BioHealth News Archive

Intellectual Property Basics of the New Innovator – Google+

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

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

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

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

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’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 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

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

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

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’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.

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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Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Gaithersburg prepare to open wet lab incubator – Washington Business Journal

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Gaithersburg prepare to open wet lab incubator – Washington Business Journal

Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. is opening a Gaithersburg wet lab space in a project that may help fill a gap left when Montgomery…

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Roche aims for 11 late-stage trials in cancer immunotherapy drug this year – Yahoo News

Roche aims for 11 late-stage trials in cancer immunotherapy drug this year – Yahoo News

Roche aims to have an immunotherapy cancer drug in 11 late-stage trials by the end of the year, the Swiss drugmaker's head of medical…

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A real estate empire grows in Kendall Square – Business – The Boston Globe

A real estate empire grows in Kendall Square – Business – The Boston Globe

Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. made its first modest investment in Kendall Square about 14 years ago, developing a blocky five-story building it named…

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