BioHealth News Archive
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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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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