BioHealth News Archive
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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Angel groups are investing more but making the money harder to get – MedCity News
As groups of high-net-worth individuals continue to band together in the form of angel investment networks and funds, they’re creating new opportunities for funding…
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Money Map: Find a venture capital firm to fund your healthcare startup – MedCity News
Hard to understand, slow to exit and more than enough risk to go around. Not many investors are brave and smart enough to fund…
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Success with an angel syndicate: How one pharma startup raised $16M without VCs | MedCity News
Savara Pharmaceuticals needed several million dollars to take its inhalable drug for troublesome infections in cystic fibrosis patients through Phase 2 clinical trials. So…
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What does the future of medical education look like? These 5 medical schools offer some clues – MedCity News
Medical schools have been preparing for the changes health care reform is bringing. Many have framed their education around iPads and other tablets and…
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