BioHealth News Archive
The $1K Genome? So What? Illumina Is On a Quest for World Domination – Xconomy
People can argue all day about whether Illumina has, at last, given us the $1,000 genome. The answer does matter, because the cheaper it…
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GSK to launch late-stage clinical trials on 10 new drugs: paper – Yahoo Health
GlaxoSmithKline is set to unveil plans to launch late-stage clinical trials on 10 new drugs over the next two years, the Telegraph reported, without…
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GSK among backers for mobile prescription appMobile World Live
The venture arm of GlaxoSmithKline joined investors in ZappRx, a prescription app, in a second instance recently of big pharma putting cash into a…
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2014 NIH SBIR & STTR Omnibus Grant Solicitation for Small Businesses – BayBio Institute
The 2014 SBIR and STTR Omnibus Grant Solicitation of the NIH is now live and the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) budget for the program is…
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DreamIt Health grad with molecular diagnostic for smartphone raises $1M
Directing a child to set up a diagnostic test is one way to illustrate the ease of using a device. That’s the approach Biomeme…
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ZappRx Gets $1M From Atlas, SR One to E-Prescribe Specialty Meds | Xconomy
Getting specialty medications can be a big hassle. Dozens of pages of forms are required. Patients rely on call centers to find out the…
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Startup Success By the Numbers – Infographic
The statistics surrounding startup success are pretty daunting — in fact, of the 500,000+ businesses owners that launched companies in 2012, only a handful…
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Baltimore tech workers are making huge money compared to rest of the U.S. – Baltimore Business Journal
Baltimore is known for being home to companies such as Under Armour Inc. (NYSE:UA) and McCormick & Co. (NYSE:MKC) and, of course, HBO’s “The…
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Rock Spring Ventures is now Epidarex Capital
ROCK SPRING VENTURES,A LEADING EARLY-STAGE LIFE SCIENCE VENTURE CAPITAL FUND, IS NOW EPIDAREX CAPITAL Our new name is inspired by Epidaurus, the home of…
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J&J enlists Yale to oversee clinical trials data sharing – FierceBiotech
Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) is the latest Big Pharma company that has vowed to open its clinical trial data vaults to the public. Going…
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Emergent BioSolutions Announces Completion of $250 Million Convertible Senior Notes Offering – MarketWatch
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced today the closing of its previously announced offering of 2.875% Convertible Senior Notes due 2021 in a private placement to…
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The 7th Annual Maryland HIT Day – HIT in Action! Showcasing Consumer Engagement
Please join us for the 7th Annual Health Information Technology (HIT) Day of advocacy in Annapolis. Our agenda is focused on 'HIT in Action!…
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2014 FLC National Meeting – April 21-23, 2014
We are finally hosting the FLC’s National Meeting (Federal Laboratory Consortium) here in Montgomery County! This program gives our local companies easy access to…
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Cotton Rat RSV Model Launched By Noble Life Sciences Inc. In Partnership With IBT Bioservices
Noble Life Sciences (Gaithersburg, MD), in collaboration with IBT Bioservices (Gaithersburg, MD), announces a newly optimized cotton rat model for preclinical studies of RSV…
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5 ways Washington DC is very different than Silicon Valley – GIGAOM
I was in Washington D.C. today at the State of the Net conference, listening to conversations about internet governance, Bitcoin, broadband metrics and privacy.…
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