BioHealth News Archive

Universities at Shady Grove completes parking garage, moves closer to breaking ground on biomedical sciences building – Washington Business Journal

Universities at Shady Grove completes parking garage, moves closer to breaking ground on biomedical sciences building – Washington Business Journal

Construction is complete on a new 700-spot parking garage at Universities at Shady Grove, clearing the way to begin moving dirt on a planned…

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The Latest Breakthrough In Understanding Diabetes Was Made By An Algorithm

The Latest Breakthrough In Understanding Diabetes Was Made By An Algorithm

With the cost to sequence a human genome dropping by the day and medical records finally going digital, public health experts are excited for…

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TEDCO names new head of Maryland Venture Fund – Technical.ly Baltimore

TEDCO names new head of Maryland Venture Fund – Technical.ly Baltimore

Following the Maryland Venture Fund’s transition under TEDCO’s purview last month, there’s now a new director of the quasi-public, early-stage funding resource. Andy Jones…

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FDA broadens use of Emergent Biosolutions anthrax treatment – MarketWatch

FDA broadens use of Emergent Biosolutions anthrax treatment – MarketWatch

The Food and Drug Administration late Monday broadened the use of an already available anthrax drug from Emergent Biosolutions Inc. EBS, -0.57% to a…

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Alexandria Real Estate plans new 56-acre RTP campus – News & Observer

Alexandria Real Estate plans new 56-acre RTP campus – News & Observer

Real estate giant Alexandria Real Estate Equities has unveiled sweeping plans to transform a 56-acre Research Triangle Park site into a campus for life…

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Alexandria Rolls Out Plans for Its RTP Innovation Cluster – Xconomy

Alexandria Rolls Out Plans for Its RTP Innovation Cluster – Xconomy

Alexandria Real Estate Equities’ vision to turn a mostly undeveloped property in Research Triangle Park into its latest life science cluster is moving forward…

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The Daily Startup: SR One Launches Startup as Biotech VCs Move Upstream – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ

The Daily Startup: SR One Launches Startup as Biotech VCs Move Upstream – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ

Hot biotech startups are attracting increased venture funding, and venture investors are ensuring a slot in the financing of these types of companies by…

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Last chance to register for December 1 MD/Israel Business

Last chance to register for December 1 MD/Israel Business

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 | 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.The Observation Gallery at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Meet with over 30 companies and…

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Amid international growth, emocha gets grant to look at Maryland TB treatment – Technical.ly Baltimore

Amid international growth, emocha gets grant to look at Maryland TB treatment – Technical.ly Baltimore

emocha Mobile Health received a Small Business Innovation Research grant to further development of its mobile app that provides video-based healthcare observations in some cases…

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The role of big data in medicine – McKinsey & Company

The role of big data in medicine – McKinsey & Company

Most companies make a conscious and deliberate decision to embrace digitization and the information revolution. Yet the role of big data in medicine seems…

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Take a memo, Andreessen Horowitz: 4 areas where it should consider investments – MedCity NewsMedCity News

Take a memo, Andreessen Horowitz: 4 areas where it should consider investments – MedCity NewsMedCity News

This week, Andreessen Horowitz said it’s launching a fund dedicated to investments in bioinformatics and “beyond the pill” technology.  The venture capital firm had…

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New Center for Innovative Technology CEO Ed Albrigo will take his case for CIT’s worth statewide – Washington Business Journal

New Center for Innovative Technology CEO Ed Albrigo will take his case for CIT’s worth statewide – Washington Business Journal

The new president and chief executive officer of Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology has roots in high flight and high finance and every intention…

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Pfizer and Allergan Reach $150 Billion Merger Deal – The New York Times

Pfizer and Allergan Reach $150 Billion Merger Deal – The New York Times

Pfizer has clinched a blockbuster merger with a fellow drug maker, one worth more than $150 billion, that can best be described in superlatives.…

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AstraZeneca and Sanofi swap 210,000 compounds – The Chemical Engineer

AstraZeneca and Sanofi swap 210,000 compounds – The Chemical Engineer

PHARMACEUTICAL majors AstraZeneca and Sanofi have agreed to swap 210,000 compounds from their proprietary libraries as part of efforts to encourage open innovation in…

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Inauguration of USM’s Fourth Chancellor Robert L. Caret

Inauguration of USM’s Fourth Chancellor Robert L. Caret

Dr. Robert L. Caret was inaugurated as chancellor of the University System (USM) of Maryland on November 19, 2015 at the Christopher Columbus Center…

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