BioHealth News Archive
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…
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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…
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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…
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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-…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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NEA Scores Two IPOs in a Week – peHub
It’s tough to move the needle on a multi-billion-dollar venture fund. That’s one reason New Enterprise Associates, which has managed mega-funds about as long…
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QIAGEN and China’s BioBAY open translational medicine center to accelerate creation of novel companion diagnostics
QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) and SIP Biotech Development Co., Ltd. (BioBAY) today announced the opening of QIAGEN (Suzhou) Translational Medicine…
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NHLBI Funding and Research Opportunity Announcements – May
The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of interest: NIH Guide Notice:…
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In-vivo Methods for Assessing Placental Development and Function (SBIR)
Purpose The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and participating Institutes invite grant applications for research on the development…
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BARDA Partners with GSK for Hospital and Biothreat Antibacterials | Global Biodefense
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has entered into a collaborative agreement with Glaxo Smith Kline…
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Success In mHealth: Shifting Focus From The ‘m’ To The ‘Health’ – Forbes
Poor maternal, infant, and child health as well as inadequate coverage of family planning remain significant global health problems facing low- and middle-income countries…
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AstraZeneca picks BioMed Campus for HQ – Business Weekly
Medical technology pioneer AstraZeneca has chosen the Cambridge Biomedical Campus at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital site in Cambridge UK for its new global headquarters. It…
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