BioHealth News Archive

Protenus: DreamIt Health grad raising $750K for health records’ cybersecurity » Technical.ly Baltimore

Protenus: DreamIt Health grad raising $750K for health records’ cybersecurity » Technical.ly Baltimore

Take a guess as to which industry suffered the most cybersecurity breaches in 2013. According to one health IT startup, that’s healthcare. Protenus pointed that out…

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QIAGEN Receives FDA Approval of therascreen® KRAS RGQ PCR Kit Paired with Second Colorectal Cancer Drug – MarketWatch

QIAGEN Receives FDA Approval of therascreen® KRAS RGQ PCR Kit Paired with Second Colorectal Cancer Drug – MarketWatch

QIAGEN N.V. (frankfurt prime standard:QIA) today announced that its therascreen® KRAS RGQ PCR Kit (therascreen KRAS test) has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration…

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DoD 2014.2 SBIR Solicitation Now Open

DoD 2014.2 SBIR Solicitation Now Open

The DoD SBIR 2014.2 solicitation is now available for the submission of proposals.Participating Department of Defense (DoD) agencies: Army Navy DARPA DLA DMEA Missile…

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DC Tech: How Montgomery County Lured a Cybersecurity Startup Away from Virginia [Video] – InTheCapital

DC Tech: How Montgomery County Lured a Cybersecurity Startup Away from Virginia [Video] – InTheCapital

Montgomery County, taking a page from the state's playbook, has lured cybersecurity startup Mobile System 7 across state lines from McLean, Va. to Bethesda,…

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These 10 biotech firms are hiring in Greater Baltimore – Baltimore Business Journal

These 10 biotech firms are hiring in Greater Baltimore – Baltimore Business Journal

Biotech is certainly a growing industry in Greater Baltimore, and here’s more proof. These 10 companies all said they are growing their staff in…

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Innovation Cities Global Index 2014 from 2thinknow : City Rankings List

Innovation Cities Global Index 2014 from 2thinknow : City Rankings List

City innovation economy classifications and rankings, 2014. World’s largest city classification and global ranking with 445 benchmark cities classified, and all cities analyst ranked…

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QIAGEN integrates content from BIOBASE, including widely adopted HGMD, with its leading offering for biological data interpretation

QIAGEN integrates content from BIOBASE, including widely adopted HGMD, with its leading offering for biological data interpretation

QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the expansion of its industry-leading portfolio of bioinformatics solutions with additional content from BIOBASE,…

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The Top 10 Most Common Fundraising Misconceptions – NEXT PHASE

The Top 10 Most Common Fundraising Misconceptions – NEXT PHASE

In almost every case, the scientist-entrepreneurs approaching LSN are falling victim to one or more fallacies that are propagated through the industry. LSN is…

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The Road to Commercialization: Do Life Science Incubators Deliver on Their Promise? – NEXT PHASE

The Road to Commercialization: Do Life Science Incubators Deliver on Their Promise? – NEXT PHASE

Providing shared space, services, equipment, and expertise to budget-conscious scientist-entrepreneurs who are looking to prove a hypothesis and launch a company is the mission…

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Pennsylvania Life Science Industry – A Quick Check on the Numbers – Fourth Economy

Pennsylvania Life Science Industry – A Quick Check on the Numbers – Fourth Economy

Two year’s ago this month the Fourth Economy team completed an assignment for the Pennsylvania Life Science Leadership Advisory Council. At a news event…

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Engineering innovations reshape global health

Engineering innovations reshape global health

Engineering is a field with the power to transform lives across the globe, often in the most underserved regions. Nowhere is this maxim more…

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Entrepreneurship Dead? 84% Of SMBs Would Do It Again – ValueWalk

Entrepreneurship Dead? 84% Of SMBs Would Do It Again – ValueWalk

American entrepreneurship is apparently on the decline, according to a recent article from FiveThirtyEight, but small business owners report consistently high levels of satisfaction…

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Supernus Receives $2 Million Milestone for United Therapeutics’ Launch of Orenitram(TM) – MarketWatch

Supernus Receives $2 Million Milestone for United Therapeutics’ Launch of Orenitram(TM) – MarketWatch

Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that United Therapeutics Corporation UTHR +0.58% has paid Supernus a $2 million milestone payment under United Therapeutics' license agreement…

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GlycoMimetics collects $15M from Pfizer collaboration – Washington Business Journal

GlycoMimetics collects $15M from Pfizer collaboration – Washington Business Journal

Also this week in Pfizer-related Maryland biotech news: Gaithersburg-based GlycoMimetics Inc. collected a $15 million payment from the pharma giant stemming from its license…

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InvestMaryland Challenge awards nearly $1M in grants, prizes – MDBIZNews

InvestMaryland Challenge awards nearly $1M in grants, prizes – MDBIZNews

The second annual InvestMaryland Challenge, an early-stage business competition of the Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development, came to an exciting close Monday evening at the National…

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