BioHealth News Archive

One Week Left to Register for the 2015 FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting and I2C Conference!

One Week Left to Register for the 2015 FLC Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting and I2C Conference!

This year’s FLC Mid-Atlantic regional meeting will take place in conjunction with the Innovation 2 Commercialization (I2C) Conference November 2 – 3 at the…

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OneVest Launches “1000 Angels” to Reinvent Venture Capital – Crowdfund Insider

OneVest Launches “1000 Angels” to Reinvent Venture Capital – Crowdfund Insider

Onevest, a New York based investment crowdfunding platform focused on funding start-up entities, has announced the launching today of its new “1,000 Angles” crowdfunding…

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Bob Buchanan, Ronald Paul and Adventist’s Terry Forde to head MoCo economic development – Washington Business Journal

Bob Buchanan, Ronald Paul and Adventist’s Terry Forde to head MoCo economic development – Washington Business Journal

Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett has named the 11 local business leaders who will be charged with steering the county's nascent economic development corporation.…

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Health-care innovation sector having outsized impact on state economy, new study finds – GeekWire

Health-care innovation sector having outsized impact on state economy, new study finds – GeekWire

More than 770 health care innovation companies are operating in Washington state, representing 6 percent of jobs in the state’s health-care industry, but producing more…

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MacroGenics teams up with Merck for cancer immunotherapy trial – Washington Business Journal

MacroGenics teams up with Merck for cancer immunotherapy trial – Washington Business Journal

Rockville's MacroGenics Inc. is moving deeper into the cancer immunotherapy space with a new big pharma partnership. The clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on…

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Startup Maryland just put 138 startup pitches on YouTube – Technical.ly Baltimore

Startup Maryland just put 138 startup pitches on YouTube – Technical.ly Baltimore

The Startup Maryland bus rolled around the state for three weeks last month. Mike Binko and company cruised through Baltimore with Steve Case’s Rise of…

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Georgetown Biotech Internship

Georgetown Biotech Internship

Georgetown University Biotechnology MS students seek unpaid internship in business or lab-related project in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.  Students will spend minimum 280…

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Is venture capital bad for life sciences? 3 reasons why (and what should replace it) – MedCity NewsMedCity News

Is venture capital bad for life sciences? 3 reasons why (and what should replace it) – MedCity NewsMedCity News

Has venture capital always been a bad model for the life sciences? Andrew Lo, director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, dismissed the…

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FLC awards Program – Call for Nominations

FLC awards Program – Call for Nominations

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2016 FLC awards. One of the most coveted honors in the technology transfer field, the FLC awards…

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Startup Maryland Unveils Participants for the “Pitch Across Maryland” Tour and Celebration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Startup Maryland Unveils Participants for the “Pitch Across Maryland” Tour and Celebration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

138 Startups Now Compete for Fan Favorite and Finalist Designations Until Midday on Friday, November 6 Startup Maryland™ unveils the 138 video pitches from the participants in…

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Vtesse, Inc. Expands Scientific Advisory Board and Appoints New VP of Clinical Operations to Support Late-Stage Clinical Study of Lead Drug Candidate VTS-270

Vtesse, Inc. Expands Scientific Advisory Board and Appoints New VP of Clinical Operations to Support Late-Stage Clinical Study of Lead Drug Candidate VTS-270

Vtesse, Inc. announced today the addition of Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Neurological Sciences and Biochemistry at Rush University Medical Center to…

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Meenan Unveils ‘New Frontier for Innovation’ – University of Maryland, Baltimore

Meenan Unveils ‘New Frontier for Innovation’ – University of Maryland, Baltimore

Enthusiastic, animated, and innovative, Christopher Meenan left no doubt why he was among UMB’s 2015 Founders Week award winners with an insightful and entertaining…

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The $750 Per Pill AIDS Drug Now Has $1 Competition – TIME

It's part of a a new program called Imprimis Cares that will make over 7,800 FDA-approved generic drugs available at an affordable price. A…

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Techstars partners with famed hospital on healthcare accelerator

Techstars partners with famed hospital on healthcare accelerator

Like Disney and the Dodgers before it, Cedars-Sinai is partnering on an industry-specific technology accelerator in Los Angeles. The nonprofit hospital in the Beverly…

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The Latest Medical Breakthrough In Spinal Cord Injuries Was Made By A Computer Program

The Latest Medical Breakthrough In Spinal Cord Injuries Was Made By A Computer Program

Doctors have just discovered a previously unknown relationship between the long-term recovery of spinal cord injury victims and high blood pressure during their initial…

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