BioHealth News Archive
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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Don’t worry about Baltimore’s patent drought – baltimoresun.com
Life sciences research is a strong economic driver, even if it leads to few patents As the economy continues to flounder, many cities are…
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Montgomery County looks to get hip – The Washington Post
Montgomery officials are under no illusions about the county’s image among the Washington region’s young: boring. “We’re a little sleepy,” said County Council member…
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Johns Hopkins Wins Massive $2.3 Billion Pentagon Contract
On Friday, the Department of Defense announced that it has awarded The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory a five-year, sole source, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity…
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2013 Rice Business Plan Competition – iStart.org
The Rice University Business Plan Competition is the world’s richest and largest graduate-level business plan competition. It is hosted and organized by the Rice…
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