BioHealth News Archive
What’s attracting big pharma to pre-clinical deals? – MedCity News
Roche’s move to skip over Inovio’s (NYSE: INO) late stage drugs for cervical cancer and Hepatitis C and make a beeline for its preclinical…
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Big deals: The 10 biggest D.C. Tech investments of 2013 – Washington Business Journal
Two Washington region tech companies — Clarabridge Inc. and Virtustream Inc. — rolled out a combined $120 million in funding on Tuesday, another sign…
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Lessons from Boston – Abell Foundation’s Report Comparing Innovation Ecosystems – Baltimore Citybizlist
The Abell Foundation underwrote a comparison of Baltimore’s innovation ecosystem with that of Boston. Sean Pool and Matt Van Itallie, of Canterbury Road Partners,…
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UMD Startup Shell – Who Is in the Shell? on Vimeo
This video is the first in a series about Startup Shell, the first student-founded, student-run venture incubator at the University of Maryland. The Startup…
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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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