BioHealth News Archive
How a Coney Island sideshow advanced medicine for premature babies
It was Coney Island in the early 1900’s. Beyond the Four-Legged Woman, the sword swallowers, and “Lionel the Lion-Faced Man,” was an entirely different…
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OSTP needs speakers to talk future of challenge prizes
The White House is getting ready to honor five years since the creation of Challenge.gov — the central web portal for government competitions intended…
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Synthetic Biologics Announces Public Offering of Common Stock – MarketWatch
Synthetic Biologics, Inc. (nyse mkt:SYN), a clinical-stage company focused on developing therapeutics to protect the microbiome while targeting pathogen-specific diseases, today announced that it…
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The Best Cities for Diversity in STEM – SmartAsset.com
Jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) represent some of the best opportunities for workers in today’s economy. The work can be rewarding as well…
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Top 20 Biopharma IPOs of January-June 2015 – GEN
The truism about biopharma being a global industry has never been truer than when it comes to the top 20 IPOs for the first…
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Where Should Pharma Hunt For Academic Innovation?
I’m a huge fan of R&D collaborations between pharma and academia, so I should be thrilled by Sanofi’s latest tie-up with seven top-tier centers…
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NHLBI Funding & Research Opportunities and Announcements for July 21, 2015
Funding and Research Opportunities The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of…
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Emergent Bio snags $20M BARDA contract for Ebola mAbs – Seeking Alpha
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)…
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U.S. companies raise record-breaking venture capital. Again. – The Washington Post
American companies continued to attract eye-watering sums of money from venture capitalists in the last quarter, according to a report released Friday. U.S. firms…
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JHU’s new Technology Ventures helps brings ideas to the marketplace – Hub
Last fall, David Narrow and his colleagues reached a critical juncture in the development of their fledgling medical technology company, Sonavex. As Narrow puts…
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Johns Hopkins Student Developed Noninvasive Brain Stimulator May Ease Parkinson’s Symptoms – Parkinson’s News Today Parkinson’s News Today
Symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease include tremor, muscle stiffness, and slowed movement that make it difficult to execute such simple tasks as holding an…
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FastForward East to Quadruple in Size, Fuel Baltimore Tech Boom – JHTV
The May 15 groundbreaking ceremony for Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures’ new FastForward East location at 1812 Ashland Ave. was about more than just the…
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Johns Hopkins Team Wins Entrepreneurs’ Choice Award at Venture Capital Competition – JHTV
Johns Hopkins works not only to foster startups whose products have the potential to improve the well-being of people all over the world, but…
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GSK, Francis Crick Institute to Partner on Open R&D Projects
The Francis Crick Institute, the UK’s newest biomedical research facility, and GSK, the UK’s largest pharmaceutical company, are to partner on an open innovation…
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‘Organs-on-chips’ go mainstream – Nature
Researchers who are developing miniature models of human organs on plastic chips have touted the nascent technology as a way to replace animal models.…
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