BioHealth News Archive
Novartis, NEA join $188M gamble on China biotech fund – FierceBiotech
BVCF, a Shanghai-based life sciences investor, has closed its third fund with $188 million to back upstart biotechs on both sides of the Pacific…
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GlaxoSmithKline joins a Big Pharma immuno-oncology R&D alliance – FierceBiotech
Drug research is a small world, where the main players often intersect repeatedly as they take on new roles at different institutions. And MD…
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Historic release of data gives consumers unprecedented transparency on the medical services physicians provide and how much they are paid
Historic release of data gives consumers unprecedented transparency on the medical services physicians provide and how much they are paid Today, as part of…
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TCM: Tech Wins in Maryland’s Legislative Session
The Tech Council of Maryland (TCM), Maryland’s largest technology trade association for life science and technology, today praised state lawmakers for advancing key priorities for…
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New Assay for Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) Testing Incorporates Real-Time PCR Technology
BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, announced today the CE mark and launch of…
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University System of Maryland secures final legislative victories – The Diamondback
With a budget bill passed this weekend and the University System of Maryland successfully lobbying for limited cuts to its state funding, the final…
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Children’s Hospital’s first Innovators Showcase touts healthy invention – BetaBoston
A less-invasive brain diagnostic test, a surface so slippery bacteria can’t stick to it, and a low-cost mylar wrap to help warm babies’ heads…
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11 Awesome Startup Ideas Launched in Just 36 Hours at UMD – InTheCapital
A group of University of Maryland undergraduates put together a spectacular hackathon this weekend, attracting more than 750 college students from across the country…
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Why our medicine will soon be cooler than Star Trek’s – VentureBeat
Health technology is advancing so rapidly that within a decade the small handheld medical reader used by Dr. Leonard McCoy in Star Trek —…
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Git’er Done! Take the Brake Off Federal Tech Transfer – IPWatchdog.com
After seeing how the federal agencies intend to implement the recommendations from The White House Lab to Market Summit the difference between product and…
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Blood test could provide rapid, accurate method of detecting solid cancers – ScienceBlog.com
A blood sample could one day be enough to diagnose many types of solid cancers, or to monitor the amount of cancer in a…
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Alios BioPharma Raises $41 Million in Series B Financing – MarketWatch
Alios BioPharma, Inc., a biotechnology company developing proprietary therapeutics for respiratory viral diseases, today announced it has completed a $41 Million Series B financing.…
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Sanaria wins prestigious 2014 Vaccine Industry Excellence Award
Rockville-based malaria vaccine development company Sanaria Inc. won the 2014 Vaccine Industry Excellence (VIE) Award for the “Best Prophylactic Vaccine” presented last week during…
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NHLBI Funding and Research Opportunity Announcements, April 4, 2014
Funding and Research Opportunities The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of…
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GlycoMimetics Names Tim Pearson to Board of Directors and as Audit Committee Chair – Top News – InsuranceNewsNet.com
GlycoMimetics, Inc. announced the addition of Timothy Pearson to its Board of Directors. According to a release, Pearson most recently held the position of…
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