BioHealth News Archive

Life Science Dolphin Tank Pitch Session – Eventbrite

Life Science Dolphin Tank Pitch Session – Eventbrite

December 19, 2013 6:00-8:00 PM William Hanna Center for Innovation at Shady Grove, 9700 Great Seneca Hwy Rockville, MD 20850 Springboard Enterprises presents the Dolphin Tank, a…

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DreamIt Ventures is raising a $30M fund to invest in its portfolio companies – Technical.ly Philly

DreamIt Ventures is raising a $30M fund to invest in its portfolio companies – Technical.ly Philly

DreamIt Ventures is raising a $30 million fund to further support its portfolio companies. The five-year-old early-stage startup accelerator has raised $10 million so…

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JS Yoon Memorial Cancer Research Institute Expands within University of Maryland BioPark

JS Yoon Memorial Cancer Research Institute Expands within University of Maryland BioPark

The University of Maryland (UM) BioPark announced today that the JS Yoon Memorial Cancer Research Institute, a basic research organization looking at the fundamental…

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What is 21st century education? – YouTube

What is 21st century education? – YouTube

Our world is changing at an unprecedented pace. To prepare our students, lessons must go beyond the "3 R's" and foster 21st century skills.…

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NYC to form $100M venture capital fund in biotech – Fox Business Video

NYC to form $100M venture capital fund in biotech – Fox Business Video

NYC Economic Development Corporation president Kyle Kimball on New York City working with large pharmaceutical companies and venture capital firms to create $100M fund.…

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NHLBI Microfluidic Devices Funding Opportunity

NHLBI Microfluidic Devices Funding Opportunity

Development of a Microfluidic Platform for Blood Testing in Neonatal and Pediatric Patients STTR (R41) - RFA-HL-14-025 This FOA encourages applications to develop microfluidic…

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Trio of Baltimore-area businessmen look to invest in health care firms – Baltimore Business Journal

Trio of Baltimore-area businessmen look to invest in health care firms – Baltimore Business Journal

Aging baby boomers, Obamacare and a greater push toward electronic medical records. Three Baltimore-area investment heavyweights — Paul Silber, Rick Kohr Jr. and Harrison…

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Why investors will continue to embrace the medical device industry

Why investors will continue to embrace the medical device industry

Against a backdrop of slowing healthcare expenditures and ongoing implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the dynamics of the U.S. medical device industry…

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Johns Hopkins again tops in university research spending – The Washington Post

Johns Hopkins again tops in university research spending – The Washington Post

It is customary in higher education to dismiss rankings as misleading and arbitrary, quantifying things that don’t much matter about colleges and universities. But…

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Three common mistakes on the road to commercialization and how to navigate for success

Three common mistakes on the road to commercialization and how to navigate for success

Many start-up medical device and diagnostic companies offer some of the most promising technologies in the industry. As a result, most large medical device…

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Biotech Entrepreneur’s Fortune Nearly Doubles After Strong Clinical Trials For Cancer Treatment – Forbes

Biotech Entrepreneur’s Fortune Nearly Doubles After Strong Clinical Trials For Cancer Treatment – Forbes

Alan Auerbach is the brains and leadership behind Puma Biotechnology PBYI -2.29%, a biopharma acquirer and developer of innovative cancer treatments that has had…

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Sanofi US Launches Second Innovation Challenge: Collaborate  – WSJ.com

Sanofi US Launches Second Innovation Challenge: Collaborate – WSJ.com

Today, Sanofi US launched its second Partners in Patient Health (PiPH) Innovation Challenge: Collaborate | Innovate, which will award $100,000 to the winning team.…

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New NHLBI Program Trains Scientists to Bring More Science Out of the Lab and into the Patient Care Marketplace – NHLBI, NIH

New NHLBI Program Trains Scientists to Bring More Science Out of the Lab and into the Patient Care Marketplace – NHLBI, NIH

When you speak with Dr. Joseph Loscalzo about the new Boston Biomedical Innovation Center, you can’t help but get excited about the prospects of…

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How to Get Rid of the Flu in One Day

How to Get Rid of the Flu in One Day

Flu or influenza (caused by influenza virus) is a miserable experience as it daunts the victim with countless sneezes, head aches and fever. Flu…

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A call for ‘responsible’ entrepreneurs – baltimoresun.com

A call for ‘responsible’ entrepreneurs – baltimoresun.com

Few companies watch their bottom line with more anxiety than startup firms, but the ones who want to move into a new business accelerator…

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