BioHealth News Archive
GSK Kicks Off 2014 Discovery Fast Track Challenge
GSK is inviting academic scientists to enter their most innovative drug research proposals into its 2014 Discovery Fast Track Challenge– a program designed to…
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Where the brainpower is: Exclusive U.S. rankings, insights – Baltimore Business Journal
It pays to have a college diploma -- and preferably more than one. A worker who holds a bachelor's degree will typically earn 77…
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10 County biotech companies to receive $500,000 in County support
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett today announced that investors in 10 local biotech companies will receive $500,000 in return for investing more than $7…
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Digital health IPOs will leave enterprise tech in the dust in 2014
The U.S. experiences cycles in liquidity because, well, we just aren’t that creative. In 2006 to 2007 we saw waves of consumer tech IPOs,…
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UMB Health IT Start-up Advanced Metrics Caps Quick Entrance into Commercialization with Move to University of Maryland BioPark – Press Release – Digital Journal
The University of Maryland (UM) BioPark and UM Ventures announced today that Advanced Metrics, a successful early-stage UM, Baltimore (UMB) startup has moved from…
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Healthcare Providers Can Diagnose Group A Strep in Minutes with New Test – MarketWatch
BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it received 510(k) clearance and…
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Adventist HealthCare CEO William Robertson leaving to run MultiCare Health in Tacoma – The Washington Post
William G. “Bill” Robertson plans to leave his post as president and chief executive of Gaithersburg-based health system Adventist HealthCare in April to lead…
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Millennials and Healthcare: 3 Tips to Reach Young, Stubborn Patients
Twenty-somethings can be a tough crowd to please. They’re glued to their smartphones, opinionated, and entirely dependent on technology. When facing an illness, they’ll…
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NexImmune’s AIMä Immunotherapy Technology Enables Novel Adoptive Immunotherapy Approach for the Treatment of Cancer
NexImmune, an immunotherapy company developing products for the treatment of cancer, today announced a new scientific publication by NexImmune co-founder Dr. Jonathan Schneck and…
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NCI Awards Rockville-based 20/20 GeneSystems $750,000 Contract to Develop Companion Diagnostic – 20/20 GeneSystems
20/20 GeneSystems, Inc. (“20/20”) announced today that the National Cancer Institute has awarded the company a cost-sharing Phase II Small Business Innovation and Research…
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AnthroTronix Awards Subcontract to Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
AnthroTronix (www.atinc.com), an award-winning research and development (R&D) company that designs human-inspired products that define the future of mobile technology, recently awarded the Department…
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Workforce Development in Montgomery County-Let’s Talk – The Nonprofit Roundtable
Discovery Communications - Monday, March 31, 2014 Please join Montgomery County’s business, nonprofit, philanthropic, government, education and resident leaders in a discussion about building…
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Business Rx: VentureBoard seeks advice on scaling up – The Washington Post
Scott Block has always been interested in entrepreneurship. As an undergraduate , he looked for opportunities to get involved in start-ups at the University…
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UCSF, Samsung creating center for digital health care innovation
UCSF and electronics giant Samsung are establishing a center for digital health care innovation, they said Friday, an endeavor that seeks to accelerate the…
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How ‘personalized medicine’ could make the world healthier – Triangle Business Journal
Roger Jeffs hopes that someday all medicines will be classified as orphan drugs. Allow the president and COO of United Therapeutics (Nasdaq: UTHR) to…
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