BioHealth News Archive
Illumina Launches the Illumina Accelerator Program, World’s First Genomics Incubator – MarketWatch
Illumina, Inc. today announced the launch of the Illumina Accelerator Program, the world’s first business accelerator focused solely on creating an innovation ecosystem for…
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Free DC I-Corps workshop for UMD teams kicking off March 24th
The DC regional Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program is now accepting university research teams from the DC, MD, and VA area for the 5-week Lean…
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Drug approvals show SMEs and academia are the source of most innovation – Science|Business
The pharmaceutical industry’s dependence on universities and small biotechs as the source of innovation is laid bare in an analysis of the origin of…
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InvestMaryland Challenge advances 41 companies – MDBIZNews
Out of 260 applicants, 41 start-ups have advanced in the second annual InvestMaryland Challenge, the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED) announced today. The early-stage business competition—with…
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MedImmune Launches Research Collaboration with UCSF
MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, announced it has entered into a three-year collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science…
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GlaxoSmithKline R&D chief touts the future of ‘electroceuticals’ – FierceBiotech
Looking beyond the small-molecule drugs and biologic treatments that have dominated therapeutic development over the past generation, GlaxoSmithKline's ($GSK) all-encompassing R&D department is trying…
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Bicoastal life science VC aims for $375 million third fund
It looks like Clarus Ventures is planning to reload with investment capital for life science companies. The Boston- and San Francisco-based venture firm revealed…
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Building Biotechnology in India – Drugs are not the answer – BiotechBlog
In a recent post at In the Pipeline, Derek Lowe answers a reader’s question about how best to promote drug discover in India. Given…
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MacroGenics to sell 2.5M shares in secondary offering – Washington Business Journal
Rockville-based MacroGenics Inc. plans to sell 2.5 million shares in a secondary offering, the bulk of which would go toward advancing the biotech's oncology…
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Maryland TEDCO Economic Impact Study Now Available
A recent third-party economic development impact study conducted by Battelle Technology Partnership Practice (TPP), the world's largest non-profit research and development organization, has found…
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Lockheed Martin Actively Seeks Partnerships through the SBIR Program
By Suzanne Raheb, Corporate Supplier Diversity Leader, Lockheed Martin Corporation Whether working as a subcontractor or a technology mentor, Lockheed Martin provides small businesses…
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Sucampo names Peter Greenleaf to chief executive post – The Washington Post
Bethesda-based Sucampo named former MedImmune president Peter Greenleaf to serve as the company’s chief executive starting next month, according to a news release. The…
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Open Innovation Challenge Helps Decide Next Big Thing in Heart Health: Associations Now
Through the Open Innovation Challenge, the American Heart Association hopes to get closer to its goal of improving Americans’ cardiovascular health by 20 percent…
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CDC’s Virtual Events Program Created by the Public Sector, for the Public Sector – Nextgov.com
Declines in budgets across the public health community were just one reason the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began looking at innovative approaches…
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NIH Implements Option for Applicants to Switch between the SBIR/STTR programs and the SBIR Direct to Phase II pilot of the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011
HHS is committed to implementing all the provisions of the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-81). NIH has set up a website to keep…
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