BioHealth News Archive
Medical Innovation Playbook – Cleveland Clinic
Each year, nearly $100 billion is spent in the United States on healthcare related research, with an increasing proportion of the breakthrough research being…
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Innovation Through Collaboration – INSEAD Knowledge
As aging populations put a strain on cash-strapped governments, chronic illness and rare disease prevention is taking centre stage in healthcare. To meet new…
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Johns Hopkins Students Win Top ‘Inventors’ Prize
A Johns Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering student team headed by Indian American Piyush Poddar that devised a two-part system to improve the way life-saving…
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OneStart Life Science Entrepreneurship Competition Comes to the Americas – Synapse
The OneStart Americas competition, a partnership between Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable and SR One, the venture capital arm of GlaxoSmithKline, officially launched on November 4…
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How Researchers Could Identify Signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Living NFL Players – MIT Technology Review
Eight former pro football players learned this year that they have signs of a degenerative brain disorder called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition…
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NIH research is ailing from the budget squeeze – The Washington Post
FRANCIS S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been distributing a chart that shows the success rate of grant applications…
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Emergent BioSolutions could invest up to $120M in Baltimore, CFO says – Baltimore Business Journal
Emergent BioSolutions Inc.’s U.S. Health and Human Services contract to help produce flu vaccines in the event of a pandemic are key to the…
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Christie Administration Approves $60 Million to Grow Tech/Bio Tech Industry in New Jersey
In support of the Christie Administration's commitment to nurturing the growth of emerging technology and biotechnology businesses, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA)…
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Bethesda’s Northwest Biotherapeutics, developer of personalized immune therapies for solid tumor cancers raises $27,025,000
Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: NWBO), a biotechnology company developing DCVax® personalized immune therapies for solid tumor cancers, has completed an underwritten public offering of…
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HealthCare.gov enrollment totals higher this Sunday and Monday than all of October
About 29,00 people signed up for health insurance through the troubled HealthCare.gov website on Sunday and Monday, a number that is higher than the…
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Noble Life Sciences Inc. Receives Maryland TEDCO Award For Development Of Ex Vivo And In Vivo Assays For Anti-Metastatic Drug Development
Noble Life Sciences (Gaithersburg, MD) announced today that the company has been awarded a Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) grant of $100,000 from the Maryland…
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In The Hospital Of The Future, Big Data Is One Of Your Doctors – Co.Exist
From our genomes to Jawbones, the amount of data about health is exploding. Bringing on top Silicon Valley talent, one NYC hospital is preparing…
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Beltsville spinoff gets boost from MedStar, Cleveland Clinic – Baltimore Business Journal
Technology once used to help helicopters fly better will in the future be used to help patients breathe better. InnoVital Systems, a spinoff of…
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Tech Council of Maryland Partners with Year Up National Capital Region for Workforce Development Initiative
The Tech Council of Maryland (TCM), Maryland’s largest trade association for technology and life science companies, today announced that it has partnered with Year…
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Revolution Growth invests $22M in organic salad chain Sweetgreen – Washington Business Journal
Revolution Growth is investing $22 million in Sweetgreen, an organic salad retail chain launched by three Georgetown grads in 2007 that has since expanded…
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