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Enhanced Search Engine for Available Technologies – FLC

Enhanced Search Engine for Available Technologies – FLC

Last fall, the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer introduced an improved Available Technologies search tool that made it faster and easier to search…

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A Toast to the Generalist – Asian Fortune

A Toast to the Generalist – Asian Fortune

This is the season of inaugurations and internships, with the class of 2014 college grads starting a new chapter in life in a recovering…

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Johns Hopkins student-built devices win two top awards in national contest

Johns Hopkins student-built devices win two top awards in national contest

Johns Hopkins student-built devices—a blood clot detection system and a concealable, hands-free breast pump—have won two of the top three awards in a national…

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Young VC firm Cultivation Capital jumps right into early stage life sciences funding with $30M | MedCity News

Young VC firm Cultivation Capital jumps right into early stage life sciences funding with $30M | MedCity News

The emerging tech town of St. Louis has also become fertile ground for a community of life sciences companies that are ready to bloom…

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3-V Biosciences Completes $20 Million Series C Financing – PR Newswire – The Sacramento Bee

3-V Biosciences Completes $20 Million Series C Financing – PR Newswire – The Sacramento Bee

3-V Biosciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics that modulate key pathways in oncology and infectious disease, today announced the completion of a Series…

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GlaxoSmithKline invests EUR17.5m in French venture for rare diseases – Pharmaceutical Business Review

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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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