BioHealth News Archive
Governor O’Malley Announces KoolSpan, BrainScope Tapped for Follow-on Investments from InvestMaryland
The Maryland Venture Fund (MVF), the equity investment arm of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED), has made follow-on investments totaling…
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MdBioLab Open House (with ice cream!)
August 20th, 3-5 PM MdBio Foundation welcomes you to an open house on the mobile laboratory MdBioLab. Tour the lab, meet the team, or…
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Strand Life Sciences: Bringing Genetic Tests To The Average Customer – Forbes India Magazine
When four professors of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, decided to start Strand Life Sciences in 2000 to aid clinical research through…
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Awards for Pediatric Device Projects – Call for Proposals
The organizers of the 2nd Annual Symposium for Pediatric Surgical Innovation and Competition judges are seeking proposals from inventors in medical institutions, private practices,…
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GSK’s new web effort hopes to help patients better cope with COPD
GlaxoSmithKline, better known as GSK, has launched a new web effort aimed at providing both information and inspiration for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary…
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The Internet of healthcare things: How to manage all the “things”
The mobile revolution was one of the most transformative events in IT. It set IT in a tailspin trying to secure so many different…
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Genomics — the next set of big data in healthcare?
Much of the discussion on big data has focused on claims information from insurers and EHRS from providers, but a collaborative effort underway at…
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Valerie Fremont Joins DED to Head Life Sciences and Health IT Sectors
Montgomery County Department of Economic Development (DED) announces the addition of Valerie Fremont as Senior Business Development Specialist for the County’s life sciences and…
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American Heart Association Launches Chicago Open Innovation Challenge
Today, the American Heart Association has launched the Chicago Open Innovation Challenge, a crowdfunding competition to uncover new innovative digital health tools to prevent or…
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Bert Vogelstein’s Liquid Biopsy Blood Test for DNA Could Stop Cancer – MIT Technology Review
The answers Bert Vogelstein needed and feared were in the blood sample. Vogelstein is among the most highly cited scientists in the world. He was described, in…
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Fall 2014 Regional Cohort Application – DC I-Corps
DC I-Corps, a new, NSF-supported program designed to foster, grow and nurture an innovation ecosystem in the Mid-Atlantic Region, is now accepting applications for…
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Contract Connections: Defense Labs Tech Transfer Tickets, Linthicum Heights – Eventbrite
Are you a company in the fields of cloud computing, network security, interoperability, chemical and biological defense, infectious disease or vaccines? Then you'll want to attend…
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Cerner/Siemens and the future of EHRs – Healthcare IT News
As the dust settles from this past week's mammoth $1.3 billion merger, Siemens Health Services CEO John Glaser tells Healthcare IT News what led…
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BioBuzz Montgomery County – August 27th
Wrap up a great summer with one last BioBuzz networking event on August 27th from 5:00 - 7:30 p.m. at American Tap Room in…
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All eyes on Vermont as it blazes a single-payer trail
Dr. Marvin Malek has been yearning and advocating for a publicly financed, single-payer health care system for at least two decades. Now, as Vermont…
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