BioHealth News Archive
The Promise — and Perils — of Personalized Medicine
Personalized medicine -- the ability to tailor therapies to patients' individual genetic characteristics -- has long been the holy grail of the life sciences…
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University of Maryland ranks in top 100 globally – Washington Business Journal
The University of Maryland, College Park has cracked the top 100 global reputation ranking by a publication based in the United Kingdom, The Washington…
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Nanomedicines Alliance Industry Symposium
NANOMEDICINES: CHARTING A ROADMAP TO COMMERCIALIZATION On 6-7 March 2013, the Nanomedicines Alliance will be holding a Industry Symposium: Charting a Road to Commercialization. The…
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Six HIT heavy-hitters announce interoperability organization | Healthcare IT News
Big news was made at HIMSS13 on Monday when, in an unprecedented collaboration, some health IT heavy-hitters joined forces in an effort to push…
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University Startups Conference 2013: Registration
NOW IN ITS 7th YEAR! University Startups Showcase and Conference 2013 March 20-22, 2013 Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C. "Corporate Venture Capital and University…
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SR One Steady Amid Health-Care Slump – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ
Venture investment in health care cratered in 2012. While others cut back, SR One charged ahead. The venture arm of GlaxoSmithKline formed in 1985…
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Tech Council of Maryland to Honor Dr. James Barrett of New Enterprise Associates With Lifetime Achievement Award – WSJ.com
The Tech Council of Maryland (TCM), Maryland's largest technology trade association with more than 400 life science and technology members employing more than 200,000…
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AHA expands venture philanthropy accelerator strategy to help life science startups navigate valley of death – MedCity News
A little more than a year ago the American Heart Association launched an accelerator to fund biotechnolgy and medical device startups to fill a…
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InvestMaryland Challenge down 33 semifinalists – Baltimore Business Journal
The InvestMaryland Challenge has whittled down the 259 start-up companies that applied to the business competition to 33 semifinalists. Only nine of those companies…
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Kala Pharma, From MIT & Johns Hopkins, Grabs $11.5M for Eye Drugs – Xconomy
If you need an effective drug today for age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, you need to get an…
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NHLBI Funding and Research Opportunity Announcements, February
The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of interest: NIH Guide Notice:…
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Turkish Delegation Visits Maryland
In 2009, President Barack Obama selected the Republic of Turkey as a pivotal port of call in his first trip abroad as the new…
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BiotechBlog | Drug Patent Expirations by Year – BiotechBlog
This live infographic dynamically shows the number of pending patent expirations by year for the next ten years. For more infographics, see the DrugPatentWatch…
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Roche follows GSK in move to unlock its data vault on drugs – FierceBiotech
GlaxoSmithKline encountered some stiff industry headwinds when it pledged to open up its data vault to outside investigators. But as of today it has…
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Government Contracting’s “Perfect Storm” is Brewing – Aronson Fed Point
Government contractors across the U.S. have found themselves in a holding pattern over the past few years, adapting to constant delays and waiting for…
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