BioHealth News Archive
Lockheed Martin opens health innovation center in Baltimore County – Baltimore Business Journal
Lockheed Martin Corp. will formally open on Wednesday a Center for Health Innovation in Baltimore County to help the defense contractor delve deeper into…
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NHLBI Funding Opportunity Announcements, December 3, 2013
Funding and Research Opportunities The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of…
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Silicon Valley is No Model for America – Newgeography.com
Its image further enhanced by the recent IPO of Twitter, Silicon Valley now stands in many minds as the cutting edge of the American…
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Fourth Edition of Building Biotechnology now Available – BiotechBlog
The fourth edition of Building Biotechnology, the premier biotechnology industry primer, is now available. Building Biotechnology has been adopted by dozens of educational programs, and is…
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Patenting University Research Has Been A Dismal Failure, Enabling Patent Trolling. It’s Time To Stop – Techdirt
For many years we've been incredibly critical of the famous Bayh-Dole Act, which was passed in 1980 with the idea that it would encourage…
Read MoreMaryland, NASA Partner on Tech Transfer – AMD
The state of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have embarked on a new partnership effort, the main goal of…
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FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) – Strategic Plan 2013-2017 – PDF
CDER’s mission is to protect and promote public health by helping to ensure that human drugs are safe and effective for their intended use,…
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MedStar, Cleveland Clinic alliance reach licensing deal on medical device – Washington Business Journal
MedStar Health and the Cleveland Clinic said Monday they'd signed a deal with a Maryland company to license patent rights for a medical device…
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Jason Hardebeck to lead DreamIt Health Baltimore accelerator – Baltimore Business Journal
A new health information technology accelerator has caught the eye of one of Baltimore’s technology leaders. Jason Hardebeck, executive director of the gb.tc, formerly…
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BioBuzz Builds Connections in Biotech and Life Sciences Industries – Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus Blog – Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus
Once a month, Growlers Brew Pub in Gaithersburg is packed with people talking about the latest trends in the biotechnology and life sciences industries.…
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How JHU landed at Homewood rather than at its founder’s summer home
In 1837, entrepreneur and philanthropist Johns Hopkins bought a Federal-style mansion located on 300 acres in northeast Baltimore. Henry Thompson, a businessman and War…
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Diagnosis for Healthcare.gov: Unrealistic Technology Expectations – MIT Technology Review
The fiasco with the $600 million federal health insurance website wasn’t all bureaucratic. Forcing slow and disparate databases run by government and insurance companies…
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The rise of 1776: How an accelerator blossomed in the nation’s capital
The Evan Burfield of June 2000 was the archetypal startup wunderkind, the kind of overachiever who naturally invites unfavorable comparisons to yourself at the…
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Medical device startups hit by decline of venture capital investment | TribLIVE
Peter DeComo raised $20 million from investors for Renal Solutions Inc. in 2002, when the Pittsburgh medical device company had only a working prototype…
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Five innovative obesity treatments as America prepares to unbutton its post-Thanksgiving pants
You’ve cracked open the crate of cranberries, stuck the turkey in the oven and are well into filling your second muffin tin with cornbread…
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