BioHealth News Archive
Technology Transfer Programs At the NIH Research Festival
Please plan to attend and also help spread the word about some exciting technology transfer programs planned for the NIH Research Festival next week:…
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Medical Investors Take a Whole-Body Approach – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ
Medical investors once spent a disproportionate amount of their money on diseases affecting the brain, heart and skeleton. Now market pressures and technological advances…
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Pharma Industry Sales To Hit 1 Trillion In 2014 Says CMR Report
A new upcoming report from Thomson Reuters unit CMR International declares that several positive trends are buoying the pharmaceutical industry to an all-time high…
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Will the Next Classroom Disruption Be in 3-D? Facebook’s Virtual-Reality Company Thinks So – Wired Campus – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Brendan Iribe dropped out of the University of Maryland here, but before he did he amassed 227 parking tickets. And he managed to meet…
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Innovation and Technology initiative awards technology companies – Southern Maryland News
The Southern Maryland Innovation and Technology (SMIT) initiative has awarded Smartronix and Coherent Technical Services, two locally headquartered technology firms, Pro Memberships to CoFounders…
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Harpoon Medical, Inc. Announces $3.75M Series A Financing – UM Ventures
Harpoon Medical, Inc., a medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of a minimally invasive, beating heart mitral valve repair technology, announced…
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Largest Gift in University of Maryland History Set to Transform Computer Science Education
Today, the University announces the receipt of its largest gift ever by a single donor. It will catapult our top-15 computer science program to…
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Baltimore tech needs an updated road map for success – Technical.ly Baltimore
When we go grocery shopping, most of us don’t buy a pallet of one product and survive on that for the rest of our lives. We…
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Understanding the Sunshine Act: Has the Pendulum Swung… Tickets, Rockville – Eventbrite
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT) Rockville, Maryland In February 2013, The Sunshine Act was included as the Transparency Reports…
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Oculus VR CEO gives $31M to University of Maryland
The CEO and co-founder of Oculus VR is giving the University of Maryland $31 million - the largest gift in university history - to…
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Three takeaways from Transform: Economics and tech, healthcare as a place and big data
Over the course of three days at the Mayo Clinic‘s annual Transform conference, featuring scores of healthcare’s top names, several themes stood out. Here’s…
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9 Things Successful People Won’t Do
My last post, How Successful People Stay Calm, really struck a nerve (it's already approaching 1.5 million reads here on LinkedIn). The trick is…
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BIW Innovation Celebration Tickets in Baltimore
Friday, Sept. 19, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Under Armour - 1020 Hull Street, Tide Point, Baltimore, MD 21230 Baltimore Innovation Week starts NEXT…
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BioFactura and Collaborators to Develop an Ebola Drug Under NIH Partnerships Grant
BioFactura is a collaborator on a grant awarded to the Geneva Foundation. Ebola drug development funding will be provided under a Partnerships for Biodefense…
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Pharma’s first-to-market advantage – McKinsey & Company
There has been a long-running debate in the pharmaceutical industry about the value of being first to market. Companies spend considerable resources seeking to…
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