BioHealth News Archive
Target launches healthcare innovation challenge. It’s aim: simplify healthcare – MedCity News
Target has joined one of the growing trends in healthcare: innovation challenges. It announced on Monday two contests: one will seek a solution that…
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Pitch perfect – The Daily Times
Maryland entrepreneurs are getting the chance to bring their small business plans directly to a panel of angel investors who could bring those ideas…
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Harvard University Partners With VC Firms To Launch New Fund
Harvard University has partnered with several venture capital firms to launch The Experiment Fund. The Experiment Fund is starting with $10 million and was…
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UMd. system spurs 187 new companies from research, report says – Baltimore Business Journal
University System of Maryland increased the number of new companies formed out of university technology by 29 percent in fiscal 2013 and is aiming…
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Hopkins inches up in U.S. News rankings – baltimoresun.com
The Johns Hopkins University edged closer to the top 10 of national universities on the U.S. News and World Report annual rankings, which were…
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Which VCs are Poised to Profit From the Biotech IPO Boom? – Xconomy
Biotech venture capitalists, as a group, haven’t had much to cheer about the past few years. But this is shaping up to be the…
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The Wireless Way to Save Health-Care Costs – MIT Technology Review
I visited cardiologist Eric Topol at the Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, California, one day this summer. He’d had a busy morning seeing…
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Healthcare job growth flying high – Healthcare IT News
While U.S. job growth was less than economists expected in August – increasing by 169,000 – the healthcare sector remained a bright spot, adding…
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CIT to Host MACH37™ Cyber Accelerator Launch Event – Thursday, September 12, 2013
The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today it will host an event with Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell launching the MACH37™ Cyber Accelerator on…
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UMD Kicks Off Semester with Expanded Innovation Fridays – UMD Right Now
Kicking off the fall semester, the University of Maryland is giving the thousands of innovative minds across campus new ways to share and explore…
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Driving Innovation in Breast Cancer – Breast Cancer Start-up Challenge
High Level Overview - Recapped The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a significant portfolio of inventions available for licensing. The Center for Advancing…
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Stanford University Is Going To Invest In Student Startups Like A VC Firm – TechCrunch
Stanford University is going to start directly investing in students’ companies. Stanford is also giving a $3.6 million grant to StartX, a non-profit startup…
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National Venture Capital Funding of Life Sciences Increases 26% in Q2 – San Diego Business Journal
There has been a sharp increase in venture capital funding of life sciences companies in the second quarter of 2013, according to a new…
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Making cancer drugs more effective – The Washington Post
Dr. Michael M. Gottesman has spent nearly four decades as a highly respected scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), conducting important studies…
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Governor Martin O’Malley kicks off 2nd annual InvestMaryland Challenge – MDBIZNews
Governor Martin O’Malley today via video kicked off the 2nd annual InvestMaryland Challenge, a national business competition that supports Maryland startups and strengthens a…
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