BioHealth News Archive
NHLBI Funding & Research Opportunities and Announcements for April 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 interest:…
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Tokai Pharmaceuticals Announces Preclinical Results from the University of Maryland Showing Galeterone and Analogs Inhibit Pancreatic Cancer Cell Growth | Business Wire
Tokai Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:TKAI), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapies for prostate cancer and other hormonally-driven diseases, today announced that scientists…
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BREP Rocks Rockville at the May BioBuzz! – May 20th
Thanks to our back to back April/May sponsor, The University of Maryland's Biotech Research and Education Program (BREP), who is sponsoring the upcomig event…
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Intellectual Property Basics of the New Innovator – Google+
MAY 12, 2015, 2-3 pm ET The landscape of potential customers for biomedical products can be complicated, with patients, providers and payers assigning different…
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UMB Institute for Genome Sciences – UM BioPark
The Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS), created in 2007, is an inter-disciplinary, multi-departmental team of collaborative investigators within the University of Maryland School of…
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DARPA Sponsors New Self-Administered Pain-Free Blood Testing Tech
Blood draws typically require trained professionals to perform and can be both frightening and painful to patients. Tasso, Inc., a spinoff of the Unviersity…
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Can tech incubator 1776 cook up its own business? – The Washington Post
The tech incubator 1776 is a collegial place, with offices painted in lively colors, couches to greet visitors, and members who share seats, desks…
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At HIMSS, DeSalvo, Slavitt stay optimistic about health IT’s future
In the face of growing criticism and impatience with the Meaningful Use EHR incentive program, National Health IT Coordinator Dr. Karen DeSalvo remains upbeat but…
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Washington’s venture capital machine churning out fewer but much larger deals – The Washington Post
Washington companies raised more venture capital funding in the first quarter than they have during the first three months of any year in more…
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Northrop Grumman and bwtech@UMBC Graduate Fifth Cyber Startup from Cync Incubator Program NYSE:NOC
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the bwtech@UMBC Cyber Incubator announced today that continuous monitoring solutions provider DB Networks® will be the fifth cyber startup…
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What is 1776 trying to become? – Washington Business Journal
The news broke just after midnight Thursday that D.C. tech accelerator 1776 would acquire Disruption Corp. — both its Crystal Tech Fund, which currently…
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CEO’s Note: Dreaming It in Charm City — Sisu Global Health
The field of blood study and blood-related product development is a small one, and the field of autotransfusion (blood recycling) is even smaller. It…
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Immunocore and MedImmune Announce New Collaboration to Conduct Immuno-oncology Combination Trails in Melanoma
AstraZeneca today announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has entered into a collaboration to conduct clinical trials in immuno-oncology with…
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Baltimore’s tech talent growth outpaces most other cities – Baltimore Business Journal
Baltimore may not have the startup mecca reputation of Silicon Valley or Boston, but it is one of the fastest growing tech talent markets.…
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How much of NEA’s new, $3.1 billion fund will finance healthcare companies? A third, perhaps.
Venture firm New Enterprise Associates made some massive waves today on news that it’s closed its fifteenth – and largest – fund, which holds $3.1 billion.…
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