BioHealth News Archive
Cells inside a body reprogrammed to become stem cells New Scientist
Normal adult cells have been reprogrammed to become stem cells inside live mice for the first time. As stem cells can be coaxed into…
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University of Maryland, Northrop Grumman Announce Launch of Nation’s First Cybersecurity Honors Program, Sept. 25
The University of Maryland and Northrop Grumman will jointly announce the launch of the Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students (ACES), the nation's first cybersecurity…
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Interested in starting your own technology company?…Start with INNoVATE
The INNo program trains research scientists in the entrepreneurial skills needed to bring technology inventions and services to the healthcare market. Participants in the…
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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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