BioHealth News Archive
After major venture round, Rockville’s RegenxBio Inc. files for IPO – Washington Business Journal
Mere months after a major venture capital fundraise, Rockville-based biotech RegenxBio Inc. says it's ready to go public. UPCOMING EVENTS AUGUST 18, 2015 ,…
Read More
WuXi AppTec: Investor Relations – Press Releases
WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. ("WuXi" or the "Company") (NYSE: WX), a leading open-access R&D capability and technology platform company serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical…
Read More
Madison’s Healthtech Cluster: The Rise of Epic and Everybody Else | Xconomy
Healthcare, agriculture, and manufacturing remain the bread and butter of the private sector in Madison, WI, and the surrounding region, but healthcare IT has…
Read More
World’s first malaria vaccine approved after 30 years of trials | The Times
Scientists throughout are celebrating the scoop that the arena’s first vaccine towards malaria has been authorized by way of the . The vaccine, named…
Read More
MedImmune acquires Inovio HPV cancer treatment for $700 million
Inovio Pharmaceuticals has begun collaboration and sold the exclusive rights to an HPV types 16 and 18 vaccine to MedImmune, the biologics research and…
Read More
Can the Maryland region become a top biotech hub by 2023? – Baltimore Sun
The Maryland region is one of the richest sources of health care knowledge and research innovation in the world. Here you can find more…
Read More
Bill Gates Bets on Biotech’s “Next Big Thing” — The Motley Fool
It turns out that bacteria could hold a key to transforming how doctors treat disease -- at least that's what Editas, a privately held…
Read More
Rockville-based MacroGenics begins expansion in immunotherapy following $141 million fundraising round – Washington Business Journal
Biotech MacroGenics Inc. is growing its footprint, recently leasing 122,000 square feet of wet lab space in the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville.…
Read More
Here’s how to make a winning pitch to AOL co-founder Steve Case during his Rise of the Rest bus tour – Baltimore Business Journal
Entrepreneurs who want to pitch their business plan to Steve Case when his Rise of the Rest venture tour comes to Baltimore next month…
Read More
BioMark Diagnostics Unveils U.S. Strategy
BioMark Diagnostics Inc. ("BioMark" or the "Company") (CSE:BUX) (FSE:20B), a leader in next-generation diagnostics using metabolites, announces its strategy to expand operations into the…
Read More
Aeras Announces New CEO and Leadership Structure – Aeras
Aeras announced today a new leadership structure for the nonprofit biotech organization with Jacqueline E. Shea, Ph.D., the current Chief Operating Officer (COO), assuming…
Read More
Biotech Company Is Developing Transplantable Pig Organs For Humans – Popular Science
Every year, around 8,000 people die waiting for an organ transplant. There just doesn't seem to be enough human organs available for those who…
Read More
Emergent BioSolutions Receives $44 Million CDC Contract to Further Advance Vaccinia Immune Globulin Intravenous Program – MarketWatch
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. EBS, -1.75% today announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has exercised options under contract 200-2012-52242 for the…
Read More
Roche buys ‘superbug’ diagnostics firm for up to $425 million – Reuters
Roche (ROG.VX) is buying U.S. diagnostics firm GeneWEAVE BioSciences for up to $425 million, expanding the Swiss group's commitment to fighting so-called "superbugs" as…
Read More
“Innovating through the U.S. EDA” – T2 Speakers Series – Sept 9, 2015
TOPIC: "Innovating through the U.S. Economic Development Administration" PRESENTER: Julie Lenzer Kirk, Director Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship U.S. Economic Development Administration …
Read More