BioHealth News Archive
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
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
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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Mikulski Meets with Governor-Elect Larry Hogan to Discuss Working Together to Support Jobs and Opportunity for Marylanders
U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) today met with Governor-Elect Larry Hogan at Harry Brown’s Restaurant in Annapolis. Senator Mikulski and Governor-Elect Hogan discussed…
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Novartis to sell OTC business to GSK Consumer for $17.6m – Pharmaceutical Business Review
Novartis India has agreed to transfer its over-the-counter division (OTC Division) to GlaxoSmithKline Consumer (GSK CPL), a consumer healthcare joint venture (JV) between Swiss…
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Bazillions of VC dollars flowing in health IT
The cash just keeps flowing in health IT, as does M&A activity. According to Mercom Capital Group, venture capital in the health IT space…
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#JPM15 Day 3 Buzz: We’ve captured the mood at JP Morgan – and that mood is oh so good
FierceBiotech on Wednesday delivered the first big verdict on the “mood” of the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference – based largely on its executive breakfast…
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Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Receives $4 Million to Develop a Retinal Prosthesis
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, has received $4 million in funding from the Mann Fund to develop a…
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How a man used 3D printing to help treat his wife’s brain tumor – Mashable
In the summer of 2013, Pamela Shavaun Scott started having "24/7 severe headaches" — so severe that she couldn't sleep. It wasn't before December…
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Move over MIT: Harvard spotlighting, and stepping up, its role in biomedical research – Business – The Boston Globe
Harvard University has long played an outsized role in spurring the growth of the Boston area’s life sciences industry, but the school’s contributions have…
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GSK, Penn, Wistar say they’ve found cancer’s ‘Achilles heel’ – Philadelphia Business Journal
A trio of scientists have started working with researchers at GlaxoSmitKline on a potential cure for cancer. In fact, they believe they've found the…
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NCET2: Global 1000 Transaction Network Company Showcase
A Exciting Opportunity for Investor Meetings and Showcases SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 21, 2015 We invite you to submit your high-growth and innovative companies…
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Funding for medical research in the U.S. is going down, contrary to global interest – what gives?
The United States shouldn’t worry just yet about losing the number one spot as far as disease-related research in the world goes – that’s…
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Could fasting for 16 hours twice a week be good for your health (and not just your waistline)?
‘Tis the season for dieting and purchasing gym memberships you may or may not use. There are plenty of tactics out there for how…
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The 8 categories of crowdsourcing in healthcare
In 2012, we authored a report titled The Evolving Business Case for Social Media in Healthcare – a publication covering the range of social…
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