BioHealth News Archive
Symbiomix Therapeutics Announces Closing of $41M Financing and Positive Results from a Pivotal Phase 2 Trial of SYM-1219 for the Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis – Symbiomix
Symbiomix Therapeutics today announced multiple milestones, including the closing of the third and final tranche of a $41 million Series A financing and positive…
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Biomecite Diagnostics Signs Option Agreement with UM Baltimore to Develop Tools to Detect… — BALTIMORE, May 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —
University of Maryland (UM) Ventures and Biomecite Diagnostics, LLC announced today the signing of an exclusive option by Biomecite Diagnostics for the rights from…
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Identifying and Connecting with Your Customer – Google+
Presenter:Rana GuptaPresident, Kwydk, LLC Moderator:Gary Robinson, Ph.D.National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute The landscape of potential customers for biomedical products can be complicated, with…
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1776, General Assembly, DC Mayor Announce Innovation Opportunity Program
Since it seems that 1776 can’t go a week without making news, they just announced an Innovation Opportunity Program that they are launching with…
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FDA approves Emergent’s hemophilia drug – Gazette.Net
Emergent BioSolutions of Gaithersburg has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its hemophilia drug Ixinity. The treatment, administered intravenously, helps…
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Washington’s Interest in Precision Drugs is Innovation, Not Cost – NationalJournal.com
On Tuesday, the Senate Health committee held a hearing on the promise of precision medicine. Last week, the House released draft legislation to support…
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Four to Be Named to Montgomery County Business Hall of Fame – Bethesda Beat
The Montgomery County Business Hall of Fame will add four new members later this year, including a former space issues attorney turned health company…
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America’s highest-paid female CEO shares vision of the future – South Florida Business Journal
Drug testing on humans and animals will be a thing of the past within two decades, United Therapeutics CEO Martine Rothblatt said Monday. Soon,…
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Top 20 Mobile Health (mHealth) Companies 2015 Innovators in Mobile Fitness, Telemedicine, eHealth & Remote Patient Monitoring – MarketWatch
The advent of connected devices and M2M is offering a tremendous opportunity for healthcare professionals. Near-ubiquitous mobile networks are allowing carers to diagnose, monitor,…
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Brightstone Venture Capital on overinflated startup valuations – and other advice for life sciences companies
Every venture firm’s looking for many multiples when it comes to returns – but in reality, they expect things to shake out a little…
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2 important things about the D.C. venture market, according to NextGen Angels CEO Dan Mindus – Washington Business Journal
NextGen Angels recently announced plans to bring its brand of under-40, entrepreneur-friendly angel investors to 12 more U.S. cities, with plans for international expansion…
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OpGen CEO not worried after stock falls in first day of trading – Washington Business Journal
Gaithersburg-based molecular diagnostics company OpGen Inc. went public Tuesday, and saw its shares drop more than 20 percent during the day before closing at…
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High-tech sensors help kids keep eye on aging parents | The Kansas City Star The Kansas City Star
Each time 81-year-old Bill Dworsky or his 80-year-old wife Dorothy opens the refrigerator, closes the bathroom door or lifts the lid on a pill…
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Soon-Shiong: We have ‘Google of genome mapping’
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has some big ideas in healthcare, like a vision of a fully connected ecosystem that truly empowers patients to make informed…
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QIAGEN Partners With World’s Largest Sequencing Provider
QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) announced today that it has expanded its relationship with BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, to…
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