BioHealth News Archive
Roche gets jump on rivals in race for progressive MS treatment – ET HealthWorld
Switzerland's Roche has moved into pole position in the race to launch the world's first treatment for progressive multiple sclerosis but smaller players are…
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Medtronic Grant For Health Incubator
Medtronic, the international medical technology and services company, announced that it has received a grant from the Israeli government to launch a digital medicine…
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Accelerator Corporation Completes $62.8 Million Oversubscribed Financing – MarketWatch
Accelerator Corporation, a leading life science investment and management firm, today announced that it has secured an additional $11.7 million in new investment commitments,…
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Exclusive: Restaurants and retail — and lots of research — all part of Inova’s vision for Exxon Mobil campus (Video) – Washington Business Journal
Health-focused restaurants and retailers, as well as technology-centered businesses, will someday be a part of Inova Health System's Center for Personalized Health, officials said…
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Top 10 Pharma Firms of 2015 – GEN
Big pharma has a big public perception problem among Americans, according to Gallup poll results released September 14. Of more than 1,000 Americans polled,…
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University vs. industry: Boston gathering takes on biotech’s longstanding divide – Boston Business Journal
It was like any other contest where startup founders pitch their ideas to a skeptical audience, except the majority of the people doing the…
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A Johns Hopkins team designed an Ebola suit so good, it’s going on the market – The Washington Post
Youseph Yazdi was surprised by the number of people who jumped in to help design better protective gear for people helping Ebola victims –…
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Expanding the Reach of Precision Medicine – Promising Practices – Management – GovExec.com
Readers of the NIH Director’s Blog know how excited I am about the potential of precision medicine for revolutionizing efforts to treat disease and…
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Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse Accelerator Fund II closes on $4 million, could raise as much as $12 million – Pittsburgh Business Times
The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse Accelerator Fund II has closed on $4 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commisison.…
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Sisu Global Heath wins $100,000 investment from AOL co-founder Steve Case – Baltimore Sun
A Baltimore startup that developed a surgical tool to recycle the blood of a patient suffering from internal bleeding landed a $100,000 investment Monday…
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Roche Drug First to Clear Clinical Trials for Hard-to-Treat Form of Multiple Sclerosis – Scientific American
Switzerland's Roche has moved into pole position in the race to launch the world's first treatment for progressive multiple sclerosis but smaller players are…
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NIH Wants to License Out a Mobile App to the Private Sector – Nextgov.com
The National Institutes for Health is trying to commercialize its inventions by licensing them out, a new Federal Register notice shows. The technology available…
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The beginning of Precision Medicine marks the beginning of the end of common diseases…
The use of a patient's or tumor's DNA sequence to diagnose/characterize a disease and select or discover drugs that have the highest likelihood of…
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Vtesse, Inc. Initiates Phase 2b/3 Clinical Trial of VTS-270 for Treatment of Niemann-Pick Type C1 (NPC) Disease
Vtesse, Inc. today announced that the first three patients have been screened for inclusion in its pivotal Phase 2b/3 clinical trial with VTS-270 for…
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‘Megafund’ proposed to spur drug development for rare disease – The Boston Globe
Three years ago, MIT finance professor Andrew Lo proposed rallying private investors to raise an eye-popping $30 billion to develop cancer drugs. That idea…
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