BioHealth News Archive

UCF incubator’s impact: $2.5B on regional economy – Orlando Business Journal

UCF incubator’s impact: $2.5B on regional economy – Orlando Business Journal

The University of Central Florida’s Business Incubation Program has pumped nearly $2.5 billion into the economy over the last 15 years. The program —…

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NIH Funds Neurotechnology as Part of Obama’s BRAIN Initiative – MIT Technology Review

NIH Funds Neurotechnology as Part of Obama’s BRAIN Initiative – MIT Technology Review

The White House said that President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative is generating interest from companies and philanthropies in a sign of what it calls a…

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Baxter to Form New Global Innovation and R&D Center near Boston for Its Biopharmaceuticals Business – Business Wire

Baxter to Form New Global Innovation and R&D Center near Boston for Its Biopharmaceuticals Business – Business Wire

Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) today announced plans to form a new global innovation and research and development (R&D) center in Cambridge, Mass., for Baxter's…

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The Daily Startup: Small VC Funds Gaining Support of Limited Partners – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ

The Daily Startup: Small VC Funds Gaining Support of Limited Partners – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ

Limited partners are actively returning to venture capital and many are looking beyond the industry’s giants. “I think this is the first year that LPs…

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Digital Health Venture Capital: 4 Areas VCs Are Betting On

Digital Health Venture Capital: 4 Areas VCs Are Betting On

The year 2014 has not just started out on a good note for the digital health and health IT market, but it seems to…

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Drug Patents Held Overseas Can Pare Makers’ Tax Bills – NYTimes.com

Drug Patents Held Overseas Can Pare Makers’ Tax Bills – NYTimes.com

As the Obama administration tries to stop companies from avoiding taxes by moving their headquarters overseas, the makers of some of the world’s most…

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EmTech: Illumina Says 228,000 Human Genomes Will Be Sequenced in 2014 | MIT Technology Review

EmTech: Illumina Says 228,000 Human Genomes Will Be Sequenced in 2014 | MIT Technology Review

Henry Ford kept lowering the price of cars, and more people kept buying them. The San Diego–based gene sequencing company Illumina has been doing…

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Cancer Foundation Names Finalists For Innovation In Patient-Centered Care

Cancer Foundation Names Finalists For Innovation In Patient-Centered Care

For more than ten years, the LIVESTRONG Foundation’s iconic yellow wristband has symbolized the struggle against cancer.  While many charities and foundations are focused…

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Cardin, Mikulski Announce Nearly $15 Million to Strengthen Cyber Job Training at Maryland Community Colleges

Cardin, Mikulski Announce Nearly $15 Million to Strengthen Cyber Job Training at Maryland Community Colleges

U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski (both D-Md.) today announced that the Department of Labor (DOL) has awarded $14,957,899 in federal funding…

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Start-Up Maryland – Pitch Across Maryland Wants YOU

Start-Up Maryland – Pitch Across Maryland Wants YOU

The 'Pitch Across Maryland' Bus rolls into Montgomery County on Wednesday, October 1. Bring your energy, ideas and a stack of business cards for…

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DC I-Corps Regional Cohort Showcase: Fall 2014- Eventbrite

DC I-Corps Regional Cohort Showcase: Fall 2014- Eventbrite

Thursday October 9, 2014 9:00 AM – 3:15 PM The DC I-Corps Fall 2014 Regional Cohort officially kicks off on October 9th at the Microsoft building…

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NIH Prodding Makes Data Sharing More Common, Survey Finds – The Chronicle of Higher Education

NIH Prodding Makes Data Sharing More Common, Survey Finds – The Chronicle of Higher Education

The paper, based on a study conducted by researchers at Drexel, Brandeis, and Harvard Universities, represents an attempt to measure the effectiveness of policies instituted…

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Texas Medical Center’s life sciences accelerator aims to change everything

Texas Medical Center’s life sciences accelerator aims to change everything

The Texas Medical Center has more square footage, more doctors and more hospitals than any other medical center in the country. However, that has…

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Roche Breast Cancer Drug Perjeta Appears to Greatly Extend Patients’ Lives – NYTimes.com

Roche Breast Cancer Drug Perjeta Appears to Greatly Extend Patients’ Lives – NYTimes.com

A drug used to treat advanced breast cancer has had what appears to be unprecedented success in prolonging lives in a clinical trial, researchers…

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Maryland University Opens $71 Million Technology Building

Maryland University Opens $71 Million Technology Building

Officials from local and state government as well as business and education attended a virtual ribbon cutting on Wednesday to celebrate the opening of…

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