BioHealth News Archive
Becton, Dickinson and Company Acquires Alverix, Inc.
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it has acquired Alverix, Inc., a privately-held diagnostic…
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Images capture 10 years of health IT – Healthcare IT News
From President George W. Bush's embrace of healthcare IT to the opening of HealthCare.gov, hard work, government incentives, political battles and more have made…
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Bwtech incubator may expand again, add accelerator – Baltimore Business Journal
The growing popularity of cyber security is leading the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s research and development park to look into expanding its CyberHive…
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Hopkins to get $90M gift for cancer research – Baltimore Business Journal
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center will receive $90 million in new funding as part of a $540 million gift from Ludwig…
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Minority students are the future of STEM
As leaders of Montgomery County life science companies, we have a stake in whether local students like science. If they do, they are more…
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Bioentrepreneurship Leader Joins UM Ventures Team
University of Maryland Ventures (UM Ventures) announced today that Dr. Martha J. Connolly has been named director of bioentrepreneurship, a new program supported by…
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Glaxo: the New Modern Face of Big Pharma? – The Epoch Times
With billions to be made on the back of ill health and notable scandals and cover-ups in its history, it’s fair to say that…
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Johns Hopkins University Among Six Centers Sharing $540 Million for Cancer Study – Bloomberg
Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University are among six institutions sharing a $540 million grant for cancer research from funds established by…
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2013 Seed Investing Snapshot: Seed Venture Capital Financing Hit Four-Year High
2013 has been another banner year in seed financing for U.S. tech startups. In aggregate, 2013 saw $893 million invested across 843 seed VC…
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Are Pharma Companies Too Big to Innovate? (JNJ)
Ask any investor what they think about Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ ) , and you'll probably hear that it's a diversified pharma company, a…
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Montgomery County Campus 2013 Year in Review – Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus Blog
The National Cancer Institute opened NCI Shady Grove next door to the Johns Hopkins Montgomery County Campus buildings. Employees started arriving in late December…
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Here are Maryland’s 5 biggest incubators and accelerators – Baltimore Business Journal
Happy New Year! This week’s Top of the List is from our first-ever List of “Largest incubators, accelerators and co-working spaces in Maryland,” ranked…
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CDC names top 5 health threats in 2014 – MedCity
The disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named the top five global health threats they expect to tackle in 2014:…
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Digital health’s top deal-doers: These funds invested in the most companies last year
By Rock Health’s count, 302 investment firms and “notable angels” put money into a digital health startup in 2013. Twenty-seven of them did it…
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5 lessons we learned about data science in 2013
Most people know what marketing executives do every day. They try to catch people’s attention through email, ads, tweets, and press releases. As for…
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