BioHealth News Archive

Here are 10 of the fastest growing health IT companies, according to Inc.

Here are 10 of the fastest growing health IT companies, according to Inc.

The interest in using health IT tools as a way to improve healthcare delivery and efficiency has produced many rapidly growing healthcare companies, many…

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Montgomery County Executive Hispanic Gala Announces “Advocate of the Year” Awardee

Montgomery County Executive Hispanic Gala Announces “Advocate of the Year” Awardee

The 2014 Steering Committee of the Montgomery County Executive Hispanic Gala (MCEHG) announces the first of three awards to be presented during the gala…

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2014 Innovator of the Year winners announced! – Maryland Daily Record

2014 Innovator of the Year winners announced! – Maryland Daily Record

The Daily Record announced Thursday its 2014 Innovators of the Year, celebrating Marylanders and Maryland-based companies for their innovative spirit. Twenty-eight innovators will be…

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NHLBI Funding and Research Opportunities and Announcements for August 20, 2014

NHLBI Funding and Research Opportunities and Announcements for August 20, 2014

Funding and Research Opportunities The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of…

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How Open Innovation Centers Could Expand the Future of Biotechnology – #uberresearchprize – Digital Science

How Open Innovation Centers Could Expand the Future of Biotechnology – #uberresearchprize – Digital Science

In July, alongside the ÜberResearch team, we launched a Twitter competition open to PhD students. The task was to tweet how you would spend £10…

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A new TEDCO fund will make investments of up to $100,000 in cyber security firms – Baltimore Business Journal

A new TEDCO fund will make investments of up to $100,000 in cyber security firms – Baltimore Business Journal

The Maryland Technology Development Corp. is launching a new investment fund dedicated to cyber security. The fund will make investments of up to $100,000…

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JMI Equity closes on $1B fund, its largest ever – Baltimore Business Journal

JMI Equity closes on $1B fund, its largest ever – Baltimore Business Journal

JMI Equity closed a $1 billion growth equity fund targeted at investing in software companies and services companies, it announced Wednesday. The fund is…

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Sparking New Ideas – Tech Transfer at DOE  – T2 Speakers Series

Sparking New Ideas – Tech Transfer at DOE – T2 Speakers Series

DATE: September 10, 2014 - 3:30 - 5:00 PM LOCATION: Germantown Innovation Center, 20271 Goldenrod Lane, 2nd Floor, Germantown, MD 20874 As a federal…

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Job Opportunity: Director, Partnerships & Collaborations at MedImmune

Job Opportunity: Director, Partnerships & Collaborations at MedImmune

Location: MD, Gaithersburg - Corporate Headquarters This will be a highly visible position dedicated to ensuring MedImmune further builds its collaboration efforts with governments, universities…

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MorphoSys and Emergent BioSolutions Sign License Agreement to Co-Develop and Commercialize Prostate Cancer Drug Candidate ES414 – MarketWatch

MorphoSys and Emergent BioSolutions Sign License Agreement to Co-Develop and Commercialize Prostate Cancer Drug Candidate ES414 – MarketWatch

MorphoSys AG (MOR) MPSYY,  and Emergent BioSolutions Inc. EBS,  today announced an agreement for the joint development and commercialization of ES414. The compound, to…

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Where Skateboards Meet Biotech – Free-Times.com

Where Skateboards Meet Biotech – Free-Times.com

When you think of tech companies, incubators or startups, South Carolina is still probably one of the last places that comes to mind. But…

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The Medical Innovation Threat – WSJ

The Medical Innovation Threat – WSJ

An invasive species has been introduced into the U.S. health innovation ecosystem, with a growing danger of permanent damage to the development of specialty…

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NSF awards $10.8 million in early concept grants for brain research – US National Science Foundation (NSF)

NSF awards $10.8 million in early concept grants for brain research – US National Science Foundation (NSF)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 36 Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) to enable new technologies to better understand how complex…

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Johns Hopkins team wins NIH design competition with spinal surgery aid – Hub

Johns Hopkins team wins NIH design competition with spinal surgery aid – Hub

A team of Biomedical Engineering undergraduate students from Johns Hopkins recently won the 2014 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge for developing a…

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What are some of the leading life science incubators? – Entrepreneurship.org

What are some of the leading life science incubators? – Entrepreneurship.org

There are approximately 1,250 business incubators in the United States, including about 120 with some life science focus, according to the National Business Incubation…

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