BioHealth News Archive

UN Access to Medicines Panel Undermines Bayh-Dole  – IPWatchdog.com

UN Access to Medicines Panel Undermines Bayh-Dole  – IPWatchdog.com

Global epidemics are outrunning globally accessible containment and cures. There are now more ways to spread diseases worldwide than safe, effective ways to counter…

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UCC appoints first external president in 50 years | Irish Examiner

UCC appoints first external president in 50 years | Irish Examiner

The approval of Professor Patrick O’Shea’s selection by UCC’s governing body is the first external appointment to the role in 50 years. Most of…

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How Many Researchers are Seeking SBIR/STTR Funding? – NIH Extramural Nexus

How Many Researchers are Seeking SBIR/STTR Funding? – NIH Extramural Nexus

We were pleased to see the interest in our recent blog on the unique number of investigators applying for and receiving NIH research project…

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QIAGEN Launches QIAsure Methylation Test to Determine Cervical Cancer Risk

QIAGEN Launches QIAsure Methylation Test to Determine Cervical Cancer Risk

QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the launch of the QIAsure Methylation Test, a novel CE-marked molecular diagnostic test for…

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NHLBI Funding & Research Opportunities and Announcements for June 10, 2016

NHLBI Funding & Research Opportunities and Announcements for June 10, 2016

Funding and Research OpportunitiesThe following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of interest:…

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Revolution Growth raises another $525 million for companies outside Silicon Valley – Washington Business Journal

Revolution Growth raises another $525 million for companies outside Silicon Valley – Washington Business Journal

The venture fund working to make sweetgreen and CustomInk into household names has raised more than half a billion dollars to double down on…

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When CEBR went to BIO…Global Cluster Hub

When CEBR went to BIO…Global Cluster Hub

The BIO 2016 Global Cluster Hub brought together cluster managers and key players from across the globe, with unique insights into the arrival of digital health…

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Merck’s accelerator to take start-ups to Silicon Valley – PMLiVE

Merck’s accelerator to take start-ups to Silicon Valley – PMLiVE

Merck has added a month-long Silicon Valley stay to the pot on offer for start-ups participating in the next round of its accelerator programmes…

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Hoyer to pitch manufacturing plan with emphasis on entrepreneurship – Baltimore Sun

Hoyer to pitch manufacturing plan with emphasis on entrepreneurship – Baltimore Sun

Rep. Steny Hoyer and other Democratic lawmakers plan to outline a broad strategy for expanding U.S. manufacturing in Baltimore on Monday, at a time…

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Industry to DOD: There’s Innovation in the Beltway, Too – Nextgov.com

Industry to DOD: There’s Innovation in the Beltway, Too – Nextgov.com

The Pentagon has made an unprecedented push to cozy up with Silicon Valley over the past two years, opening satellite offices on the West…

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WellDoc® Announces Results of a Collaborative Study Showing Sustained Patient Engagement through the Use of BlueStar® and Lay Coaching

WellDoc® Announces Results of a Collaborative Study Showing Sustained Patient Engagement through the Use of BlueStar® and Lay Coaching

Digital health technology leader WellDoc® today announced results from a real-world study designed to evaluate the feasibility and reach of using a lay coach…

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Roche helps genomics software player Omicia to $23M Series B – FierceBiotech

Roche helps genomics software player Omicia to $23M Series B – FierceBiotech

Omicia has raised $23 million from Roche’s ($RHHBY) venture fund and other investors. The Series B round will support the expansion of Omicia’s NGS…

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Governor McAuliffe Announces 2016 Research Commercialization Awards ⋅ Charlottesville Tomorrow

Governor McAuliffe Announces 2016 Research Commercialization Awards ⋅ Charlottesville Tomorrow

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today $3.4 million in funding to support 48 Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) awards representing targeted areas of promising research…

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Incubator for life-science startups now a nonprofit

Incubator for life-science startups now a nonprofit

BioLogic, the Cincinnati region's only life science incubator, is trying to turn local entrepreneurs’ ideas for improving human health into reality. Now the incubator…

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Full Schedule Released for the 2016 Biomanufacturing Technology Summit

Full Schedule Released for the 2016 Biomanufacturing Technology Summit

DATE: Thursday, June 23, 2016 TIME: 8:30 a.m. Therapeutic proteins represent a number of the currently top 10 best-selling drugs and have combined sales…

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