BioHealth News Archive

Maryland chancellor shares ideas to enhance effectiveness of America’s research universities

Maryland chancellor shares ideas to enhance effectiveness of America’s research universities

For research universities to produce the ideas and talent the United States needs in order to lead in the 21st century, they “must make…

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Maryland Mobile Lab Brings Science to Students

Maryland Mobile Lab Brings Science to Students

Instead of looking at pictures in textbooks or working with simulations on computers, high school students across Maryland have a chance to experiment with…

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AccelerateBaltimore Application Deadline Extended – Apply by December 31,2013

AccelerateBaltimore Application Deadline Extended – Apply by December 31,2013

What is your New Year resolution? Get your idea to the market with funding and resources? We can help you! AccelerateBaltimore™ is an initiative…

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The American Way of Hiring Is Making Long-Term Unemployment Worse – Gretchen Gavett – Harvard Business Review

The American Way of Hiring Is Making Long-Term Unemployment Worse – Gretchen Gavett – Harvard Business Review

There are currently more than 4 million Americans who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. This figure doesn’t include those who work…

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How to Reinvent Yourself After 50 – Dorie Clark – Harvard Business Review

How to Reinvent Yourself After 50 – Dorie Clark – Harvard Business Review

I was manning a booth at the Harvard Club of New York’s authors’ night when an older woman approached and picked up a copy…

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GSK to spend $1 billion to raise stake in Indian unit | Reuters

GSK to spend $1 billion to raise stake in Indian unit | Reuters

GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) (GSK.L) said on Monday it plans to raise its stake in its Indian pharmaceutical unit to up to 75 percent from…

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Fortify founders close accelerator to focus on web series, new ventures

Fortify founders close accelerator to focus on web series, new ventures

The Fort, one of the first startup accelerators in the D.C. area, may be closing its physical doors, but according to Jonathon Perrelli, managing…

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Launch of Horizon 2020 – The EU Framewok Programme for Research – From James Gavigan

Launch of Horizon 2020 – The EU Framewok Programme for Research – From James Gavigan

The following is an email sent by James P Gavigan, PhD, Head of the Science, Technology and Education Section, Delegation of the European Union to…

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Spring Capital raises $175M for VC fund – Baltimore Business Journal

Spring Capital raises $175M for VC fund – Baltimore Business Journal

Spring Capital Partners has completed fundraising for a $175 million fund that will invest in small to midsize companies. The fund is the third…

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You’ll Make More Money If You Can Code

You’ll Make More Money If You Can Code

Being able to learn marketable digital skills is sluggish and difficult — or so they say. Adda Birnir noticed a gender divide between a…

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Which healthcare VCs have hit the most grand slams? Here’s one way of looking at it

Which healthcare VCs have hit the most grand slams? Here’s one way of looking at it

When something like three in four venture-backed startups fail, picking the ones that won’t is definitely not an easy feat. In search of what…

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MedImmune inks $6.5 million R&D partnership with Johns Hopkins – Baltimore Business Journal

MedImmune inks $6.5 million R&D partnership with Johns Hopkins – Baltimore Business Journal

MedImmune announced on Wednesday a $6.5 million research partnership with Johns Hopkins University, marking the second academic collaboration inked by the Gaithersburg biotech in…

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Emergent BioSolutions buys commercial drugmaker Cangene – Washington Business Journal

Emergent BioSolutions buys commercial drugmaker Cangene – Washington Business Journal

Rockville-based biodefense company Emergent BioSolutions, taking steps to move deeper into the commercial drugmaking world, is paying $222 million to buy Cangene Corp., a…

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Patent box encourages GSK to invest $330 mln more in UK | Reuters

Patent box encourages GSK to invest $330 mln more in UK | Reuters

GlaxoSmithKline is to invest another 200 million pounds ($330 million) on advanced manufacturing in Britain, the company said on Wednesday, underlining the draw of…

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BD Diagnostics introduces two ESR instruments to improve patient care in point of care settings

BD Diagnostics introduces two ESR instruments to improve patient care in point of care settings

BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today introduced two new erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)…

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