BioHealth News Archive

J&J, Takeda, Orbimed consortium win biotech incubator tender – Globes

J&J, Takeda, Orbimed consortium win biotech incubator tender – Globes

BioBoost, a consortium of OrbiMed Advisors LLC, Johnson and Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (TSE: 4502) has won the tender to…

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How To Make A Vegetarian Fish – Science News – redOrbit

How To Make A Vegetarian Fish – Science News – redOrbit

University of Maryland researchers announced last week they have been able to successfully turn a fish known for eating anything, the cobia, into a…

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Biotech accelerator BioMotiv gets a $20M commitment from new investor – FierceBiotech

Biotech accelerator BioMotiv gets a $20M commitment from new investor – FierceBiotech

A week after Cleveland's nascent biotech accelerator BioMotiv bumped its financial reserves to $46 million, Torrey Pines Investment has stepped in to offer a…

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HHSentrepreneurs: Open Government at HHS

HHSentrepreneurs: Open Government at HHS

HHS is working to attract entrepreneurial talent to create a culture that supports risk-taking and accelerates innovation. HHSentrepreneurs is based on the HHS Innovation…

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How Much Does Pharmaceutical Innovation Cost? A Look At 100 Companies – Forbes

How Much Does Pharmaceutical Innovation Cost? A Look At 100 Companies – Forbes

No factor defines success and failure for a drug company more than this: Companies that invent more, better drugs at a lower cost do…

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Entrepreneurs Eye Technology To Cut Hospital Readmissions – iHealthBeat

Entrepreneurs Eye Technology To Cut Hospital Readmissions – iHealthBeat

Some hospitals are turning to technology entrepreneurs to reduce readmission rates and avoid penalties imposed under the Affordable Care Act, the Wall Street Journal…

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How MyFitnessPal Became The Strongest Digital-Health Startup—Without Silicon Valley’s Help – ReadWrite

How MyFitnessPal Became The Strongest Digital-Health Startup—Without Silicon Valley’s Help – ReadWrite

Kleiner Perkins, the investor behind Google and Amazon, and Accel Partners, best known for its investment in Facebook, are putting $18 million into MyFitnessPal,…

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How Self-Expiring Medicine Packaging Could Change The World | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

How Self-Expiring Medicine Packaging Could Change The World | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

For most of us, the blister packs our medicines come in are just temporary barriers to be scratched open with our fingernails or popped…

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New dean at UMD business school – baltimoresun.com

New dean at UMD business school – baltimoresun.com

The University of Maryland announced Monday that long-time finance professor Alexander J. Triantis has been appointed dean of the Robert H. Smith School of…

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Formal partnership may mean more SBIR/STTR funding – Bridging 96

Formal partnership may mean more SBIR/STTR funding – Bridging 96

Money may not make the world go round, but it does keep companies innovating. The Small Business & Technology Development Center has made formal…

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Increasing the Impact of Federally-Funded R&D

Increasing the Impact of Federally-Funded R&D

by Joseph P. Allen and Diane Palmintera The Final ReportOn May 20, 2013, the White House Lab-To-Market Inter-Agency Summit was held in Washington, D.C. The…

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NHLBI Funding Opportunity Announcements – August 9, 2013

NHLBI Funding Opportunity Announcements – August 9, 2013

The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of interest:NIH Guide Notice: NOT-OD-13-095):…

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GlaxoSmithKline bases new VC fund at One Broadway in Kendall – Boston Business Journal

GlaxoSmithKline bases new VC fund at One Broadway in Kendall – Boston Business Journal

GlaxoSmithKline's new $50 million venture capital fund will be based out of the One Broadway building in Cambridge's Kendall Square, inside an office of…

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GSK launches $50M fund to invest in pioneering bioelectronics technology – MedCity News

GSK launches $50M fund to invest in pioneering bioelectronics technology – MedCity News

About one year ago GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) set up a division to study the electrical impulses along the peripheral nervous system and develop technologies…

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Life Sciences Discovery Fund 2013-2014 Granting Programs Now Open

Life Sciences Discovery Fund 2013-2014 Granting Programs Now Open

Proof of Concept grants are intended to enhance the commercial viability of health-related technologies or concepts developed by non-profit organizations or enhance the competitiveness…

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