BioHealth News Archive
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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Three Johns Hopkins Researchers Recognized For Medical Inventions
Johns Hopkins’ John Wong, Ph.D., has won a BioMaryland LIFE Award, and Ronald Berger, M.D., Ph.D., and Hien Nguyen, M.D., were awarded funds from…
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Shirtliff Captures Top Tech Prize for Staph Vaccine, Diagnostics Technology – UM News
New technology from the University of Maryland (UM) could potentially provide a five-minute diagnostic test and a vaccine for tough-to-treat Staphylococcus aureus infections, including…
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Tech Council of Maryland to Honor Dr. James Barrett of New Enterprise Associates With Lifetime Achievement Award – Reuters
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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University of Maryland seeks to create innovation hub – Baltimore Business Journal
University of Maryland, College Park and two other East Coast schools will share $3.75 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a regional…
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SAIC picks name for spinoff company: Leidos – Washington Business Journal
McLean-based Science Applications International Corp., which announced plans in August to split off part of its operations into a separate publicly traded company, has…
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Which Drugs Have the Most Patents? – BiotechBlog
This chart shows the pharmaceutical drugs with the most patents still in force. The drugs with the most active patents are COMBIVENT RESPIMAT, KALETRA, ADVAIR HFA,FLOVENT HFA, VIVITROL, THALOMID, VYVANSE, REVLIMID, VENTOLIN…
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Call for Presentations – AURP 2013 International Conference
The Association of University Research Parks (AURP), the world’s leading network of university research, science and technology park professionals, invites you to share your…
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NIH rare disease event to raise awareness, encourage research collaborations, February 25, 2013 News Release – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Rare Disease Day, held each year on February 28, was established to raise awareness about the estimated 7,000 rare diseases that affect about 25…
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Johns Hopkins APL Wins Potential $5B R&D IDIQ
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has won a potential 10-year, $4,904,853,263 U.S. Navy for research, development and engineering work throughout the Defense Department. The…
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