BioHealth News Archive
Rapid growth in biopharma: Challenges and opportunities – McKinsey & Company
Biopharmaceuticals are among the most sophisticated and elegant achievements of modern science. The huge, complex structures of these drugs don’t just look extraordinary in…
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Maryland SBIR Conference 2015
Learn How to Get Seed Funding Investment for Your Business from the Government! Featuring SBIR program managers from leading Federal agencies invited including DOD,…
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Roche Enters Noninvasive Prenatal Test Market With Ariosa Purchase – Xconomy
Eyeing the biotech IPO boom earlier this year, Ariosa Diagnostics planned to go public as it battled larger competitors in the prenatal testing field.…
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s To Do List (circa 1490) Is Much Cooler Than Yours – Open Culture
Most people’s to-do lists are, almost by definition, pretty dull, filled with those quotidian little tasks that tend to slip out of our minds.…
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Science Journal Nature Will Make Its Archives Free to View Online (Kind of), Dating Back to 1869 – Open Culture
A quick note: Nature announced yesterday that it will make all of its articles free to view, read, and annotate online. That applies to the historic science…
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Scientists turn to crowdfunding sites for research money – Michigan Radio
Federal spending on scientific research hasn’t kept up with inflation in recent years, and it’s made it harder for researchers to fund their work.…
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Inaugural Remarks by County Executive Isiah Leggett
"Today, on this stage in the auditorium of Richard Montgomery High School - a magnet school that symbolizes the quality education that is Montgomery…
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Around and Around We Go: The Drug Development Debate – IPWatchdog.com – Patents & Patent Law
Every once and a while we get a clear example of the gulf between those battling over important public policy issues and can understand…
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Washington Business Journal Feature: Leslie Ford Weber – News – Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus
The Washington Business Journal interviewed Leslie Ford Weber, JHU's director of the Montgomery County Campus and of government and community affairs for Montgomery County.…
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GSK announces 14 winners of Discovery Fast Track Challenge
That next blockbuster drug? It all begins with a hypothesis: GlaxoSmithKline just announced the winners of its second Discovery Fast Track Challenge – a…
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Wow of the week: Free hip and knee replacements for those in need
David Chalker, 50, has excruciating pain in his hip. He’s an Army veteran and because of the pain, he had to leave his job…
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Insight & Intelligence™:30 Top VC Firms for Biotechs – GEN
The stampede is back on among venture capital firms to raise new money and close more funds, after years of standing pat following the…
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SBIR and the Phase III Challenge of Commercialization
Small businesses are a major driver of high-technology innovation and economic growth in the United States, generating significant employment, new markets, and high-growth industries.1…
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NIAID/GSK experimental Ebola vaccine appears safe, prompts immune response
An experimental vaccine to prevent Ebola virus disease was well-tolerated and produced immune system responses in all 20 healthy adults who received it in…
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Building viruses that kill cancer cells: BeneVir gets $2M, waiting on $10M more
Immunotherapy is at the forefront of cancer care; however, most cancers evolve the ability to dodge the body’s defenses. Maryland startup BeneVir is developing…
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