BioHealth News Archive

Five things about venture we learned from MoneyTree – Washington Business Journal

Five things about venture we learned from MoneyTree – Washington Business Journal

The Washington region raised some $286 million in venture funding last quarter, assuming you stretch your idea of the region to include Stevensville, Md.,…

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Maryland venture capital funding up 20% in first quarter – Baltimore Business Journal

Maryland venture capital funding up 20% in first quarter – Baltimore Business Journal

Twelve Maryland companies, including five from the Baltimore area, received a total of $83.8 million in venture capital funding in the first quarter. That…

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SBA chief highlights entrepreneurship programs during Baltimore visit – Baltimore Business Journal

SBA chief highlights entrepreneurship programs during Baltimore visit – Baltimore Business Journal

U.S. Small Business Administration chief Karen Mills was in Baltimore on Thursday to highlight the agency’s education program for entrepreneurs. Baltimore was one of the…

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D.C. region raised $286 million in first quarter. Sort of. – Washington Business Journal

D.C. region raised $286 million in first quarter. Sort of. – Washington Business Journal

The Washington region raised a collective $286 million in venture capital during the first three months of 2013, thanks in large part to a…

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Small Market Awards: SBIR Phase IIB Competing Renewals for Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Technologies with Small Commercial Markets

Small Market Awards: SBIR Phase IIB Competing Renewals for Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Technologies with Small Commercial Markets

The purpose of the NHLBI SBIR Phase IIB Small Market Award is to provide support to Phase II SBIR awardees developing NHLBI mission-related technologies…

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Why digital health is no ‘bubble’ – VentureBeat

Why digital health is no ‘bubble’ – VentureBeat

There’s been discussion recently about a lack of life science venture capital enthusiasm for emerging digital health companies. I happen to feel that this…

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Contemporary Social Issues Seminar Series – The Universities at Shady Grove

Contemporary Social Issues Seminar Series – The Universities at Shady Grove

The Universities at Shady Grove (USG) and the Rockville Institute come together annually to offer this dynamic, interactive seminar series. The series stimulates an…

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Companies announce new cybersecurity pact – Gazette.Net

Companies announce new cybersecurity pact – Gazette.Net

Leaders of 11 top high-tech companies — including Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. — signed a partnership agreement Monday with a fairly new Rockville-based…

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National entrepreneurship program debuts in Baltimore – bmoremedia.com

New York City nonprofit Venture for America, which provides entrepreneurship training for recent college graduates, is adding Baltimore to its roster of cities this…

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Remedium Technologies Inc. Awarded $500,000 Phase II NSF SBIR Grant to Test Sprayable Foam for Stopping Traumatic Bleeding – WSJ.com

Remedium Technologies Inc. Awarded $500,000 Phase II NSF SBIR Grant to Test Sprayable Foam for Stopping Traumatic Bleeding – WSJ.com

Remedium Technologies Inc., a medical device company developing innovative products to control severe hemorrhaging, was awarded a $500,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant…

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Remote monitoring market growing fast – Healthcare IT News

Remote monitoring market growing fast – Healthcare IT News

The U.S. market for remote patient monitoring, valued at $104.5 million in 2012, is forecasted to reach $296.5 million by 2019, a compound annual…

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Health IT VC funding sees ‘torrid’ Q1 – Healthcare IT News

Health IT VC funding sees ‘torrid’ Q1 – Healthcare IT News

With nearly half a billion dollars raised in venture capital funding for health information technology, the first three months of 2013 represented a "record…

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Three new companies join UMBC cybersecurity incubator – bmoremedia.com

Three new companies join UMBC cybersecurity incubator – bmoremedia.com

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Northrop Grumman Corp. last month expanded their Cync cybersecurity  program with three new companies, including the program’s first…

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Two Baltimore startups among InvestMaryland Challenge winners – Baltimore Business Journal

Two Baltimore startups among InvestMaryland Challenge winners – Baltimore Business Journal

Two Baltimore companies took top honors in the state’s first InvestMaryland Challenge. GrayBug, which is developing drug delivery technology; and RedOwl Analytics, a software…

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The Human Genome Project, Then and Now – NYTimes.com

The Human Genome Project, Then and Now – NYTimes.com

Eight years of work, thousands of researchers around the world, $1 billion spent — and finally it was done. On April 14, 2003, a…

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