BioHealth News Archive
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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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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