BioHealth News Archive
GlaxoSmithKline invests EUR17.5m in French venture for rare diseases – Pharmaceutical Business Review
UK-based healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced an investment of €17.5m ($23.5m) in a French venture firm to develop new drugs that have the…
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Maryland Researchers Make Batteries Out Of Wood – Forbes
A tiny, tin-coated piece of wood could one day be used as a high capacity and environmentally benign battery. A team of researchers at…
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Two Blues go for telehealth – Healthcare IT News
BlueCross BlueShield of Louisiana and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will provide online healthcare to their members with technology from American Well. Blue…
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Reminder of registration requirements prior to submitting SBIR/STTR applications to HHS
As our next receipt date is approximately 6 weeks away, we wanted to send a reminder to all new (and returning) HHS applicants about…
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iVantage Health Analytics Raises $10M in Equity to Further Accelerate Growth – Baltimore Citybizlist
iVantage Health Analytics, a leading provider of health care informatics and business analytics solutions that transform complex data into actionable business intelligence, announced it…
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Top U.S. cities for venture capital investment | SmartPlanet
Venture capital firms—and the high-tech startups they support—historically concentrated in suburban office parks, such as Silicon Valley and North Carolina’s Research Triangle. Richard Florida,…
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St. Louis Launches $100M Initiative to Strengthen Innovation Ecosystem
Business, civic, and political leaders in St. Louis are coming together to raise $100 million in private funds over the next five years to…
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NIH Resurrecting Big Pharma Castoffs: What it means for the Industry – Life Science Nation
The NIH has been faced with considerable difficulties as of late in terms of finding the required means to continue moving science forward at…
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New Patent Reform: What “First-Inventor-To-File” Means for Biotech and Medtech Companies – BioWorld Webinar
The America Invents Act (AIA), also known as the “patent reform bill,” is designed to modernize the U.S. patent system. One provision of the…
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Have a Start-Up? A Cool Idea? Montgomery College Has Kauffman FastTrac Entrepreneurship Courses – Inside MC Online
Montgomery College has become a certified affiliate of the Kauffman Foundation and its FastTrac series of courses intended to support future and current business…
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Emergent BioSolutions EVP Corporate Affairs Allen Shofe Appointed to MdBio Foundation Board of Directors
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) announced today that Allen Shofe, executive vice president of corporate affairs, has been appointed to serve on the board of…
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BD, JDRF partner to join artificial pancreas race – FierceDrugDelivery
The search for the artificial pancreas continues, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and Becton Dickinson ($BDX) have joined forces to develop an…
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AstraZeneca’s chief executive on the fight against cancer and the firm’s new Cambridge HQ – Cambridge News
“Don’t write that we have a cure for cancer tomorrow,” says Pascal Soriot, chief executive of AstraZeneca, “but there are some spectacular results.” Mr…
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Maryland universities seek to turn research into business – WBAL
Higher education is becoming big business as more students head off to college, but they're also about developing businesses, and the state is turning…
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University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business Launches Online MBA Program – WSJ.com
The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland will offer an online MBA program beginning in January 2014. Designed to…
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