BioHealth News Archive
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
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
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
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
Leaders of 11 top high-tech companies — including Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. — signed a partnership agreement Monday with a fairly new Rockville-based…
Read MoreNational 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., 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
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
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
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 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
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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Strategies for Navigating the Life Sciences Capital Crunch – Xconomy
The need for innovation in healthcare has arguably never been greater. A range of factors, from aging world populations to rising standards of living…
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New Enterprise Associates Joins $10M Series A for Cleave Biosciences – Baltimore Citybizlist
Cleave Biosciences has added $10 million in Series A financing from new investor New Enterprise Associates, bringing its Series A total to $54 million. In the fall of…
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Sen. Mikulski to participate in National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence partners signing – CyberMaryland
Maryland U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski plans to participate in a signing ceremony at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for new private sector…
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