BioHealth News Archive
Digital Health Flexes Muscle at Vaunted Biotech Conference – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ
The Colonial Room of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco was filled beyond capacity Monday afternoon, and the offices of digital-health seed fund Rock…
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Roche says licenses EGFR pathway-related intellectual property to QIAGEN – Reuters
Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Wednesday it had entered into an agreement with QIAGEN that includes a provision of non-exclusive licenses to recently granted…
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First flexing human muscle grown in lab – ScienceBlog.com
In a laboratory first, Duke researchers have grown human skeletal muscle that contracts and responds just like native tissue to external stimuli such as…
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What will Mike Gill have to do to be successful at DBED? – Baltimore Business Journal
It didn't take R. Michael Gill very long to come up with some priorities after Gov.-elect Larry Hogan named him the next Maryland Department…
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Lockheed Martin’s getting personal with its latest health partnership – Washington Business Journal
Lockheed Martin Corp. is normally known for big things – tanks, planes, ships, those kinds of projects. But a new partnership the defense giant…
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AccelerateBaltimore 2015 Companies Announced
The ETC (Emerging Technology Centers) www.etcbaltimore.com, Baltimore City’s award-winning technology innovation centers, announced today that the following six companies have been accepted into the…
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DC Inno Beat 1/13: VC Fundraising- Where’s the Money, More Coworking- Too much? – DC Inno
Show me the money, I'm not seeing it here. According to NVCA, U.S. VC firms raised $29.8B in 2014, making it the best fundraising year since 2007…
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AstraZeneca plc: MedImmune enters licensing agreement with Omnis Pharmaceuticals for oncolytic viruses in immuno-oncology
AstraZeneca today announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has entered into a licensing agreement with Omnis Pharmaceuticals (Omnis), a privately-held…
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Angel investor tax credit could make Maryland more appealing to investors, entrepreneurs – Baltimore Business Journal
Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York — Maryland has a lot of competition for entrepreneurs' attention. Experts say a tax credit specifically for angel investors…
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Qiagen (QGEN) Launches Next-Gen TB Infection Test – Zacks.com
Sample and assay technologies provider Qiagen NV recently announced the launch of its latest diagnostic TB test– QuantiFERON-TB Gold-Plus (QFT-Plus), subsequent to the product’s…
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Alexandria Real Estate seeking to raise $20 million to back digital health in S.F. – The Technology Chronicles
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, the real estate firm that helped transform Mission Bay into a thriving life-science hub, now wants to raise up to…
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Human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter taps Baltimore startup for next project – Baltimore Business Journal
J. Craig Venter was one of the first scientists in 2001 to map the human genome. Now this trailblazer in genome sequencing research has…
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BD Intelliport IV Medication Management System Cleared by FDA (VIDEO)
BD Medical, a part of Becton, Dickinson and Company, announced receiving FDA clearance for its Intelliport Medication Management System. The product monitors manual IV bolus…
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Qualcomm and Novartis Part 2: Let’s start an investment company
The Beyond the Pill movement took an interesting turn this week when Qualcomm announced plans to open an investment business with Novartis, according to…
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AstraZeneca – MedImmune enters licensing agreement with Omnis Pharmaceuticals for oncolytic viruses in immuno-oncology
AstraZeneca today announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has entered into a licensing agreement with Omnis Pharmaceuticals (Omnis), a privately-held…
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