BioHealth News Archive
VC Asks Congress for New Medicare Policy to Help Medical Tech Startups – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ
America is still the world leader in creating new medical technologies that have the potential to save lives. So why is it so tough…
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6 reasons why the market for biosensor wearables is changing
A new report from Rock Health looking at the future of the biosensor wearables market shows a market in transition. The next generation of…
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CytImmune receives $100,000 from County to help advance tumor targeted nanomedicines
Rockville-based CytImmune received $100,000 from Montgomery County's equity investment program to help the company advance its industry-leading work in the development of tumor targeted…
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EntreMed drops the name EntreMed – Washington Business Journal
EntreMed (Nasdaq: EMND) has been through plenty of turbulence. In 1998, it was the subject of a breathless front page New York Times story…
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kloudtrack, Cisco And University Of Maryland Launch Innovation Sandbox™ For Healthcare, Medical And Life Sciences – NASDAQ.com
kloudtrack®, a leader in cybersecurity and cloud computing (cyber|cloud) technologies and solution services for sensitive data, process management and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC),…
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Is Your Television The Future of Healthcare Innovation?
After all the angst generated by the Affordable Care Act, and all the punditry, noise, and debate that accompanied its rollout, you might conclude…
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EY Entrepreneur of the Year award winners unveiled for Maryland – Baltimore Business Journal
EY unveiled on Thursday evening its 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year Maryland winners in eight categories. The honorees were announced in front of a…
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Maryland named No. 1 in Innovation and Entrepreneurship – MDBIZNews
Maryland has retained top rankings in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s annual Enterprising States study released Wednesday. For the third consecutive year, the State ranked No. 1 in…
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Tech firms are choosing Maryland, but Virginia is still getting all the data centers – Baltimore Business Journal
Maryland is missing out on as many as 7,000 jobs and millions of dollars of investment as companies build data centers in neighboring Virginia,…
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Index Ventures raises $542M seed-stage venture capital fund
London-based Index Ventures has just announced a new $542 million fund for seed-stage companies that have raised under $20 million. The firm says it will invest…
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Where will the dominant digital health platform come from?
I read an interesting Wall Street Journal article recently that discussed the war between tech companies to control future consumer distribution platforms. The article explains…
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Novavax sells $115 million in stock to pay for vaccine trials – Washington Business Journal
Novavax Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) said Wednesday it has raised $115 million in gross proceeds by selling 28.75 million shares of its common stock, which…
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UMD, GW, and VT add Johns Hopkins to NSF’s DC I-Corps Node and NSF’s National Innovation Network – Press Release – Digital Journal
The University of Maryland, along with the George Washington University and Virginia Tech, have added the Johns Hopkins University to the National Science Foundation's…
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Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in the U.S. Life Sciences Sector – Brookings Institution
This brief analyzes entrepreneurship and job creation in the U.S. life sciences sector—defined as the group of industries engaged in the application of biological…
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New Janssen Labs Incubator Could Bring Up to 50 Companies to South SF – Xconomy
Tiny biotech startups will have a new place to germinate in the San Francisco Bay Area. Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Labs division…
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