BioHealth News Archive
Five winning proposals selected in Johns Hopkins Idea Lab challenges – Hub
Helping individuals returning from incarceration pay for housing, mentoring high school students to build robotic cars, and providing a system to reuse dorm furnishings…
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IBM Collaborates with UMB on Cognitive Computing Cybersecurity Lab
IBM today announced a multi-year, cognitive computing collaboration with the University of Maryland in Baltimore on an Accelerated Cognitive Cybersecurity Laboratory (ACCL). It’s the…
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Sirnaomics raises $10 mln in Series B funding led by Value Measured – PE HUB
Hong-Kong based Value Measured Investment Limited led a $10 million Series B financing in Sirnaomics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focusing on RNAi therapeutics. The funding…
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GenVec Announces $5 Million At-The-Market Offering
GenVec, Inc. (NasdaqCM: GNVC) ("GenVec" or "the Company"), today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with institutional investors for an offering of…
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Johns Hopkins’ Daniels talks higher education, innovation at Milken conference – Hub
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels was among the panelists at the Milken Institute's Global Conference last week, taking part in a discussion…
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Under Armour’s President of Innovation Talks 3D Shoes+ More – Footwear News
Kevin Haley doesn’t pay attention to the competition. As president of product and innovation for Under Armour, he encourages his team to ignore the noise…
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Maryland Chamber names new CEO – Baltimore Business Journal
Kathy Snyder can go back to the beach now. Snyder came out of retirement last year to once again take over the Maryland Chamber…
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Personal Genome Diagnostics names first CEO – Technical.ly Baltimore
After six years of existence and raising more than $20 million, Personal Genome Diagnostics has its first full-time CEO. Douglas Ward will head the…
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Develop 3D Printable Bones Using Real Bone Cells – 3DPrint.com
According to Johns Hopkins researchers, every year due to birth defect, trauma or cancer, more than 200,000 people will need replacement bones in their…
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UMBC and IBM Research launch Accelerated Cognitive Cybersecurity Lab through new collaboration – UMBC NEWS
UMBC and IBM Research have announced an exciting new collaboration to create the Accelerated Cognitive Cybersecurity Lab (ACCL), opening at UMBC in fall 2016.…
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Inova Health System to launch new business accelerator at Inova Center for Personalized Health – Washington Business Journal
The move to open an accelerator is part of the health system's goal to create a place for personalized health ideas to "percolate," says…
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Lockheed Martin makes major STEM push to inspire young space innovators – Fox News
Lockheed Martin wants to inspire the next generation of American space innovators with a major Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) education project. Launched…
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HHS announces challenge to redesign the medical bill for patients – HHS.gov
Speaking at the annual Health Datapalooza conference today, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced a challenge to encourage…
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Jonathan Aberman: The dirty little secret about venture capitalists – The Washington Post
As I take part in panel discussions on the investor’s perspective on startup financing and growth, it strikes me how formulaic these events tend…
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Emergent files paperwork for new immuno-oncology spin-off – BioPrepWatch
Emergent BioSolutions announced April 15 that it has begun the formal process of separating some of its assets to form a separate entity, which…
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