BioHealth News Archive

ETC Hosts Entrepreneurship and Innovation European Delegation

ETC Hosts Entrepreneurship and Innovation European Delegation

The ETC (Emerging Technology Centers: http://www.etcbaltimore.com) -- Baltimore City’s award-winning technology innovation center–welcomed last week a European Delegation of entrepreneurs, policy makers and Members…

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Medtronic-Covidien Merger Not Great News For Startups, VCs Say – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ

Medtronic-Covidien Merger Not Great News For Startups, VCs Say – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ

Medtronic Inc., an active acquirer and financial backer of new medical technologies, has moved its tax domicile overseas with the $42.9 billion acquisition of…

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Why Medical Devices and Technologies Fail? The Importance and Implications of Proper Design – SOPE Event

Why Medical Devices and Technologies Fail? The Importance and Implications of Proper Design – SOPE Event

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 6:00 PM - Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus, Rockville, MD Guest Speakers:   GAUTAM GULATI, MD, MBA, MPHDr. Gulati…

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US FDA approves Qiagen’s artus CMV RGQ Mdx kit for human cytomegalovirus

US FDA approves Qiagen’s artus CMV RGQ Mdx kit for human cytomegalovirus

Qiagen, a Netherlands based holdings company announced that its artus CMV RGQ MDx Kit for human cytomegalovirus (CMV) has been approved by the US…

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Call for Submissions: 2015 FLC Planner

Call for Submissions: 2015 FLC Planner

The FLC invites you to submit images of your lab’s work for its 2015 planner! Why keep all of that hard work to yourself?…

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Biotechnology Venture Capital Surge Could Help Aching Pipelines

Biotechnology Venture Capital Surge Could Help Aching Pipelines

Top pharmaceuticals face a dilemma in that many blockbuster drugs are losing patent protection and existing pipelines may not compensate for lost revenues. The…

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Debunking the Biotech Bubble Talk – BIOtechNow

Debunking the Biotech Bubble Talk – BIOtechNow

The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index (NBI) has been on a wild ride in 2014 with a 20 percent gain in the first two months, a…

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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH – Steve Blank

Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH – Steve Blank

Over the last two and a half years the National Science Foundation I-Corps has taught over 300 teams of scientists how to commercialize their technology and how to fail…

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Technology transfer brings “more than money” to university communities – Press Release – Digital Journal

Technology transfer brings “more than money” to university communities – Press Release – Digital Journal

Just how valuable is "technology transfer" for universities?   This question is addressed in "More than Money: The Exponential Impact of Academic Technology Transfer," an…

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NIH and NSF collaborate to accelerate biomedical research innovations into the marketplace

NIH and NSF collaborate to accelerate biomedical research innovations into the marketplace

A collaboration between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health will give NIH-funded researchers training to help them evaluate their…

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Finally! FDA proposes social media guidelines for pharma & medical device makers

Finally! FDA proposes social media guidelines for pharma & medical device makers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued proposed guidelines for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries for posting information on social media…

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New Neuroscience Tools Provide Fresh Hope for Improved Psychiatric Drugs MIT Technology Review

New Neuroscience Tools Provide Fresh Hope for Improved Psychiatric Drugs MIT Technology Review

At Novartis’s research lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a large incubator-like piece of equipment is helping give birth to a new era of psychiatric drug…

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Biotech Company Cellphire Tapped for $1 million in InvestMaryland Funding

Biotech Company Cellphire Tapped for $1 million in InvestMaryland Funding

Governor Martin O’Malley and The Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development announced today that Cellphire, a Rockville biotechnology company, has received a $1…

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WellDoc Improves Hypoglycemia Prediction Model for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes | Business Wire

WellDoc Improves Hypoglycemia Prediction Model for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes | Business Wire

Researchers at WellDoc® today presented updated results of its hypoglycemia prediction technology at this week’s 2014 American Diabetes Association 74th Scientific Sessions. In previous…

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MedImmune, pharma giants launch joint genomics-based lung cancer trial – Washington Business Journal

MedImmune, pharma giants launch joint genomics-based lung cancer trial – Washington Business Journal

MedImmune, its parent company AstraZeneca and a handful of other pharma companies and health groups announced a broad lung cancer trial on Monday, looking…

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