BioHealth News Archive
Meet the 2015 Challenge Cup Champion and Global Winners – Meet the 2015 Challenge Cup Champion and Global Winners – 1776
Six months after the search began, 1776 is proud to announce that judges selected Twiga Fruits as the 2015 Challenge Cup Champion. Twiga has created a market…
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PwC Report: Biotech beating medtech hollow in venture capital – MedCity News
Yet another report’s pointing out biotech’s bullish venture appeal – and how medical device investment continues to flag. In fact, biotechnology funding for human…
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Could Crowdfunding Help Finance Future Research? – Discovery News
The U.S. congress has proposed budgets cuts for research, but more and more scientists are turning to crowdfunding to bring their projects to light.…
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Why this cybersecurity startup is moving from Virginia to Maryland – Technical.ly Baltimore
When this year’s winners of the InvestMaryland Challenge were announced, Bricata stood out. Amid the Maryland companies who finished atop the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development competition, the cybersecurity…
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Half of Osage University Partners’ new $215M fund aimed at life sciencesMedCity News
Osage University Partners, a Philadelphia-area venture firm that only invests in tech transfer spinouts, just closed its second fund – valued at $215 million. About half of that…
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NIH gets on the tech transfer startup wagon; announces winners of Neuro Startup Challenge – MedCity NewsMedCity News
The NIH has jumped onto the whole startup challenge-meets-accelerator trend – using it as a way to galvanize the private sector into licensing the government’s…
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Baltimore companies take top honors at TEDCO awards – Baltimore Business Journal
Baltimore entrepreneurs cleaned up at the Maryland Technology Development Corp.’s annual ICE Awards, which recognize some of TEDCO’s most successful portfolio companies. Analytical Informatics,…
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8 Truths You Need to Know About Cancer – Robyn Stoller
The statistics are staggering: 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. This means that…
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Maryland biotech firm lands region’s biggest financing round of 2015 – Baltimore Business Journal
The region's biggest venture capital raise of the year belongs to RegenxBio. The Rockville-based biotech company has closed a $70.5 million Series D round…
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Baltimore chosen for City Accelerator – Technical.ly Baltimore
Baltimore City was among five urban locales to be selected for the first-ever City Accelerator initiative. Run by Citigroup’s Citi Foundation and Living Cities,…
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QIAGEN opens new office in Kuala Lumpur as business expands in Malaysia – The Jakarta Post
QIAGEN today announced the opening of its new principal office in Malaysia to serve its growing base of customers for Sample to Insight solutions,…
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RELEVANT HEALTH ACCELERATOR NOW RECRUITING INAUGURAL CLASS OF HEALTH TECH STARTUPS FOR FALL 2015
Relevant Health, a newly launched innovative health technology startup accelerator focused on bringing products to market, announced that it is now accepting applications from…
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Emergent BioSolutions (EBS), ProMetic Life Sciences Enter Agreement Covering cGMP Facility
Emergent BioSolutions (NYSE: EBS) announced that it has signed a strategic long-term manufacturing agreement with ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. This agreement provides ProMetic access…
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GlaxoSmithKline plc (ADR) (NYSE:GSK) Unit Invests In PsiOxus Therapeutics $39 Million Fund Raising
The SR One VC unit of GlaxoSmithKline plc (ADR) (NYSE:GSK) has contributed in the Series C $39 million funding round of PsiOxus Therapeutics. The…
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Johns Hopkins researchers identify new therapy to treat lung cancer
A multidisciplinary team led by Johns Hopkins researcher Venu Raman, Ph.D., with notable contributions from Guus Bol, Farhad Vesuna and Phuoc Tran of Johns…
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