BioHealth News Archive

Pieris Initiates Phase I Clinical Trial for Anticalin(R) to Treat Anemia – Yahoo Finance

Pieris Initiates Phase I Clinical Trial for Anticalin(R) to Treat Anemia – Yahoo Finance

Pieris AG announced today the initiation of a Phase I clinical trial with PRS-080, an anti-hepcidin Anticalin® therapeutic protein designed to treat anemia. The…

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Novartis and Roche leaders in R&D – European Biotechnology News

Novartis and Roche leaders in R&D – European Biotechnology News

When it comes to the biggest investors in Research and Development (R&D) Swiss pharma top dogs Novartis and Roche have defended their positioning among…

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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland – Steve Blank

The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland – Steve Blank

The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. Over 44…

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Aris Melissaratos mulls making his economic development forum an annual event – Baltimore Business Journal

Aris Melissaratos mulls making his economic development forum an annual event – Baltimore Business Journal

Aris Melissaratos is batting around the idea of making Stevenson University's Maryland Rising economic development forum an annual event. Can you blame him? The…

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TVs Shark Tank Inspires Innovation Within Hospitals

TVs Shark Tank Inspires Innovation Within Hospitals

Hospitals are on the hunt for new ideas to transform health care, and some are looking to reality television for inspiration. Several health care…

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NHLBI Funding & Research Opportunities and Announcements for December 8, 2014

NHLBI Funding & Research Opportunities and Announcements for December 8, 2014

Funding and Research Opportunities The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of…

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Fighting Ebola With A Robot And An App Called JEDI – Co.Labs

Fighting Ebola With A Robot And An App Called JEDI – Co.Labs

Sometime soon a slender robot that looks like Casper the ghost and works like Skype on wheels may visit the bedside of an Ebola…

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A 7-Step Guide To Finding The Right Strategic Investor For Your Start-Up

This source of strategic partnership offers a synergistic relationship that combines monetary and functional resources, capabilities, and core competencies for the purpose of technology…

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4 Tech Trends Changing How Cities Operate

Louis Brandeis famously characterized states as laboratories for democracy, but cities could be called labs for innovation or new practices. With far fewer resources…

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Biotech industry needs to be nurtured – The Sacramento Bee

Biotech industry needs to be nurtured – The Sacramento Bee

California has been associated with risk-taking, entrepreneurship and innovation since the Gold Rush. Today, California is still an innovation engine in such varied sectors…

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Northrop Grumman names new CFO – Washington Business Journal

Northrop Grumman names new CFO – Washington Business Journal

Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman Corp. has named Kenneth Bedingfield as its next chief financial officer. Bedingfield will succeed James Palmer, who retires next year.…

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Why So Many New Tech Companies Are Getting into Health Care

Why So Many New Tech Companies Are Getting into Health Care

A flood of new health care IT companies has been pouring into the U.S. health care market. The cause of this torrent: the recognition that…

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GSK No 1 again in global access to medicine index

GSK No 1 again in global access to medicine index

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has for the fourth consecutive time been ranked No 1 among global pharmaceutical companies assessed for their efforts to improve access to…

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How to turn a genetic disorder into a $100 million Internet star

How to turn a genetic disorder into a $100 million Internet star

How do you turn a genetic disorder into a money-making empire? Grumpy Cat has done it, but is it only acceptable because she is…

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HHS adds new class of ‘entrepreneurs-in-residence’ – The Washington Post

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services welcomed its third group of “entrepreneurs-in-residence” — mainly private-sector tech experts and start-up founders who…

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