BioHealth News Archive
Emergent BioSolutions produces new Ebola vaccine, teaming with NIH, GlaxoSmithKline – Baltimore Sun
At its growing East Baltimore facility, Emergent BioSolutions has produced a booster shot to go with a leading Ebola vaccine candidate, joining a competitive…
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Emergent completes proof-of-concept production of new Ebola vaccine – Pharmaceutical Business Review
US-based Emergent BioSolutions has completed proof-of concept manufacturing of a modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) Ebola Zaire vaccine candidate (MVA EBOZ). The MVA Ebola Zaire…
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Peter Thiel Invests in Anti-Aging Cure – MIT Technology Review
Peter Thiel is the co-founder of PayPal, the investor who discovered Facebook, and the author of Zero to One, a short account of the…
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Who would win the women’s NCAA tournament if the games were decided by academic performance? @insidehighered
Welcome to the fourth annual Inside Higher Ed academic bracket for the National Collegiate Athletic Association women's basketball tournament. With this bracket, how teams…
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Gaithersburg’s Emergent BioSolutions manufactures Ebola vaccine candidate for clinical trials with GlaxoSmithKline – Washington Business Journal
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. has manufactured a possible Ebola vaccine that could serve as the booster for GlaxoSmithKline's frontrunner candidate in the international race to…
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Mayo Clinic Surgeons Investigate Use of Drones for Medicine
Commercially available unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have gotten pretty amazing and quite cheap over the last few years, thanks to…
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NHLBI Funding & Research Opportunities and Announcements for March 16, 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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Who would win the NCAA tournament if the games were decided by academic performance? @insidehighered
It's time once again to fill out those March Madness brackets, and what better way to predict the winner of this year's National Collegiate…
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MacroGenics Initiates Phase 1 Study of MGD010 for the Treatment of Autoimmune Disorders Nasdaq:MGNX
MacroGenics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGNX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing innovative monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, as well…
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Johns Hopkins gears up for more startups
Johns Hopkins University is making its move. The institution has been promising — threatening — to be a bigger player in technology commercialization, the…
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5 DC-Area Colleges Ranked Best Universities in the World | DC Inno
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-2015 list was released Friday, effectively depicting the best universities from across the globe. The D.C. area made a…
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Agenda for Learning from Each Other: U.S. and European Perspectives on SBIR
Learning from Each Other: U.S. and European Perspectives on Small Business Innovation Programs March 19, 2015 Lecture Room National Academy of Sciences 2100…
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Maryland Senate confirms Gill as economic development secretary – Baltimore Sun
The Maryland Senate confirmed R. Michael Gill on Friday as Gov. Larry Hogan's secretary of business and economic development. lRelated POLITICS Hogan transportation nomination…
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University of Maryland High School Innovation Challenge
Compete for $500 and earn credibility by winning a prestigious competition from one of the top entrepreneurship schools in the country. The University of…
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Top 12 hot spots for tech startups and workers (outside San Francisco and Silicon Valley) – SelfStorage.com Moving Blog
It’s not exactly news that the San Francisco Bay Area is a hot spot for tech startups, but let’s say you’re ambitious, talented and…
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