BioHealth News Archive
UofL receives NIH REACH award to create new ExCITE Hub program
The University of Louisville announced today that a grant from the National Institutes of Health will combine with matching funds from the university to…
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Teva bids $40bn for fellow generic drug maker Mylan
Pharmaceutical company Teva has offered to buy fellow drug maker Mylan in a deal that could be worth $40 billion. In the proposal, confirmed…
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FDA to award $1M EHR mining grant for drug-safety surveillance
The Food and Drug Administration is making as much as $1 million in grant funding available for mining a large database of electronic health…
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Core Program Leadership Montgomery Applications Are Due
CORE PROGRAM APPLICATION DEADLINE 5 PM, FRIDAY, MAY 1ST The Core Program is Leadership Montgomery’s (LM) hallmark program. It is a highly interactive…
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BHI Portfolio Company Mimetas publishes Paper demonstrating iPS neuronal differentiation in OrganoPlates
A hallmark of Parkinson's disease is the progressive loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons. We derived human neuroepithelial cells from induced pluripotent stem cells and…
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Boston-based Care at Hand says it will ‘disrupt’ Maryland health care with home health care app – Washington Business Journal
What if the answer to reducing health costs of the most expensive patients stems from listening to the hunches of home care workers with…
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NYC Early-Stage Life Sciences Funding Initiative – NYCEDC
The City of New York Early-Stage Life Sciences Funding Initiative represents an unprecedented public-private partnership across world-class academic institutions, industry leaders, top-tier investors, and the…
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Qiagen Germantown campus expanding in size and scope – Gazette.Net
The Qiagen campus in Germantown is large, open and modern looking. Its 25-acre site on Germantown Road houses a mostly glass office building connected…
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Double the N.I.H. Budget – NYTimes.com
NO one who lived through the 1990s would have suspected that one day people would look back on the period as a golden age…
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Incentives for a biotech ecosystem – Smart Incentives
The life sciences community presented a vision this week in which the Washington, DC region becomes a top 3 biotech hub by 2023. What…
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Neil Veloso Appointed as New Executive Director of Technology Transfer
From Christy Wyskiel,Senior Advisor to the President, Johns Hopkins University Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that Neil Veloso will join Johns Hopkins…
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DC Tech: Startup Venture Capital Funding in DC Area, Q1 2015 – DC Inno
A few months into 2015, D.C.’s tech industry is continuing to prove itself a major region for venture capital investing interest. Based on an NVCA/PwC…
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MaxCyte and Johns Hopkins University Announce Strategic Immuno-Oncology Collaboration to Advance CAR T-cell Therapies | Business Wire
MaxCyte® Inc., the pioneer in cell therapies using scalable, high-performance cell transfection systems, today announces a strategic research collaboration with Johns Hopkins University (JHU)…
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Ike Leggett to take Montgomery County economic development in new direction (Video) – Washington Business Journal
The end may be near for Montgomery County’s Department of Economic Development. County Executive Ike Leggett, speaking in North Bethesda as a panelist during…
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Here are the 5 largest health systems in Greater Baltimore – Baltimore Business Journal
The list of the top five health systems in the Baltimore area was static this year, with Johns Hopkins at No. 1 and Mercy…
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