BioHealth News Archive

Interactive Map: Where Venture Capital Was Invested in 2014 – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ

Interactive Map: Where Venture Capital Was Invested in 2014 – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ

Venture capital investment soared in 2014, hitting a high that hasn’t been seen since 2000. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, $52.12 billion was…

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February Funding Deadlines in Cystic Fibrosis, Microfluidic
Platforms, and Stem Cell-Derived Blood Product Technologies

February Funding Deadlines in Cystic Fibrosis, Microfluidic Platforms, and Stem Cell-Derived Blood Product Technologies

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has 3 targeted funding opportunities with deadlines in February. It’s also not too early to start…

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Startup Maryland Announces Shahab Kaviani as Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Startup Maryland Announces Shahab Kaviani as Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Startup Maryland (www.startupmd.org) today announced appointment of serial entrepreneur Shahab Kaviani as Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR). A recognized leader of startup communities globally, Kaviani brings over…

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PharmAthene awarded $195M judgment in Siga case – Washington Business Journal

PharmAthene awarded $195M judgment in Siga case – Washington Business Journal

PharmAthene Inc. now knows how much money it stands to get in its long-running lawsuit with Siga Technologies Inc.: A judge Thursday said Siga…

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DreamIt Health alum Protenus ramps up after starting ‘from scratch’ – Technical.ly Baltimore

DreamIt Health alum Protenus ramps up after starting ‘from scratch’ – Technical.ly Baltimore

Nick Culbertson was a Green Beret. Robert Lord worked at a hedge fund in Connecticut. Then after a career change, both found themselves in…

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How Technology Will Eat Medicine – Vivek Wadhwa

How Technology Will Eat Medicine – Vivek Wadhwa

The most significant announcement that Apple made in 2014 wasn’t a larger-sized iPhone. It was that Apple is entering the health-care industry. With HealthKit,…

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Real Estate Developer to Raise $20M to Build Digital Health Startups

Real Estate Developer to Raise $20M to Build Digital Health Startups

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, the largest owner and developer of real estate for the life-sciences industry in the nation wants to raise up to…

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News Highlights:Roche to Buy Trophos for Up-to-$543M – GEN

News Highlights:Roche to Buy Trophos for Up-to-$543M – GEN

Roche said today it will acquire Trophos for up to €470 million (about $543 million), in a deal that will expand the pharma giant’s…

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How did Steve Case’s ‘east of the Mississippi’ venture capital prediction pan out? The results are in. – Washington Business Journal

How did Steve Case’s ‘east of the Mississippi’ venture capital prediction pan out? The results are in. – Washington Business Journal

AOL founder Steve Case predicted last January that the region east of the Mississippi River would raise more venture capital than Silicon Valley in…

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Judy Britz is wrapping up five years of public service at the helm of the BioMaryland Center

Judy Britz is wrapping up five years of public service at the helm of the BioMaryland Center

Please join us in wishing her well as she embarks on retirement and new adventures. When: January 20, 2015 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.…

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Venture Capital – Year in Review 2014 – CB Insights

Venture Capital – Year in Review 2014 – CB Insights

Venture capital funding hit its highest annual mark since 2001 as venture investors participated in $47.3 billion across 3,617 deals. Even versus 2013, the…

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Venture capital marks ‘exciting year’ in 2014, with $341M in local deals in 4Q – Baltimore Business Journal

Venture capital marks ‘exciting year’ in 2014, with $341M in local deals in 4Q – Baltimore Business Journal

All that venture capital money so famously "sitting on the sideline" finally made it into company coffers in 2014. Mark McCaffrey, a partner at…

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Startup Maryland Supports Fosterly COLLABORATE — The Innovator’s Conference in Washington DC, January 23 an 24

Startup Maryland Supports Fosterly COLLABORATE — The Innovator’s Conference in Washington DC, January 23 an 24

All of us here at Startup Maryland are very excited to invite you to Collaborate, an innovation conference we're participating in January 23rd &…

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Breakfast Funding Seminar: Grants for R&D Collaboration with Israeli Companies – Maryland/Israel Development Center

Breakfast Funding Seminar: Grants for R&D Collaboration with Israeli Companies – Maryland/Israel Development Center

January 30th, 2015 8:00 AM-10:00 AM Learn from Eitan Yudilevich, Ph.D. Director of U.S. - Israel Binational R & D Foundation (BIRD) about grants available to…

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Medical school expected to open by 2017 at Roche’s Clifton-Nutley campus – Business – NorthJersey.com

Medical school expected to open by 2017 at Roche’s Clifton-Nutley campus – Business – NorthJersey.com

New Jersey's first private medical school in 50 years is planned for part of the 110-acre Hoffmann-La Roche property. Roche plans to vacate the…

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