BioHealth News Archive
Pediatric innovation: DreamIt Ventures collaborates with Children’s Hospital
It’s a bit surreal to go to a science fair at a hospital. But the group of health IT companies from DreamIt Venture’s accelerator…
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Universities Hold the Key for DC-Area Entrepreneurship – Paul Mandell
An entrepreneurial culture is alive and well in the nation's capital, bolstered by a wave of successful startups of various shapes and sizes that…
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San Diego Company to Launch World’s First Genomics Incubator
Illumina Inc. is launching what it bills as the world’s first genomics incubator, saying it has teamed up with technology billionaire Yuri Milner and…
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Biotech’s top venture capitalists aren’t waiting for startups to come to them
These top venture capitalists don’t wait for biotech startups to come to them. They create companies themselves. The path to greatness in biotechnology runs…
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A digital device in pivotal trials listens for the sound of a potential heart attack in the making
For Marie Johnson, coming up with a better way to detect coronary artery disease is both a business and a personal mission. Johnson is…
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Here’s what a cybersecurity ‘center of excellence’ actually does – Washington Business Journal
Just what is a "National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence," anyway? I've heard this question muttered repeatedly, in one form or another, in the course…
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Cangene Receives Court Approval of Plan of Arrangement for Acquisition by Emergent BioSolutions – WSJ.com
Cangene Corporation ("Cangene") (TSX: CNJ) today announced that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued a final order approving the Plan of Arrangement for…
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National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence set to expand in Rockville – Baltimore Business Journal
Federal and Maryland officials signed an agreement on Tuesday with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg to develop new cyber security…
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Epidarex Capital invests in cancer drug developer Confluence Life Sciences Inc
Epidarex Capital, a leading international early-stage life science venture capital fund, has invested in Confluence Life Sciences Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the…
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University Of Maryland, Baltimore Licenses Cardiac Valve Repair Technology To Harpoon Medical
University of Maryland (UM) Ventures and Harpoon Medical, Inc. announced today that Harpoon Medical has obtained exclusive rights to a portfolio of technologies for…
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What a Snow Day Can Teach You About Your Organization – Promising Practices – Management – GovExec.com
Here in Washington, we woke up to a thick blanket of snow from the largest snowstorm of an already active winter season. The federal…
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Tech Council of Maryland Names New Board Members – Business Wire
The Tech Council of Maryland (TCM), Maryland’s largest technology trade association with more than 400 life science and technology members employing over 200,000 in…
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IBM Watson Gets App Partner: Meet Welltok – InformationWeek
One of IBM's first app ecosystem partners for Watson, the health optimization company Welltok Inc., became the first firm to benefit from a $100…
Read MoreBiotech, Meet Crowdfunding – The Scientist Magazine®
In 2008, Thierry Merquiol joined a crowdfunding effort to produce the first album of a little-known French singer named Grégoire. The investment paid off,…
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QIAGEN Announces Launches for Innovative Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Products to Generate Valuable Insights from any Sample – MarketWatch
QIAGEN N.V. QGEN +0.76% (frankfurt prime standard:QIA) today announced the launch plans of several novel products designed to significantly reduce the challenges of the…
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