BioHealth News Archive
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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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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