BioHealth News Archive
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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AstraZeneca’s Medimmune to collaborate on new oncology biologics lab with Cancer Research UK
Medimmune, the global biologics research and development arm of Anglo-Swedish drug major AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN), has entered into a collaboration to establish a joint…
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American University to unveil new start-up incubator, the latest in the District – The Washington Post
American University’s Kogod School of Business on Friday plans to show off its new on-campus start-up incubator, the latest in a string of co-working…
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Startups Seek Cancer Drugs and Wall Street Riches Using Quantum Machines – MIT Technology Review
Ever since D-Wave Systems unveiled what it called the world’s first quantum computer in 2007, the small Canadian company has attracted controversy. Computers capable…
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