BioHealth News Archive
Circulomics Awarded Phase I SBIR to Develop Nanobind DNA Extraction Technology
Circulomics Inc has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop its new Nanobind…
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Exclusive: Merck explores $15 billion-plus drug portfolio sale – Reuters
Merck & Co Inc (MRK.N) is considering selling a big portfolio of mature drugs that could fetch more than $15 billion, according to people…
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Should Patents and Commercialization Count More Toward Tenure? – Science Careers
With the decline of great industrial laboratories, such as Bell Labs—home of such major technological advances as the transistor and research that won seven…
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An mhealth platform uses augmented reality to help people confront fears, anxiety
A team of physicists, psychologists and developers have produced a mobile health platform to make virtual reality and augmented reality more accessible as a…
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The Angel Investor Market in 2013: A Return to Seed Investing – Center for Venture Research
The angel investor market in 2013 continued the upward trend started in 2010 in investment dollars and in the number of investments. Total investments…
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University BioParks Serve as Source of Innovation as Pharmaceutical R&D Model Shifts – MarketWatch
In the face of rising drug research and development costs and continued pressures against increasing prices for medicines and health care services, the biopharmaceutical…
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Astrazeneca’s Biologics Veteran Applying A Risk-Based Approach To Plan For Capacity
When I recently sat down with Andrew Skibo, regional VP of supply biologics, global engineering, and real estate at AstraZeneca (AZ), I was the…
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Columbia-based MedStar Health becomes final founding partner of 1776 incubator in Washington – Washington Business Journal
MedStar Health will become the final founding partner of the 1776 tech incubator in Washington, with clinicians and administrators with the Columbia-based health system having a "significant…
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Digital health investment tops $1.35 billion in first quarter
Last year investments in big data dominated health IT deals as 112 deals attracted $712 million in investments, according to a new report by…
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NIH Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (REACH) Awards
The NIH Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (REACH) program will support proof-of-concept centers (Hubs) that facilitate and accelerate the translation of biomedical innovations into…
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Daniels, Semmel submit testimony ahead of U.S. Senate committee hearing on federal research funding – Hub
A day before a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in which heads of the nation's major research agencies will jointly testify on the need…
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MedImmune Expands University System of Maryland Research Collaboration – MarketWatch
MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, and the University System of Maryland announced today that the initial research collaboration between…
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University of Maryland associate professor Brent Goldfarb on how startups can deal with failure
Poke around and you will find plenty of scary statistics about new businesses—so many that starting a company at all can seem like sheer…
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UMBC to begin designing $123M science building – Baltimore Business Journal
University of Maryland, Baltimore County is moving forward with a new $123 million science building. UMBC will begin designing the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building…
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Pfizer Proposes a Marriage With AstraZeneca, Easing Taxes in a Move to Britain – NYTimes.com – NYTimes.com
Pfizer, the maker of best-selling drugs like Lipitor and Viagra and a symbol of business prowess in the United States for more than a…
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