BioHealth News Archive
$26M Longevity Fund ready to provide growth capital to companies focused on senior citizens
Two private equity firms announced the formation of a $26.6 million fund that will focus exclusively on the aging marketplace and companies within it.…
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UMBC in Top 10 on guide’s best college buys list – WBAL
Maryland has one of the Top 10 best-buy colleges and universities, according to the 2015 edition of Fisk's Guide to Colleges. The University of…
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Business incubator seeks board members – The Frederick News-Post
The Frederick Innovative Technology Center Inc. is looking for business leaders to volunteer for its board of directors. Preference will be given to those…
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At NIH, Biomedical Research Is Enough to Make You Break Into Song – Promising Practices – Management – GovExec.com
Happy 10th anniversary to the National Institutes of Health’s Common Fund! It’s hard to believe that it’s been a decade since I joined then-NIH Director…
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Maryland’s Healthcare Interactive raises $8 million in venture capital as it eyes national growth – Washington Business Journal
Healthcare Interactive Inc. — which sells Web-based software for companies to monitor medical costs in real time — has raised $8 million in funding.…
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IPO market for venture-backed companies remains strong, but M&A deals slow – GeekWire
It’s still a good time to go public. Twenty-eight venture-backed companies completed initial public offerings during the second quarter, raising $4.9 billion. That was…
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Kleiner Perkins, Domain lead VC pack emerging from biotech IPOs – San Francisco Business Times
A cadre of venture capital firms could cash in from the wave of Bay Area biotech initial public offerings in the first half of…
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Supernus to Receive $30 Million in Non-Dilutive Royalty Deal – WSJ.com
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUPN), today announced the execution of a royalty acquisition agreement ("Agreement") with HealthCare Royalty Partners ("HC Royalty"). Per the Agreement, HC…
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DC Venture Capital: Columbia Capital Plans $425 Million Fund – InTheCapital
Alexandria-based venture capital firm Columbia Capital is planning a $425 million fund according to SEC filings reported in the Washington Business Journal. The firm…
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NHLBI Funding and Research Opportunities and Announcements for July 8, 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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ORTHOMETRIX ACQUIRES EXCLUSIVE WORLDWIDE RIGHTS FROM ENCORE PATH TO MARKET THE TAILWIND™ ARM REHABILITATION DEVICE DEVELOPED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
ORTHOMETRIX, INC. announced today that it has signed an exclusive agreement with ENCORE PATH, INC. to market, sell and service worldwide the Tailwind™ arm…
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Type 2 insulin pump maker Valeritas raising large equity round
It looks like Valeritas, which is developing insulin pumps for Type 2 diabetes, is in the midst of raising another big round of cash. The New…
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A Diagnosis for Personalized Medicine
Personalized medicine (PMx), medical treatment tailored to specific patient populations based on their genetic or molecular biology profiles, has long been heralded as the…
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Scott Storrer to Join Strand Life Sciences as President of North America – Strand Life Sciences
Storrer will oversee strategy, expansion and operation of Strand Genomics Inc., the wholly owned subsidiary of Strand Life Sciences in North America. Strand is…
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emocha, a Mobile Health Platform for Remote Patient Monitoring (INTERVIEW)
Originating as a solution to educate health workers in developing countries, emocha is now a powerful platform that allows researchers and clinicians to use mobile data capture,…
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