BioHealth News Archive
Report: Venture capital deals in the Washington region strong in third quarter – The Washington Post
Investors are pouring venture capital dollars into the Washington region at a pace not seen in more than a decade. Companies across the Washington…
Read More
Graham had an idea for a biotech venture, and ran with it – Gazette.Net
As an African-American man entering a Caucasian-dominated industry, Solomon Graham wasn’t intimidated when he founded Quality Biological in 1983, investing $10,000 of his own…
Read More
Health IT deals help push software deals to 12-year high but life science struggles – MedCity News
Investments in electronic health records, tools to help hospitals absorb physician practices anda group working with hospital systems to help them set up their…
Read More
Inside 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki’s $99 DNA Revolution – Fast Company
You can purchase 14 gallons of organic milk or 396 lollipops. You can give her 33 rides on the Ferris wheel at the state…
Read More
Mtech News, Opportunities and Events: October 18, 2013 – Newsletter
The latest of edition of Mtech News published by Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute. {iframe}http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=2b5264a400e340841befc4ef7&id=bc9f0d9791{/iframe} Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute
Read More
AstraZeneca, Taiwan’s Biopharma Program To Collaborate
AstraZeneca and Taiwan’s National Research Program for Biopharmaceuticals (NRPB) today announced a collaborative program to support academic research proposals using open innovation as a…
Read More
T. Boone Pickens plans $20M gift to Hopkins’ Wilmer Eye Institute – Baltimore Business Journal
Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens plans to give Johns Hopkins University $20 million to help spur potentially vision-saving research at the school’s Wilmer Eye…
Read More
Cleveland Clinic’s picks for top innovations in 2014: The bionic eye, gene tests for cancer – MedCity News
Each year, a committee of Cleveland Clinic doctors asks hundreds of their colleagues to weigh in on which emerging healthcare technologies they think will…
Read More
Biocrossroads picks seven Indiana health IT, life science startups to compete for venture capital – MedCity News
Biocrossroads, which provides money and support to Indiana’s life sciences industry, announced the seven finalists who stand to gain startup funding in its annual…
Read More
14 health startups get into 3-year incubator program – Modern Healthcare
StartUp Health, a New York-based incubator for health technology startups, admitted 14 new companies into its three-year development program this week. The program, which…
Read More
Your Liver May Be “Eating” Your Brain: Scientific American
Your liver could be "eating" your brain, new research suggests. People with extra abdominal fat are three times more likely than lean individuals to…
Read More
The Secret to Making Board Meetings Suck Less
“When I was a young entrepreneur, board meetings were by far the worst days of my life,” says Jeff Bonforte, the veteran company-builder who…
Read More
Under Armour launches $25,000 innovation challenge for Armour39 device – Baltimore Business Journal
Under Armour Inc. is hunting for the techies that can help the company beef up its fitness tracking device known as Armour39. Armour39, a…
Read More
MedImmune leads $12.5M round for new drug aimed at big chemo market – FierceBiotech
MedImmune's venture arm has jumped in to lead a $12.5 million round for a Chapel Hill, NC-based startup that is working on a new…
Read More
QIAGEN Launches Empowered Genome Community, Invites Citizen Scientists and Researchers to Pool and Collaboratively Interpret Human Genomes – MarketWatch
QIAGEN N.V. (frankfurt prime standard:QIA) today announced the Empowered Genome Community, which is a first-of-its-kind initiative to help people who have had their genomes…
Read More