BioHealth News Archive
Baltimore among best cities for recent college grads – Baltimore Business Journal
Baltimore ranks No. 4 on a new NerdWallet list of the best cities for recent college grads to live in. The report from the…
Read More
You’ve Only Got 8 Minutes With the Doctor So Talk Fast | Care2 Causes
Eight minutes: this is approximately (1) how long it takes sunlight to reach the earth; (2) how long it takes to hard-boil an egg (if…
Read More
Computers vs. patients: A day in the life of a modern intern – Health & wellness – The Boston Globe
If you’re a medical intern, most of what you need to do your job can be pulled off a computer screen: Blood test results.…
Read More
The Biotech IPO Scorecard: Who’s Up, Who’s Down in 2013 | Xconomy
Remember Plexxikon? The Berkeley, CA-based company had a lot of talent for structural biology-based drug design, an impressive new treatment for melanoma, and a…
Read More
Qiagen Acquires New Cancer Biomarkers Through Licensing Agreements | IVD Technology
Through new agreements with the Canadian BC Cancer Agency and Columbia University, the company now has access to biomarkers for lymphoma, glioblastoma, and several other…
Read More
QIAGEN expands pipeline of promising new biomarkers for development of Personalized Healthcare companion diagnostics
QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced two agreements adding promising new biomarkers involving glioblastoma, lymphoma and other cancers to QIAGEN's…
Read More
Gates Foundation launches $100M partnership with 5 Japanese pharma companies – MedCity News
Five top Japanese drug companies are to open their "libraries" of experimental compounds to scrutiny by scientists hunting new treatments for malaria, tuberculosis and…
Read More
GlaxoSmithKline and Theravance get FDA Clearance for Lung Disease Drug
By Eve Green Partner companies Theravance and the GlaxoSmithKline have received Food and Drug Administration clearance for their new drug for the treatment of COPD, Breo…
Read More
Park, Sebelius Tout Federal Initiatives’ Effect on Health IT – iHealthBeat
This week, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius posted separate entries on the White House Blog touting the effect…
Read More
Washington, Baltimore collaborate on regional cyber job growth – Washington Business Journal
The Greater Washington Board of Trade is forming a joint task force with the Greater Baltimore Committee and the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore…
Read More
New ‘Out of This World’ Space Stethoscope Valuable Here on Earth, Too – The Johns Hopkins University
A team of students at the Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering has designed for NASA a new stethoscope that delivers accurate heart-…
Read More
React Labs Awarded $100K in Maryland Innovation Initiative Funding – Baltimore Business Journal
React Labs, an early stage company commercializing a comprehensive mobile technology platform for real-time polling, has been awarded $100,000 in funding from the Maryland…
Read More
Cybersecurity Master’s at UMBC Shady Grove – Virtual Info Session Held June 19 – Press Release – Digital Journal
Maryland was recently named the top state in the nation for entrepreneurship and innovation. The state has the second highest concentration of STEM employment…
Read More
GenVec Inc. board votes to dissolve company – Washington Business Journal
The board of GenVec Inc. has voted to liquidate and dissolve the struggling Gaithersburg biotech, it announced Tuesday in a securities filing. The move…
Read More
Aspiring Giants: How Emerging Life Science and Biotech Companies Can Grow to $1 Billion and Beyond
Please join us for an exclusive, invitation-only event to be held in conjunction with PwC and the Technology Council of Maryland. This event has…
Read More