BioHealth News Archive
What are pharmaceutical companies looking for in a licensing deal? – MedCity News
Big pharmaceutical companies strike licensing deals with small companies in hopes of finding new, highly profitable medicine without the cost of buying a whole…
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Dr. Lawrence Mahan, PhD Named New Director of OTAC
The NHLBI Division of Extramural Research Activities (DERA) is pleased to announce the addition of Dr Lawrence Mahan, as the Director of the Office…
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Johnson & Johnson’s New Innovation Center Part of Broader Initiative | Xconomy
Investing in biotechnology is a riskier bet these days. The community of life sciences venture capital firms is contracting, despite scientific advances across many…
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NHLBI Funding and Research Opportunity Announcements
The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of interest: NIH Guide Notices:…
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Harvard Researchers Find that 83% of Radiologists Fail to See Gorilla in the Midst—of a Lung Scan! | Dark Daily
Pathologists and clinical laboratory professionals who regularly analyze images will be interested in the findings of a research study designed to assess how the…
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UM Ventures and SilcsBio, LLC Announce Licensing Agreement | Reuters
University of Maryland (UM) Ventures and SilcsBio, LLC announced today that SilcsBio has obtained exclusive rights to a technology licensed from the University of…
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Crowdfunding in healthcare isn’t easy – Health Tech Hatch turns to Indiegogo to make it work — Tech News and Analysis
Health Tech Hatch, a site launched last fall as a crowdfunding site specifically for health startups, is joining forces with one of the biggest…
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San Diego Life Sciences Incubator Janssen Labs Expands to the Bay Area | San Diego Business Journal
Through collaboration between Johnson & Johnson Innovation and the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), Janssen will create a 5,000-square-foot lab space within QB3’s…
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GlycoMimetics CEO Rachel King named Maryland Life Sciences Advisory Board Chair – MDBIZNews
Governor Martin O’Malley today announced that Rachel King, co-founder and CEO of GlycoMimetics in Gaithersburg, has been named chair of the Maryland Life Sciences…
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Surgeons at Duke University Hospital Implant Bioengineered Vein – DukeHealth.org
In a first-of-its-kind operation in the United States, a team of doctors at Duke University Hospital helped create a bioengineered blood vessel and transplanted…
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SBIR Reauthorization Moves Forward | BIOtechNow
NIH has reissued its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Omnibus Grant Solicitation announcement, which states that small businesses that are majority-owned by multiple venture…
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Telehealth sees explosive growth | Healthcare IT News
Healthcare providers are taking telemedicine to new heights, with the market seeing growth of a whopping 237 percent within a five-year period, according to…
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Google Ventures partner: Bring on the pitches for HIT and Google Glass for healthcare | MedCity News
More than 60 companies showed off their health data applications at Datapalooza IV this week and Krishna Yeshwant, a partner at Google Ventures, was…
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Rock Health version 5 features Google Glass for doctors, tremor cancelation technology | MedCity News
San Francisco digital health accelerator Rock Health is kicking off its fifth program next week, and it has some unique startups in the mix.…
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18th CBA Annual Conference | Chinese Biopharmaceutical Association, USA
The Chinese Biopharmaceutical Association, USA (CBA) will host the 18th Annual Conference at the University of Maryland Shady Grove Conference Center on Saturday, June…
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