BioHealth News Archive
FDA 2015: A Look Back (and Ahead) – Part 1: Medical Product Innovation – FDA Voice
As the year draws to a close, I want to reflect on FDA’s many accomplishments in these previous 12 months, the last nine of…
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Five Digital Health Technologies from Aging 2.0 Pitch4Pilots – Boomer Health Tech Watch
Older adults can be the focus of emerging digital health firms. Kudos to Aging 2.0 and its effort to find an attract startups…
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Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development – The New York Times
Most people would agree that it would be better to prevent cancer, if we could, than to treat it once it developed. Yet economic…
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Bethesda-based biotech firm Northwest Biotherapeutics raises $12.6 million in latest offering – Baltimore Business Journal
Bethesda-based Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc. is raising $12.6 million in new funding as part of a direct offering to health care-focused investors, according to a…
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Innovation vs. Healthcare Spending: Biotech’s Biggest Looming Challenge – Xconomy
We are at the beginning of a transformation in human health, treating diseases in ways that we could only speculate about in the recent…
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The Best Medical Technologies of 2015 – Medgadget
As we look back on the medtech developments of 2015 there’s definitely a sense that we’re living through revolutionary times. Nearly every day exciting and…
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The Best Biomedicine Stories of 2015 – MIT Technology Review
Biologists often emphasize how little anyone really knows about the brain, the genome, and the mechanisms behind effective drugs. But this year their tune…
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Job Opportunity: Frederick Innovative Technology Center – Executive Director – Jobs – Tech Frederick
The Executive Director is a full-time, benefited position which serves as CEO of the organization, reports to the Board of Directors, and is responsible…
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Sucampo Shifts Into Growth Mode With Hard-Charging CEO At The Helm – Investors.com
Like many CEOs, Peter Greenleaf knows that disagreements will inevitably arise among smart, driven executives. He says the best leaders serve as aligners who…
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Emergent introduces spin-off’s board of directors – BioPrepWatch
Emergent Biosolutions has announced the selection of its spin-off company’s board of directors. The spin-off company, Aptevo Therapeutics Inc., was announced by the Emergent…
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Emergent BioSolutions Inc. to spin out new publicly traded cancer biotech Aptevo Therapeutics – Baltimore Business Journal
Maryland-based Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) will spin out cancer research group Aptevo Therapeutics into its own publicly traded company to be based in…
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AstraZeneca gout medicine receives FDA approval – Philadelphia Business Journal
The Food and Drug Administration granted marketing approval to AstraZeneca’s gout medicine Zurampic. Zurampic was approved as combination therapy with a xanthine oxidase inhibitors…
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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
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
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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