BioHealth News Archive
The First Trillion-Dollar Startup – TechCrunch
In 1957, eight entrepreneurs decided to do something that seemed crazy. They launched a new tech company called Fairchild Semiconductor in a small town…
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Montgomery County unveils initiative to put 40,000 laptops and tablets in schools – The Washington Post
Montgomery County plans to launch a major technology initiative in its public schools in August, providing 40,000 laptops and tablets to students as part…
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12 Industry-Venture Fund Alliances: 2014 Edition – GEN
It helps to have a friend. And for several pharma giants scrambling to cut R&D costs, those friends are venture capital firms that co-invest…
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New Lab Keeps Md. On Cutting Edge Of Health & Technology – CBS Baltimore
Infectious diseases, pathogens and bioterrorism agents are all inside a new building downtown. Jessica Kartalija explains it’s great news for researchers at Johns Hopkins.…
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Founders Fund will give dough to early-stage science startups – VentureBeat
Founders Fund already stands out for backing startups with radical ideas, including Counsyl, Hampton Creek, Planet Labs, and SpaceX. Now the venture firm is…
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Almost half of Kaiser Permanente members book appointments, request refills and send messages online – VentureBeat
Kaiser is well known healthcare delivery model and outcomes, but, it turns out, it’s also among the best at engaging members via the web…
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Accenture report: Private insurance exchanges experiencing ‘hyper growth’ – MedCity News
While considerable attention has been heaped on the public health insurance exchanges over the year, private health insurance exchanges “are experiencing hyper-growth” and enrollment…
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Qiagen Adds Cancer Biomarkers to Personalized Healthcare Pipeline – GEN
Qiagen has acquired an exclusive global license from the University of Tokyo for the biomarker SF3B1. The company said it sees potential for developing…
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These 3 Local Universities Were Granted the Most U.S. Patents Worldwide in 2013 – InTheCapital
The Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) recently published a list of the top 100 universities worldwide granted U.S. patents in 2013, and among them were…
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Lupin, Other U.S. Firms Consider Bid For GSK Generics – Pharmaceutical Online
Inside sources reveal that Indian pharmaceutical generics firm Lupin, along with other U.S. pharma firms, is considering bidding for GlaxoSmithKline’s auctioned mature and generic…
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Find A Co-Founder, Fund Your Startup – All at Onevest – Small Business Trends
The startup world will perk up to hear that RockthePost and CoFoundersLab recently merged to form Onevest. Together the two companies will provide a…
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Here’s how the Maryland Innovation Initiative is supposed to work – Baltimore Business Journal
Jennifer Hammaker has watched biotech company respEQ Inc. grow from an experiment in a Johns Hopkins lab to a fledgling startup now looking for…
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Apollo Hospitals, Strand Life partner for genomic tests – Business Standard News
Apollo Hospitals today announced a partnership with Strand Life Sciences to launch the latter’s genomic tests across its hospitals. The partnership in gene-based diagnostics…
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GSK files world’s first malaria vaccine
GSK has submitted an application for the world’s first malaria vaccine to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The vaccine candidate, RTS,S, is produced in…
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Can Mobile Technologies and Big Data Improve Health? – MIT Technology Review
After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age. Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing, and advances in analytic software now make…
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