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TPG Growth invests $75M in precision medicine startupMedCity News

TPG Growth invests $75M in precision medicine startupMedCity News

Private equity firm TPG Growth just invested $75 million in Precision for Medicine, a Maryland-based startup that melds value-based care with precision medicine. We’re waiting to…

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AstraZeneca Expands Presence in Asia With Deals in China and Japan | Asian Scientist Magazine | Science, Technology and Medicine News Updates From Asia

AstraZeneca Expands Presence in Asia With Deals in China and Japan | Asian Scientist Magazine | Science, Technology and Medicine News Updates From Asia

Global biopharmaceutical business AstraZeneca has expanded its presence in Asia by entering two significant relationships with medical companies in China and Japan. A strategic…

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President Obama to Honor Nation’s Leading Scientists and Innovators – whitehouse.gov

President Obama to Honor Nation’s Leading Scientists and Innovators – whitehouse.gov

Today, the White House announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation—our Nation’s highest honors…

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NOT-HL-15-284: Request for Information: Optimizing the NHLBI Clinical Trials Enterprise: Performance Milestones and Metrics

NOT-HL-15-284: Request for Information: Optimizing the NHLBI Clinical Trials Enterprise: Performance Milestones and Metrics

NHLBI has issued the first in a series of Requests for Information (RFIs) to solicit input from its stakeholders on ways to optimize the…

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Venture capital in 2015: a look back – Bridge Bank – Be bold, venture wisely.

Venture capital in 2015: a look back – Bridge Bank – Be bold, venture wisely.

Venky Ganeson, managing director of Menlo Ventures and future chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, told Inc. that 2015 has been the third-strongest…

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Johns Hopkins Accountable Care Organization Achieves Perfect Quality Reporting Score – 12/22/2015

Johns Hopkins Accountable Care Organization Achieves Perfect Quality Reporting Score – 12/22/2015

When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued their 2014 quality and financial performance results in August, an accountable care organization (ACO)…

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OrbiMed Launches $950 Million Venture Capital Fund – Business Wire

OrbiMed Launches $950 Million Venture Capital Fund – Business Wire

OrbiMed, a leading investment firm focused on the healthcare sector, announced the closing of its next venture capital fund, OrbiMed Private Investments VI, LP,…

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GSK had the biggest global health breakthrough of 2015 – Fortune

GSK had the biggest global health breakthrough of 2015 – Fortune

It’s taken 30 years and more than $565 million to make it happen: the first-ever malaria vaccine. The innoculation, called Mosquirix, is the first…

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Alexandria Real Estate Equities: What Does It Do? – Market Realist

Alexandria Real Estate Equities: What Does It Do? – Market Realist

Headquartered in Pasadena, California, Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE) was founded by Joel S. Marcus and Jerry M. Sudarsky in 1994. The company is…

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Medigene AG announces key Management Changes – NASDAQ.com

Medigene AG announces key Management Changes – NASDAQ.com

Chief Scientific Officer Prof Dolores Schendel appointed new Chief Executive Officer of Medigene AG Dave Lemus appointed Chief Operating Officer of Medigene AG and…

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Eye cells grown at Johns Hopkins may lead to a cure for some forms of blindness – Baltimore Sun

Eye cells grown at Johns Hopkins may lead to a cure for some forms of blindness – Baltimore Sun

Drs. Donald Zack and Valentin Sluch spent 30 anxious days waiting for their experiment to yield results. They were eager to see if the…

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PE HUBBrace Pharma Capital leads $33 mln Series B funding in Navitor – PE HUB

PE HUBBrace Pharma Capital leads $33 mln Series B funding in Navitor – PE HUB

Brace Pharma Capital led a $33 million Series B funding in Navitor Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company. Other investors in the funding included Remeditex Ventures,…

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2016 Health Datapalooza VII Announces Nominations for Health Data Liberators Award Now Accepted

2016 Health Datapalooza VII Announces Nominations for Health Data Liberators Award Now Accepted

May 8 - 11, 2016 ANNOUNCING NOMINATIONS NEW BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE HEALTH DATA LIBERATORS AWARD The Datapalooza's Health Data Liberators Award recognizes extraordinary…

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Baltimore health IT firm DinnerTime lands contract with Evergreen Health Co-op – Baltimore Business Journal

Baltimore health IT firm DinnerTime lands contract with Evergreen Health Co-op – Baltimore Business Journal

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GSK to buy HIV drugs from Bristol-Myers Squibb for initial $350 million – Reuters

GSK to buy HIV drugs from Bristol-Myers Squibb for initial $350 million – Reuters

Pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline said its majority-owned HIV business would buy drugs at different stages of development from U.S. rival Bristol-Myers Squibb for an initial…

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