BioHealth News Archive
Partnership Seeks to Spread Successful STEM Program
Can the nationally acclaimed Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which has an unparalleled record of advancing diversity in the sciences, be adapted successfully at more universities?…
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Epidarex Capital Successfully Raises Fund to Make Significant Investments in Early-stage UK Life Sciences
Epidarex Capital, a leading international venture capital firm, has raised over £47.5 million to lead investments in early-stage life science and health technology companies,…
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Sen. Barbara Mikulski says new Maryland cyber security roundtable aims to grow workforce – Baltimore Business Journal
U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski says a new state roundtable on cyber security will focus on keeping the fast-growing industry’s jobs in Maryland, rather than…
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Reforming U.S. Regulation to Achieve Better Science – Ideas Lab
A bipartisan initiative known as “21st Century Cures,” spearheaded by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is aiming to keep the U.S. at the…
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Decentralising drug research: Pharmed out – The Economist
IAN READ, the chief executive of Pfizer, is not a man easily rebuffed. His attempt to woo AstraZeneca, a British drugs firm, included politesse—appearances…
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Imperial Innovations and SR One lead £850,000 seed financing for Puridify – Imperial Innovations
Imperial Innovations Group plc (AIM:IVO, ‘Innovations’), the leading technology commercialisation and investment company and S.R.One Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline’s venture captial fund, announce today that they…
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MedImmune advancing cancer research – Cambridge News
Immunotherapy, a new, promising therapeutic approach that leverages the power of the immune system to fight cancer, is the cornerstone of MedImmune’s oncology portfolio.…
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Bioscience firms integral part of Frederick County’s economy – The Frederick News-Post
The changing face of Frederick County’s economy is reflected in the rapidly growing field of bioscience and biotechnology companies locating or expanding here. Agriculture…
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Why Pfizer Abandoned the AstraZeneca Takeover (Video) – The Business Journals
Bloomberg’s Drew Armstrong reports on the failed Pfizer and AstraZeneca merger on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg Surveillance.” {iframe}http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/video/ZpZ2MybjpT1VXJtZ9XGr_FAEvRAKPh9B?autoplay=1&ana=e_wash_rdup&s=newsletter&ed=2014-05-28&u=wjGEy67ABoSnsLErlc5ry0j5hx3&t=1401287382{/iframe}
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Epidarex unveils £50m venture capital fund for UK life sciences – Telegraph
Investors keen to capitalise on British science have poured nearly £50m into a new venture capital fund. Epidarex, a specialist life science venture capital…
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Meet NHLBI at the 2014 National SBIR/STTR Conference Sign Up for 1-on-1 Meetings Today
Register for the Spring National SBIR/STTR Conference and take your pick of 1-on-1 meetings with Agency principals on a first-come, first-serve basis. More than…
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BIO Statement on Removal of Patent Legislation from Judiciary Committee Agenda | BIO
The Biotechnology Industry Organization today issued the following statement in response to Senator Patrick Leahy’s announcement that he will remove current patent legislation from…
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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally) – Sachin H. Jain, and Thomas Tsang – Harvard Business Review
All of us know that you have to be a little crazy to be an entrepreneur. Launching, let alone sustaining, a new enterprise can…
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Do Genes Affect Our Attitudes Toward Interdependence? – Andrew O’Connell – Harvard Business Review
Numerous studies have shown that Americans of European origin have a more independent, and Asians have a more interdependent, social orientation, as measured by…
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Perspective: Why Should We Crowdfund Research? – Crowdfund Insider
Its no secret: the University of Colorado receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds that sponsor our research. My lab alone racks…
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