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New Dreamit class includes Baltimore health startup – Technical.ly Baltimore

New Dreamit class includes Baltimore health startup – Technical.ly Baltimore

A Baltimore health startup is among the new class of companies entering Dreamit’s accelerator program. Timonium-based Kermit was developed by a team that consulted…

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Join BioBuzz W/BHI & TEDCO Next Week at Relevant Health

Join BioBuzz W/BHI & TEDCO Next Week at Relevant Health

Join us on March 30th for an evening of networking around innovation and commercialization at the BioBuzz @ Relevant Health. Meet with the organizations…

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Successfully Commercializing Technology: Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur – T2 Speakers Series

Successfully Commercializing Technology: Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur – T2 Speakers Series

DATE: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 (FINAL EVENT) TIME: 3:30-5:00PM LOCATION: Montgomery County Department of Economic Development, 111 Rockville Pike, Suite 800, Rockville, MD 20850…

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TEDCO Invests $1.7 Million in 17 Maryland Startups – Tedco

TEDCO Invests $1.7 Million in 17 Maryland Startups – Tedco

The Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) announced today that 17 companies have received over $1.7 million in funding from the organization’s Technology Commercialization Fund…

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Relevant Health Holds Demo Day for Its Inaugural Cohort of Health Tech Startups

Relevant Health Holds Demo Day for Its Inaugural Cohort of Health Tech Startups

Announces New Investors in Accelerator ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, March 24, 2016 – At its first Demo Day on March 23, Relevant Health, a health technology…

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Roche Looks Outside Its Labs to Expand Cancer Drug’s Potential – Bloomberg Business

Roche Looks Outside Its Labs to Expand Cancer Drug’s Potential – Bloomberg Business

Roche Holding AG, the world’s largest producer of cancer drugs, is opening the door to more external partnerships as its latest and most promising…

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Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation (MCEDC) Takes Center Stage as County’s New Lead Business Development Organization

Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation (MCEDC) Takes Center Stage as County’s New Lead Business Development Organization

The Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation (MCEDC) was officially designated as the County’s Economic Development Organization by the County Council, marking a big and…

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Report: $50M seed fund will target health IT startups – MedCity News

Report: $50M seed fund will target health IT startups – MedCity News

An investment firm targeting seed stage investment in health IT and other software startups is raising a $50 million fund, according to a report…

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Dear Colleague Letter: Directorate for Engineering (ENG), Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP), Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) – Employment Opportunity for Program Director Positions (

Dear Colleague Letter: Directorate for Engineering (ENG), Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP), Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) – Employment Opportunity for Program Director Positions (

The Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP), within the Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation, announces a nationwide search to fill…

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Intralytix Receives USDA, NIFA Phase II SBIR Grant To Develop A Phage-Based Application To Protect Hatchery-Raised Oysters From The Bacterial Pathogens Vibrio tubiashii and Vibrio coralliilyticus

Intralytix Receives USDA, NIFA Phase II SBIR Grant To Develop A Phage-Based Application To Protect Hatchery-Raised Oysters From The Bacterial Pathogens Vibrio tubiashii and Vibrio coralliilyticus

Intralytix, Inc., announced today that the company has received a SBIR Phase II grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of…

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Controlling Diabetes with a Skin Patch

Attempting to free people with diabetes from frequent finger-pricks and drug injections, researchers have created an electronic skin patch that senses excess glucose in…

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Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Will Be Led By Leukemia Survivor Greg Simon – Fast Company

Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Will Be Led By Leukemia Survivor Greg Simon – Fast Company

The White House on Friday appointed an executive director of its Cancer Moonshot Task Force: Gregory C. Simon, a leukemia survivor with experience in…

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Why venture capital firms are pouring money into health insurance – Modern Healthcare Modern Healthcare business news, research, data and events

Why venture capital firms are pouring money into health insurance – Modern Healthcare Modern Healthcare business news, research, data and events

Entrepreneur Vivek Garipalli has a dim view of the way health insurance companies treat providers and patients. Patients develop trust with doctors and hospitals,…

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Diabetes tech firm Senseonics raises $45 million in Greater Washington’s first IPO of the year – Washington Business Journal

Diabetes tech firm Senseonics raises $45 million in Greater Washington’s first IPO of the year – Washington Business Journal

Medical device company Senseonics Holdings Inc. raised about $45 million last week in the first Greater Washington IPO of the year. Senseonics (NYSE: SENS)…

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HHS Idea Labs program awards $400,000 to ‘shark-tank’ survivors – FederalNewsRadio.com

HHS Idea Labs program awards $400,000 to ‘shark-tank’ survivors – FederalNewsRadio.com

While most agencies try to imitate advances in the private sector, the Department of Health and Human Services instead is emulating the process that…

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