BioHealth News Archive
GlaxoSmithKline awarded up to $200 million by U.S. government to develop new antibiotics | 2013 | Press releases | Media | GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plc and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), have…
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Entrepreneur Of The Year® Awards Ceremony – Ernst & Young LLP
Our world needs entrepreneurs Their ability to innovate, to inspire others, to power a business along the difficult journey from start-up to market leader…
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Should I Join an Accelerator? – Business Insider
Today is Demo Day for Techstars Boston. I love Techstars Demo Days for many reasons, not the least of which is the amazing community…
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Debunking Myths About Biotech Venture Capital – Forbes
There are lots of myths about venture capital and biotech in particular, as noted previously on this blog. Many of these myths are deeply…
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Glaxo to Get Up to $200 Million From U.S. for Biothreat Research – Businessweek
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK), the U.K.’s largest drugmaker, will work with the U.S. government to develop antibiotics for resistant infections and bioterrorist threats in an…
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GSK creates competition for academic researchers – Philadelphia Business Journal
GlaxoSmithKline has created a contest for academic researchers that it hopes will accelerate the speed by which academic research can be turned into novel…
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Request for Comment on Proposed Methods for Avoiding Duplication, Redundancy and Competition With Industry Activities
The Public Health Service Act indicates that the purpose of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is to advance translational sciences by…
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For startups, health care reform is a huge opportunity, HHS tech guy says | VentureBeat
The Affordable Care Act, aka health care reform, aka Obamacare, is spurring a massive creation of new business opportunities. So says Bryan Sivak, the…
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Q&A with Tech Council of Maryland’s new chairman – Baltimore Business Journal
Doug Doerfler, CEO of Gaithersburg-based MaxCyte Inc., was this month named the Tech Council of Maryland's new chairman. He steps into the position with…
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Health IT adoption doubles from 2012 | Healthcare IT News
More than half of all eligible providers nationwide have received federal incentive payments for demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health records, rates that have…
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StartRight! Women’s Business Plan Competition by the Maryland Women’s Business Center
The StartRight! Women's Business Plan Competition was founded in 2003 by Rockville Economic Development Inc. (REDI) to encourage and support women’s entrepreneurship. Currently in…
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NY Digital Health Accelerator Is a Model to Emulate: Startup’s Perspective – Forbes
Zina Moukheiber said the New York Digital Health Accelerator Is a Model to Emulate at the beginning of the program. With the proliferation of accelerators, I…
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N. Va. biotech has always been weak. How that could change. – Washington Business Journal
Biotech has never quite taken flight in Northern Virginia. Whether that's due to the lack of a big corporate anchor or blue-chip research university,…
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U.S. Entrepreneurship Rates Reach Highest Level In More Than A Decade – Babson College
Optimistic and confident in their abilities, a diverse and growing percentage of U.S. citizens engage in entrepreneurship, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM).…
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United Therapeutics spoofs ‘Goodnight Moon’ in annual report – Washington Business Journal
The threshold for reporting on marketing stunts is a high one, and United Therapeutics Corp. has just cleared it. Reaching us by mail today…
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