BioHealth News Archive

Global Trade Forums – Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce

Global Trade Forums – Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce

MEXICO-U.S. INNOVATIVE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES Tuesday, September 17, 2013; 7:30 AM - 10:30 AM Mexico is currently the 3rd largest goods trading partner to the…

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Technology: The Cure for Rising Healthcare Costs? – MIT Technology Review

Technology: The Cure for Rising Healthcare Costs? – MIT Technology Review

In a financially stretched healthcare market, medical technology is sometimes seen as an expensive luxury. But use of the RIGHT technology can actually cut…

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Cost-Saving Innovation Needed in Health Care – MIT Technology Review

Cost-Saving Innovation Needed in Health Care – MIT Technology Review

Moore’s Law predicts that every two years the cost of computing will fall by half. That is why we can be sure that tomorrow’s…

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Webcast – Is the Pharmaceutical Innovation Model Broken? And can Open Innovation Mend it?

Webcast – Is the Pharmaceutical Innovation Model Broken? And can Open Innovation Mend it?

Sign up for the live Q&A Webcast > Date & time: October 1, 2013 at 16:00 Central European Time (US: 10:00 EST, 7:00 PST)…

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5 more must-know emerging tech trends for healthcare innovators (readers’ version) | MedCity News

5 more must-know emerging tech trends for healthcare innovators (readers’ version) | MedCity News

Once the healthcare innovator’s guide to must-know tech terms for the next decade of medicine hit on Monday, the feedback started coming in. It’s…

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NOT-OD-13-109: NIH Offers Niche Assessment Program to SBIR and STTR Phase

NOT-OD-13-109: NIH Offers Niche Assessment Program to SBIR and STTR Phase

NIH announces the availability of a Niche Assessment Program for its SBIR/STTR Phase I awardees funded in fiscal years (FY) 2013 and 2014. All…

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Montgomery County Rocks the Inc. 500 List

Montgomery County Rocks the Inc. 500 List

Ten of Maryland's nineteen fastest-growing companies are located in Montgomery County – including the state's highest-ranking company and two of our incubator companies! Ten…

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UMB Pharmacy Researchers Develop Promising Chronic Pain Drug

UMB Pharmacy Researchers Develop Promising Chronic Pain Drug

A team of researchers led by Andrew Coop, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (PSC) at the University of Maryland…

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Leggett, Montgomery business and civic leaders to visit China – The Washington Post

Leggett, Montgomery business and civic leaders to visit China – The Washington Post

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett will visit China next month, leading a delegation of business and civic leaders looking for partnership opportunities in areas…

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BD ProbeTec™ Trichomonas vaginalis Qx Assay Launches on the BD Viper™ System with XTR™ Technology in the United States

BD ProbeTec™ Trichomonas vaginalis Qx Assay Launches on the BD Viper™ System with XTR™ Technology in the United States

BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today the U.S. Food and…

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First tenants relocate to Highlandtown tech incubator – The Baltimore Guide

First tenants relocate to Highlandtown tech incubator – The Baltimore Guide

One of the first tenants to lease at Emerging Technology Center’s new Highlandtown location is SameGrain, developer of a social discovery platform that helps people anonymously…

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ATCC Announces Creation of Biomaterial Contributor Network

ATCC Announces Creation of Biomaterial Contributor Network

ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, announces material deposit agreements with over 30 leading public and private institutions. These institutions…

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Johns Hopkins Researchers Find Promising Therapeutic Target for Hard-To-Treat Brain Tumor

Johns Hopkins Researchers Find Promising Therapeutic Target for Hard-To-Treat Brain Tumor

Johns Hopkins researchers say they have found a specific protein in nearly 100 percent of high-grade meningiomas — the most common form of brain…

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AstraZeneca to buy US cancer firm for up to $500 million

AstraZeneca to buy US cancer firm for up to $500 million

AstraZeneca Plc took a further step to bolster its pipeline of new cancer drugs on Monday by agreeing to acquire privately held U.S. biotech…

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A healthcare innovator’s guide to must-know tech terms for the next decade of medicine

A healthcare innovator’s guide to must-know tech terms for the next decade of medicine

Electronic medical records. DNA sequencing. Big data. These technology trends are changing the way medicine is practiced today — but what's coming next? I…

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