BioHealth News Archive
Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Receives Orphan Drug Designation for STP-206 for Prevention of Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an orphan drug designation for the Company's investigational compound,…
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BioBuzz Baltimore – April 9th
We're back in Baltimore thanks to The University of Maryland's Biotech Research and Education Program (BREP) who is sponsoring this BioBuzz networking event on…
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The Top 20 Start-Up Accelerators in the U.S. – HBR
Start-up accelerators have become a prominent feature of the entrepreneurship landscape in recent years. New programs appear nearly every month, and in many ways,…
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Strand Collaborates with MRI Global on Indian Reference Lab, CDx – GenomeWeb
Strand Life Sciences today announced a partnership with MRI Global to open a reference laboratory in India and develop companion diagnostics. The partners will…
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UMBioPark startup may be acquired in $65 million deal – Baltimore Business Journal
A Baltimore startup that's developing a medical device to treat migraine headaches is in talks to be acquired by a global medical device company.…
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NHLBI Funding & Research Opportunities and Announcements for March 31, 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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Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. Awarded SBIR Grant From NIH for Nanoplasmid Peanut Allergy Vaccine Development
Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. ("ITI"), a privately-held biotechnology company developing vaccines based on its proprietary LAMP technology, today announces that the National Institutes of Health…
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HHS CTO Sivak leaving government in April
Chief technology officer at Health and Human Services, Bryan Sivak, is leaving the agency and retiring from federal government at the end of April,…
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MedImmune, BioHealth Innovation Inc., and Tech Council of Maryland chart path for region’s biotech community – Washington Business Journal
Could Greater Washington be one of the big three in biotech beside other market leaders like, say, Boston? That was certainly the rallying cry…
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Joel Marcus of Alexandria Real Estate on the Biotech Boom – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ
Biopharmaceutical venture capital investment climbed from $4.52 billion in 2013 to $5.29 billion in 2014, a 17% increase, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Joel…
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Top 10 states project profile: Qiagen’s North American Corporate Headquarters – U.S. Green Building Council
Maryland is no stranger to USGBC’s Top 10 States for LEED list, and every year it has a strong list of impressive LEED projects…
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Pieris Pharmaceuticals and The University of Melbourne Receive Research Grant to Advance Immunological Diseases Program
Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCQB: PIRS)and The University of Melbourne today announced the receipt by the University of a research grant to further develop Pieris'…
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NDA For WuXi MedImmune’s Monoclonal Antibody Accepted For Review By CFDA
WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc. (WX: Quote) announced that an Investigational New Drug or IND application for WuXi MedImmune's novel anti-IL6 monoclonal antibody for rheumatoid…
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Wearables win at the Sports Technology Awards in London
Swimtag and Brain Sentry were the winners at the 2015 Sports Technology Awards, at an event where wearable tech companies dominated the nominations. The…
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Maryland General Assembly Honors Chancellor Kirwan for 50 Years of Commitment to Higher Education in Maryland – USM
The Maryland General Assembly recently honored University System of Maryland (USM) Chancellor William E. "Brit" Kirwan with a special tribute. In both chambers of…
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