BioHealth News Archive
Frost & Sullivan: A Rise in IPOs Revive Investments for the Global Pharma and Biotech Industry – MarketWatch
The heightened private equity and venture capital (PEVC) deal activity in the global healthcare industry during the recession years, 2008-2010, witnessed a decline post-2010.…
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Entrepreneurs Better Off Taking Less Venture Capital, Study Shows
Although it seems raising as much venture capital as humanly possible is Silicon Valley’s mantra, there are reasons to be cautious when signing termsheets.…
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Maryland Incubator of the Year Award winners unveiled – Baltimore Business Journal
Several Baltimore startups are among the winners of this year’s Maryland Incubator Company of the Year awards. The winners were announced Tuesday evening at…
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Senate panel OKs NIH funding boost, increase to Pell Grant – Inside Higher Ed
A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday approved a budget bill that would increase funding for the National Institutes of Health by $605 million for…
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The big pharma gamble: GlycoMimetics’ Rachel King on signing with Pfizer – Washington Business Journal
When GlycoMimetics Inc. announced a license agreement with Pfizer three years ago, the decision seemed like a no-brainer. This deal, which surrounded the sickle…
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Seeking All Entrepreneurs!
September 2014 is bringing 5 NEW CLASSES to our schedule that will help you BE THE ENTREPRENEUR THAT YOU WANT TO BE! Aspiring Entrepreneurs:…
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Johns Hopkins Announces Winners of Francis S. Collins Scholar Award
Two early career physician-scientists, Peter de Blank and Matthew R. Steensma, have been named inaugural winners of the Francis S. Collins Scholars Program in…
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Personalized Medicine Meets Cancer Immunotherapy – MIT Technology Review
A highly personalized medical technique is allowing patients with advanced kidney cancer to live nearly three times as long as they normally do. In…
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Funding Deadlines & New SBIR Application Forms – Are you ready?
Upcoming Funding Opportunity Deadlines -NEW FORMS-C Required for SBIR/STTR applications The next NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)…
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The Rise of Innovation Districts: A New Geography of Innovation in America – Brookings Institution
As the United States slowly emerges from the Great Recession, led by our cities and metropolitan areas, a remarkable shift is occurring in the…
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Senseonics Raises $20 Million; Brings in New VP of Sales and Marketing – Senseonics
Senseonics, a privately held medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of the first fully implantable, long-term continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system,…
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The Myth of the Medical Diagnosis – The Experts – WSJ
PETER PRONOVOST: The biggest misperception is certainty. When you receive a diagnosis from a doctor, we don’t always know for 100% sure if it…
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Biomanufacturing Technology Summit – Friday, June 13, 2014
DATE: June 13, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. LOCATION: Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, in Rockville, MD Emerging Strategies for the…
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Why we need entrepreneurship + translational medicine – Entrepreneurship.org
In the translational medicine space -- where medical research is "translated" into health tools and solutions for patients -- the majority of engaged physicians…
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The Latest Buzz in Pain Medicine (INTERVIEW)
At Medgadget we speak with quite a few physicians-turned-entrepreneurs, and one of the most enthusiastic and impressive we’ve known is Dr. Amy Baxter. We first met…
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