BioHealth News Archive
A New Initiative on Precision Medicine – NEJM
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., and Harold Varmus, M.D. President Obama has long expressed a strong conviction that science offers great potential for improving…
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Johns Hopkins Cardiologist and BHI Client Dr. Ted Abraham Wins Grant to Develop Surgical Device – Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus
Perceptive Navigation, a medical device start-up company whose chief executive is Johns Hopkins cardiologist Dr. Ted Abraham, won a highly competitive Small Business Innovation…
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Thanks, Obama. We’ll call it precision medicine now – MedCity
President Obama’s settled the score on this one: It’s precision medicine. Not personalized medicine. The life sciences community has been throwing around both terms, but…
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Biotech investments hit a 15-year low in the Washington region – BHI’s Rich Bendis quoted
Biotechnology companies in the Washington region attracted less money from investors in 2014 than any other year since 1999, recent data show, even as the sector saw…
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Accelerator DreamIt Health moves to Power Plant Live – Baltimore Business Journal
DreamIt Health Baltimore is leasing 4,500 square feet of space at Power Plant Live!, a space Executive Director Jason Hardebeck envisions as a future…
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Writing Your Phase II Commercialization Plan – YouTube
February 10th at 2pm ET Every Phase II NIH SBIR/STTR application requires a commercialization plan, which essentially describes how the company plans bring its…
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Job Opportunity: Business Development Analyst at GenVec, Inc.
Position Summary GenVec is seeking a highly motivated professional who is able to make strong contributions in supporting all business and corporate development activities.…
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Qualcomm adds Roche as strategic partner for remote patient monitoring
Roche has become the latest pharmaceutical company to join the connected health party at Qualcomm Life — in this case to do remote patient…
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Here are the 9 worst states to live in if you have kids
Vaccinations are obviously a hot topic for debate – it’s exhausting. But with the recent measles outbreak at Disneyland, it’s even more clear that…
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Qiagen NV Looks To the Future (QGEN)
Qiagen NV (NASDAQ: QGEN ) solutions are used every day by healthcare providers to analyze patient DNA and RNA in order to guide treatment and…
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Benjamin Wu named Deputy Secretary of DBED – MDBIZNews
Benjamin H. Wu has been named the new Deputy Secretary of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, Governor Larry Hogan and DBED…
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The Life Science Venture Philanthropy Landscape – NEXT PHASE
LSN researchers recently decided to take a deep dive into interviews we have held with venture philanthropy groups from around the world to see…
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This Incubator Only Accepts Startups That Can Actually Improve The World – Business Insider
Every startup wants to change the world, but DC-based incubator and seed fund 1776 fosters the type of early stage companies that just might have a…
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Nanoscience takes MedImmune in a different direction … – Cambridge News
MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, is probably best known for its work in discovering and developing therapeutics based on…
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Sweeping plan to revamp biomedical innovation includes controversial ideas for NIH – Science/AAAS
A U.S. House of Representatives panel today released a widely anticipated proposal for speeding the development of new medical treatments. The massive, 393-page document,…
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