BioHealth News Archive
Impatient with NIH, cancer researcher turns to crowdfunding – Star Tribune
Dr. Daniel Saltzman says he can prove that bacteria that ordinarily cause food poisoning in people can be modified for use as guided missiles…
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A New Face Proposed for Baltimore County’s Economic Development Department – Conduit Street
As reported in the Baltimore News Journal, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz on Monday proposed a new department name and department head nominee for the County’s economic…
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QIAGEN Announces Companion Diagnostics ProgramQIAGEN
QIAGEN has announced an agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to develop and commercialize a molecular companion diagnostic paired with a novel Lilly oncology…
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Johns Hopkins: You Can Thank Johns Hopkins for the Invention of CPR – InTheCapital
Before 1960, the only way to treat cardiac arrest involved opening up the chest cavity and applying manual cardiac massage. The surgeon would take…
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Bay Area Startup Benefits from GSK Portfolio Deal | BayBio Institute
GlaxoSmithKline’s $500 million portfolio with Avalon Ventures invested in its in first startup – Palo Alto-based Sitari Pharmaceuticals. According to Fierce Biotech, the San…
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EventFlow: Exploring Point and Interval Event Temporal Patterns
The HCIL's ongoing work with temporal event records has produced powerful tools for analyzing and exploring patterns of point-based events (Lifelines2, LifeFlow). However, users…
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Health Care Opens Up – Morgan Fletcher
Open innovation is not new, but it is relatively new to health care, igniting a broad cross-section of challenges, hackathons, and competitions that seek…
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Crowdfunding for Science – NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly
It’s more than likely that the readers of the NPQ Newswire may not be all that heavily involved in scientific research, but for those…
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Higher Ed: Wiki Allows Students to Share Information About Their Innovation Ecosystem on Campus – InTheCapital
Imagine a website launched by students, for students to share information about their innovation ecosystem on campus. I'm talking a navigation tool of sorts…
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Celgene collaborates with VC-backed biotech incubator in search of life science innovations
Several pharmaceutical companies such as Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Merck (NYSE: MRK) , and Bayer (NYSE: have been taking steps to infuse their…
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Look Who’s Hiring in Biotech: Companies That Are Built to Last – Xconomy
Many of today’s biotech companies don’t aspire to be companies at all. They’re more like temporary “virtual” projects, with skeleton crews of contractors who…
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Conscious Venture Lab launches crowdfunding campaign – Baltimore Business Journal
A new business accelerator in Howard County has launched a crowdfunding campaign to get off the ground. Conscious Venture Lab in Columbia is looking…
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Universities See Promise in ‘Disruptive’ Online Courses – Wall Street Journal – WSJ.com
The head of Maryland’s university system on Wednesday said higher education needs to embrace disruptive technologies such as massive online courses in an effort…
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Life science innovations: How are computers and robots helping pharma R&D?
With the cost of drug development hitting the $5 billion mark and 94 percent of drugs failing at some point in clinical development, pharmaceutical…
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The Right Way to Grant Equity to Your Employees
The equity culture among young technology companies is almost universal. When implemented properly, broad employee ownership within a company can: Align the risk and…
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