a growing business trend. About a year and a half ago, Fatima Dicko founded mybestbox, a subscription-based business which delivers boxes…
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SEC Proposes Amendments To Definition Of “Smaller Reporting Company” To Expand Availability – Corporate/Commercial Law – United States
On June 27, 2016, the SEC proposed amendments that, if adopted, would allow more companies to qualify for "smaller reporting company" (SRC) status. The…
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NEA leads Series B round for on-demand trucking service Transfix – PE HUB
New York City-based Transfix, an on-demand trucking provider, has raised $22 million in Series B funding. New Enterprise Associates led the round with participation…
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Inside Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter’s Latest Production
At Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) in La Jolla, California, more than two dozen machines work around the clock, sequencing one human genome every 15…
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The Long Road to Obama’s Cancer Moonshot
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