BioHealth News Archive
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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)
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
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
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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Rock Health adds 8 more startups and 3 new partners, including Deloitte and Abbott
Digital health incubator Rock Health is investing in eight new startups and teaming up with three new corporate entities – Blue Shield of California, Deloitte…
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NVCA CEO Bobby Franklin: Why VC confidence in government is dropping – Silicon Valley Business Journal
The annual global confidence survey from the National Venture Capital Association produced an unusual apparent contradiction. Investors around the world think the U.S. is…
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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Contract Solicitation (PHS 2015-1) Now Available
Innovative technologies and methodologies fuel progress in biomedical and behavioral research and represent an increasingly important area of the economy. The Small Business Innovation…
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