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Startup Maryland Starts Raise Your Game initiative

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

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

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

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

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 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

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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Sen. Ben Cardin to host Bio-Tech Jobs Roundtable April 8th

Sen. Ben Cardin to host Bio-Tech Jobs Roundtable April 8th

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Join us on March 20 at Growlers for another BioBuzz Happy Hour

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

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 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

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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Johns Hopkins researchers use fat to fight brain cancer

Johns Hopkins researchers use fat to fight brain cancer

In laboratory studies, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have found that stem cells from a patient’s own fat may have the potential to deliver…

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Top of the List: Venture capital firms investing in Maryland – Baltimore Business Journal

Top of the List: Venture capital firms investing in Maryland – Baltimore Business Journal

Every week we give you a countdown of the top five to 10 companies or organizations from one of our Lists publishing in our…

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Turkish delegation taps Maryland for biotech inspiration – MDBIZNews

Turkish delegation taps Maryland for biotech inspiration – MDBIZNews

Known for its ancient castles and seaside mosques, the Turkish city of Trabzon is looking to raise its profile on a new  front—biotechnology. For…

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