BioHealth News Archive
GlaxoSmithKline JV wins FDA OK on HIV blockbuster dolutegravir – FierceBiotech
The FDA has stamped an OK on GlaxoSmithKline's HIV drug dolutegravir--to be sold as Tivicay. The approval marks another key advance for Glaxo ($GSK)…
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NHLBI Regional Innovation Conference San Francisco Tickets, San Francisco – September 10, 2013
This conference brings together small businesses, angel investors, venture capitalists, strategic partners, and business leaders from the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. It will feature…
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Report: Rockville Biotech’s Malaria Vaccine Could Hit Market Soon – Business – Rockville, MD Patch
While scientists have struggled for decades to produce an effective malaria vaccine, Rockville-based biotech company Sanaria is encouraged enough by clinical trials that it…
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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