BioHealth News Archive
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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Finding subjects for clinical trials can pose challenges for drug makers – Gazette.Net
Psyadon Pharmaceuticals has spent nine months working to enroll the 18 patients it needs for its phase 3 clinical trial involving its treatment for…
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Biotech CEOs: Personalized medicine has lots of promise but not enough funding – MedCity News
Leaders of several Richmond-area biotechnology-related companies said Thursday that they foresee personalized medicine as a major force driving the industry's growth, but access to…
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National Science Foundation Scales Up Entrepreneurship Program – Xconomy
The National Science Foundation said today that it will fund a major expansion of its Innovation Corps program, an effort to teach NSF-funded university researchers…
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Rock Health startups whipping health care industry into shape – VentureBeat
The health care industry is undergoing major surgery. At the center of these operations is Rock Health, a startup accelerator dedicated to the intersection…
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Meet the 14 New Rock Health Startups Innovating in Digital Health – Xconomy
San Francisco’s Rock Health startup accelerator held its fourth semi-annual Demo Day at UCSF’s Genentech Hall Wednesday afternoon. Investors and journalists heard pitches from…
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The Breakthrough Prize In Life Sciences – Business Insider
Some of Silicon Valley's most prominent billionaires are making a big push to guide the tech world's entrepreneurs into biotech. Backing the Breakthrough Prize…
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UMD Program Awards $4.7 Million to Maryland University Researchers to Help 16 Local Companies Develop Technology Products – MarketWatch
The University of Maryland's Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program today announces it is awarding $4.7 million to Maryland university researchers to help 16 local…
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Startup Professionals Musings: 10 Ways for Startups to Survive the Valley of Death
The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the…
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