BioHealth News Archive
Biotech VCs Aren’t Lemmings Anymore. They’re Lone Rangers – Xconomy
A certain song has been running through my head the past few days. Lately, it strikes me as an anthem of sorts for biotech…
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Third Rock Stocks Up With $516M New Fund, Looks to Start 16 Cos – Xconomy
Third Rock Ventures has spent the last six years betting big on early stage biotech investing when most other VC firms have been hunkering…
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Genomics research supplier rounds up $21.3 million from China-focused investors – MedCity News
In a demonstration of the booming field of genomic research, investors have pumped $21.3 million into a company that makes and manufactures genome-wide research…
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Startup Maryland Starts Raise Your Game initiative
Startup Maryland (www.startupmd.org), a regional initiative of the national Startup America Partnership (www.s.co), today announced the Raise Your Game initiative to provide the Maryland…
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Tech Council chairman: IT industry not in danger, but pay dropping – Gazette.Net
The outsourcing of information technology jobs being seen at Bethesda hotel giant Marriott International is not likely a harbinger of more to come, technology…
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DC Based Government Contractor to Launch New Startup Accelerator
Sequoia Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of software development solutions to the U.S. Intelligence Community, is teaming up with Washington DC area private equity…
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Smart growth key to Montgomery County’s future – WashingtonExaminer.com
Montgomery County is implementing a Smart Growth Initiative to build on the area's strengths in biotechnology and health care in a way that will…
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Anthrax Vaccine Testing On Kids: Critics Fight Panel Approval; What Are The Risks? – Medical Daily
In a move sure to inflame the libertarian blogosphere, a presidential ethics commission recommended today that researchers study the effects of anthrax vaccine on…
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Montgomery County to market itself with video on land, in the air – Washington Business Journal
Montgomery County has a plan to market itself as a business and tourist destination to a particularly captive audience — one traveling at 30,000…
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Pfizer inks $340M rare disease pact with GlycoMimetics – FierceBiotech
Demonstrating its deep interest in the future of rare diseases, Pfizer ($PFE) has signed on to partner with Gaithersburg, MD-based GlycoMimetics on its lead…
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Join us on March 20 at Growlers for another BioBuzz Happy Hour
Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 04:30pm - 07:30pm Join us on March 20 at Growlers for another BioBuzz Happy Hour Join our sponsors, BioHealth Innovation,…
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Lockheed Martin to Continue Providing Life Sciences Support to NASA – SpaceRef
As part of the Wyle-led team, Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been selected by NASA's Johnson Space Center to provide biomedical, medical and health…
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MedImmune to gain 300 new jobs under AstraZeneca shift – Washington Business Journal
MedImmune's Gaithersburg headquarters will gain 300 new jobs under a broader U.S. consolidation by parent company AstraZeneca PLC, the companies announced Monday. The move…
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Biotech incubator InCube approaches $30 million mark in investor funding – San Antonio Business Journal
Roughly three years after announcing that he was expanding his California bioscience incubator to San Antonio, InCube Labs founder Mir Imran may wish he…
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