BioHealth News Archive
Aris Melissaratos being replaced as Hopkins’ top tech transfer adviser – Baltimore Business Journal
Aris Melissaratos is being replaced as Johns Hopkins University’s top technology commercialization adviser, as the university looks to delve deeper into entrepreneurship. Christy Wyskiel,…
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Emergent emerging as County’s next biotech star – Montgomery Economic Development e-Alert
As a result of a strategic collaboration among the Maryland, Montgomery County and City of Gaithersburg economic development offices, Emergent Biosolutions - maker of…
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Why Health Care Will Become More Like Online Retail – MIT Technology Review
The idea that technology will change medicine is as old as the electronic computer itself. Actually, even older. In 1945, Vannevar Bush, the man…
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A look at startups spun out of the University System of Maryland – Baltimore Business Journal
The University System of Maryland played a role in launching or propelling about 180 startup companies in fiscal 2013, according to a new report…
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Another Md. biotech scoops up an ex-Human Genome Sciences exec – Washington Business Journal
When GlaxoSmithKline made a clean sweep of Human Genome Sciences execs last year following its $3.6 billion buyout of the Rockville biotech, one big…
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Johns Hopkins Announces Plans to Cosponsor Accelerator for Health IT Startups – InTheCapital
Sure, Johns Hopkins University is known for its medicinal prowess, but what better way to increase the university's influence on the health care sector…
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Mayo Clinic Joins the Arizona Furnace Technology Transfer Accelerator
Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic announced today that Mayo will become a technology transfer participant to join Arizona Furnace, the startup accelerator that…
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Sequester hurts biomedical research – baltimoresun.com
To us, biomedical research is not an abstract idea funded by wasteful government spending. It is work done by driven and passionate young people…
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UMB Breaks Ground on New, $305.4 Million Health Sciences Facility III – UMB News
The University of Maryland, Baltimore, has broken ground on its largest building ever, a $305.4 million, 10-story, 428,970-square-foot biomedical research facility called the Health…
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Tech Council of Maryland Names Philip Schiff as CEO
The Tech Council of Maryland (TCM), Maryland’s largest trade association for bioscience and technology companies employing more than 200,000 in the region, today announced…
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Emergent plans to add jobs, move to Gaithersburg from Rockville – Gazette.Net
Rockville biotechnology company Emergent BioSolutions plans to buy a Gaithersburg building and move its 112 employees at its headquarters there, as well as add…
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University of Maryland Receives Largest Ever Software Grant from Siemens – MarketWatch
The University of Maryland (UMD) and Siemens Corporation announced today the largest ever in-kind software grant from Siemens PLM Software. The in-kind grant has…
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Life Science Venture Capital Financing and Fundraising Activity Remain Slow, Despite Surge in Biotech IPO Activity, According to First Half 2013 Fenwick & West Survey
Fenwick & West LLP, one of the nation's premier law firms providing comprehensive legal services to high technology and life science clients, today announced…
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University of Maryland School of Medicine to break ground on $305 million research building – baltimoresun.com
Winning a $1.6 million federal grant to buy a robotic system to store 1 million blood, urine and tissue samples was easy compared to…
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Health IT-Enabled Quality Measurement – AHRQ National Resource Center
A report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), “Health IT-Enabled Quality Measurement: Perspectives, Pathways, and Practical Guidance,” outlines experts’ viewpoints on…
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