BioHealth News Archive
Johns Hopkins announces $4.5B fundraising goal – WSJ.com
Johns Hopkins says it is working on its largest-ever fundraising campaign, which aims to raise $4.5 billion by the end of 2017. The university…
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Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards Program – 2013 Maryland finalists
The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2013 finalists have a lot to celebrate. They've built their dream companies. Expanded. Innovated. And now…
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Capital Royalty’s $805M fund could be a source of alternative funding for life science companies – MedCity News
Somewhere between venture funding and bank loans is a kind of investment that seems to fly under the radar, but apparently over the last…
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John Trizzino wins Best Biotech CEO at the 2013 ViE Awards
Late last week, leaders from across the global vaccine industry gathered at the 6th Annual Vaccine Industry Excellence (ViE) awards ceremony during the World…
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Inaugural UMD Business Model Challenge Winners Announced – WSJ.com
The Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) today announces the winners of the inaugural University of Maryland Business Model Challenge. The two winning UMD entrepreneur…
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Biotech Venture Funding Down 33% in First Quarter – Patent Docs
Earlier this month, the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a trade association representing the U.S. venture capital industry, released the results of its MoneyTree…
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Business Opportunities Summit Tech3 – Save-the-Date
Cyber - Health - Mobile Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:00am – 1:00pm —UMBC Join us as we bring together top leaders and innovators in…
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Startup Maryland Announces 2013 Dates for Pitch Bus Tour
Startup Maryland today announced dates (September 9 – 27) and the rough route for the Pitch Across Maryland 2.0, the second annual state-wide tour…
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Johns Hopkins and Barclays to Develop Youth Entrepreneurship Program to Benefit American Indians – WSJ.com
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has partnered with Barclays Bank to develop a youth entrepreneurship program with the Bloomberg School's Center…
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Entrepreneurs say the FDA is killing medical innovation – VentureBeat
Chandra Duggirala, maker of an experimental device for type two diabetes, is on the verge of giving up. Duggirala’s company, Novobionics, raised a small amount of funding…
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Qiagen Buys Ingenuity Systems, Biology Software Player, for $105M – Xconomy
Ingenuity Systems, a 15-year veteran of the biological software business, showed today that you can make money not just by generating DNA data, but…
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President Barack Obama visits National Academy of Sciences to tout government research – The Business Journals
President Barack Obama dropped in on the National Academy of Sciences today to help it celebrate its 150th birthday. The president said he's committed…
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Robert Lieberman: Johns Hopkins names Columbia University administrator as provost – Baltimore Business Journal
A Columbia University administrator is taking over a top post at Johns Hopkins University. Robert C. Lieberman will take on the role of provost…
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MedImmune chief taps top prospects, hunts new biologics deals – FierceBiotech
Last year AstraZeneca's ($AZN) MedImmune did about 20 biologics deals, not counting the academic pacts it assembled. This year, MedImmune R&D chief Bahija Jallal…
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Google Ventures is betting its money on these 8 healthcare and life sci companies – MedCity News
Google Ventures has been backing startups through its venture capital fund since 2009 and offers a pretty diverse range of services to entrepreneurs. Here’s…
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