BioHealth News Archive
Baltimore needs to shed old-fashioned ways to spark innovation – Baltimore Business Journal
Newt Fowler looked across Baltimore’s Renaissance Hotel ballroom and noted who was missing from the tables. Sure, there are plenty of leaders in today’s…
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Maryland’s innovation economy has a lot in its favor — but more needs to be done – Baltimore Business Journal
What we’ve got in our corner: Everything from good schools to a really funky music scene. What we need to do: Everything from reform…
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Sage Growth Partners sees business boom from electronic health record push – Baltimore Business Journal
Baltimore’s Sage Growth Partners sees opportunity where others see a headache. Over the past few years Sage, a health care technology consulting firm, has…
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NCSES Business R&D Performance in the United States Increased in 2011 – US National Science Foundation (NSF)
Companies spent $294 billion on research and development performed in the United States during 2011, compared with $279 billion during 2010 (table 1). Funding…
Read MoreNIH announces awards to strengthen the biomedical research workforce
The National Institutes of Health is making available approximately $3.7 million for awards to enhance training opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to…
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University of Maryland entrepreneurship program extends eligibility to all majors
Anyone can have a great business idea, and now students don't have to be enrolled in the business school to get help making their…
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MedImmune, University of Maryland, Baltimore team on research – Baltimore Business Journal
University of Maryland, Baltimore and MedImmune are pairing up for a five-year, $6 million collaboration on bioscience research. The Gaithersburg-based drug company and the…
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GSK, Merck and Pfizer join JP Morgan vaccine investment fund – FierceVaccines
The success of MenAfriVac shows vaccines can be developed outside Big Pharma's walls, but, in most cases, the cost of late-phase trials is too…
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NIH launches new centers to accelerate lab innovations to improve public health
The National Institutes of Health has launched a major initiative to improve how basic science advances and discoveries are translated into commercially viable products…
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Three big mistakes medical device companies make when pitching VCs – MedCity News
Venture capital for early-stage medical device companies is drying up. At Advamed 2013, I was able to sit down and talk to Paul Grand,…
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These HIT startups are using the cloud to help providers and business associates comply with HIPAA – MedCity News
With the enforcement of the HIPAA Omnibus final rule starting this week, health IT companies face liability for breaches of patients’ protected health information…
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Sub-Saharan Africa: ‘perhaps the next frontier’ for medical device industry, says Covidien CEO – MedCity News
Covidien President and CEO Joe Almeida said in a little more than a decade, sub-Saharan Africa could be the big opportunity for medical device…
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NHLBI Funding Opportunity Announcements, Sept. 25, 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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Rock Health’s latest batch of digital health startups: Mental health, smart spoons, and more – VentureBeat
At Rock Health, entrepreneurs are developing innovative products to keep us healthier, and lower medical care costs. Ten health startups in Rock Health’s current accelerator…
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FDA gets thumbs up on mobile apps regs – Healthcare IT News
mHealth advocates are giving good early reviews to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's final guidance document on the regulation of mobile medical apps,…
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