BioHealth News Archive

Will the Next Classroom Disruption Be in 3-D? Facebook’s Virtual-Reality Company Thinks So – Wired Campus – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education

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

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. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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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New graduate program aims to train for FDA approval – The Diamondback

New graduate program aims to train for FDA approval – The Diamondback

Say you invent a medical device. A pacemaker. An improved hip implant. A microchip for the brain. Maybe you can change the world, but…

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United Therapeutics Advances Phase I Trial Of PLX-PAD In PAH

United Therapeutics Advances Phase I Trial Of PLX-PAD In PAH

Pluristem Therapeutics, a company that develops placenta-based cell therapy products, announced that its licensing partner United Therapeutics is advancing the Phase I study of…

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HEALTH ACCELERATION CHALLENGE LAUNCH – Harvard

HEALTH ACCELERATION CHALLENGE LAUNCH – Harvard

Some of the greatest health care innovations have taken decades to reach widespread adoption, adding to the ever-increasing cost of health care. We are…

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