BioHealth News Archive
Biomedical Engineering News – 2nd Annual JHU–UMD BMES Undergraduate Research Day
On Friday, March 28th, a contingent of Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering (JHU BME) undergraduate students and faculty visited the University of…
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Maryland embraces strategic innovation – baltimoresun.com
Now that the Maryland General Assembly has adjourned for the year, it is time to take a quick review of significant accomplishments. Amid the…
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University of Maryland Debuts Online Master’s Degree in Tech Entrepreneurship – EdTech Magazine
The University of Maryland, College Park, has announced a new master's degree program that will focus on technology entrepreneurship — and, appropriately, it will…
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Gov. Patrick’s Global EIR Program: Why STEAM Not STEM – BostInno
Governor Deval Patrick announced Thursday a plan to keep highly-skilled international students in Massachusetts post-graduation. Under his proposed Global Entrepreneur in Residence program, however,…
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Health IT venture capital report: Consumer-focused tech is capturing more early-stage deals
As early as February, analysts were saying that it would be a good year for healthcare IT companies looking for venture capital. Communications and…
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PatientsLikeMe Gives Genentech Full Access – MIT Technology Review
The most extensive collaboration between the patient social network and a drug company to-date is likely to be just the first of its kind.…
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Baltimore Tech Entrepreneurship on the Radio · Community News · myUMBC
If you have been around UMBC at all in the past few years and involved with the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship, you have…
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GlycoMimetics Announces Presentation of Data on Rivipansel (GMI-1070) in Combination with Current FDA-Approved Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease – WSJ.com
GlycoMimetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:GLYC) announced today that data for its lead clinical drug candidate, rivipansel (GMI-1070), was highlighted via one oral presentation and one poster…
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In D.C., incubators expand – Work It, Richmond
Fifty-four weeks after it opened, 1776 serves as a packed and noisy hub for Washington’s startup community. Evan Burfield and Donna Harris founded the…
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Qiagen Expands Personalized Healthcare Pipeline
In a bid to expand its pipeline of Personalized Healthcare assays, Qiagen NV (QGEN - Snapshot Report) acquired an exclusive worldwide license for the…
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What should be a healthcare startup’s prize for good work? [Hint: It’s not necessarily money]
If you were to ask most early-stage companies what they’d consider to be a decent prize from a group of investors for a well…
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New Report Reveals Growth Trajectories and Top Policy Factors Affecting Biopharmaceutical Innovation & Growth – MarketWatch
Today the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) released a report that outlines two potential growth trajectories for the U.S. biopharmaceutical sector and…
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QIAGEN Adds Promising New Biomarker to Pipeline of Personalized Healthcare Assays to Improve Diagnosis of Blood Disorders – MarketWatch
QIAGEN N.V. today announced it has acquired an exclusive worldwide license to the biomarker calreticulin (CALR), whose recently discovered mutations are found in an…
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GSK Partners With MD Anderson For Cancer Immunotherapies Development
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center announced its new collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline to advance development of cancer immunotherapies. The collaboration will focus…
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Why I’m excited about the promising future of medicine – Washington Post Blog
Health care is a misnomer for our medical system. It should be called sick care. Doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies only make money when…
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