BioHealth News Archive
New director named for Arundel tech incubator – baltimoresun.com
Anne Arundel County Executive Laura Neuman has appointed a Brooklyn Park woman to a job she used to hold herself: director of the county's…
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GSK Gets Accelerated FDA Approval for Melanoma Drug Combo
GlaxoSmithKline plc announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Mekinist (trametinib) for use in combination with Tafinlar (dabrafenib) for the…
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WellDoc Closes $20 Million in Strategic Financing – Business Wire
WellDoc®, developers of the first FDA cleared mobile prescription therapy, BlueStarTM, announced today that it received funding from its first institutional investors, Merck Global…
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Johnson & Johnson Innovation expands global incubator presence to Israel – Pharmaceutical Business Review
Johnson & Johnson Innovation has announced that it is expanding its global incubator presence through a novel collaboration with the Office of the Chief…
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MedImmune in £multi million deal to strike cancer
AstraZeneca today announced that Granta Park-based MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has entered into a cancer research collaboration and licensing agreement…
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Intrexon Corporation – Synthetic Biology through Better DNA – Investor Relations – Newsroom
Intrexon Corporation (NYSE: XON), a leader in synthetic biology, announced today that it has entered into a research and development collaboration with Johnson &…
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Neuralstem To Raise $19.65 Million In Registered Direct Offering
Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE MKT: CUR) announced today that it has entered into agreements with leading institutional investors for a registered direct placement (the "Offering")…
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One of biotech’s top R&D chiefs makes the leap to the VC crowd at NEA – FierceBiotech
Elliott Sigal has opened the next chapter of his career. The former R&D chief at Bristol-Myers Squibb ($BMY), who helped squire a number of…
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GSK gains accelerated FDA approval for combination use of Mekinist® (trametinib) and Tafinlar® (dabrafenib) – MarketWatch
GlaxoSmithKline plc [LSE/NYSE: GSK ] announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Mekinist® (trametinib) for use in combination with…
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Washington area tech companies to show off their gadgets at International CES – The Washington Post
The International CES expo in Las Vegas, which kicks off Tuesday, has long been the site of new technology announcements and gadget demonstrations. This…
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6 musts for healthcare execs for 2014 – Healthcare IT News
The healthcare industry will continue to command the spotlight in 2014, and healthcare executive search consultants from Witt/Kieffer have some advice for making 2014…
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U.S. R&D Resumes Growth in 2011 and 2012, Ahead of the Pace of the Gross Domestic Product – US National Science Foundation (NSF)
New survey data result in an upward revision of the previously published 2011 U.S. research and development performance total and imply a sizable further…
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NIH Application Success Rates Decline in 2013 – NIH Extramural Nexus
As we go into the last few weeks of the year, my office is busy working up the final numbers on application data for…
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A 15-minute train commute between Baltimore and D.C. is getting closer to reality – Baltimore Business Journal
A 15-minute commute from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., might be a possibility after all. The Greater Baltimore Committee in 2012 supported a plan to…
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Tech Council of Maryland Releases 2014 Legislative Priorities for Life Sciences and Technology
The Tech Council of Maryland (TCM), Maryland’s largest technology trade association, released its 2014 Policy Platform, which outlines the organization’s specific priorities in the…
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