BioHealth News Archive

UMBC cyber incubator expansion attracts regional entrepreneurs – Baltimore Business Journal

UMBC cyber incubator expansion attracts regional entrepreneurs – Baltimore Business Journal

How can you tell Maryland is becoming a hotbed for cyber security business? Ellen J. Hemmerly said it’s obvious from the companies looking into…

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MedImmune marks 25th year with reception for founder – Gazette.Net

MedImmune marks 25th year with reception for founder – Gazette.Net

Montgomery County’s largest biotechnology company, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week, actually hatched from a meeting in the Big Apple. In the…

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Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland to build research and science center in East Baltimore

Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland to build research and science center in East Baltimore

The state's two major research institutions, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, College Park , are partnering to build a research and science center in East…

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GSK signs agreement with BARDA for anthrax treatment – BioPrepWatch.com

GSK signs agreement with BARDA for anthrax treatment – BioPrepWatch.com

GlaxoSmithKline announced on Thursday that it has signed a four-year contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority for the provision of its…

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A new mobile health accelerator, provided by Sprint and Techstars – MedCity News

A new mobile health accelerator, provided by Sprint and Techstars – MedCity News

Sprint (NYSE: S) is upping its mobile health game in a new partnership with Techstars. The mobile service provider and its startup accelerator partner…

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Anne Arundel company joins global telemedicine market – CapitalGazette.com: Business

Anne Arundel company joins global telemedicine market – CapitalGazette.com: Business

A Maryland patient with a fever could one day enter a photo booth-like facility and leave with a diagnosis and prescription. A Severna Park…

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GSK joins Gates Foundation, others in $94M global health investment fund

GSK joins Gates Foundation, others in $94M global health investment fund

Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline is joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, other firms and other individual investors in launching a $94 million…

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NHLBI: Funding and Research, NHLBI, NIH

NHLBI: Funding and Research, NHLBI, NIH

The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of interest: {iframe}http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/funding/index.htm{/iframe}

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DreamIt Health aims to foster health IT in Baltimore – Baltimore Business Journal

DreamIt Health aims to foster health IT in Baltimore – Baltimore Business Journal

A health IT accelerator is launching in Baltimore with the aim of pulling more technology out of Baltimore’s biggest research university and drawing more…

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UMD Recognized for Top Entrepreneurship Programs

UMD Recognized for Top Entrepreneurship Programs

The University of Maryland has once again made The Princeton Review's list of the country's top entrepreneurship programs. In the 2014 list of the…

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Aris Melissaratos being replaced as Hopkins’ top tech transfer adviser – Baltimore Business Journal

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

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

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

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

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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