BioHealth News Archive
Life sciences boosted by new £50m venture capital fund – BBC News
A £50m venture capital fund focusing on early-stage life science and health technology companies has been launched in Scotland. Rock Spring Ventures said it…
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Johns Hopkins awarded $3.5M for robot research project – BmoreMedia
Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering is collaborating with universities around the country on a project to create robots that work more efficiently with…
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Acceleprise welcomes first of three classes for ’13 – The Washington Post
District-based Acceleprise, a business accelerator program for companies that sell technology or services to other companies or organizations, is expanding in an effort to serve…
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Forget double helix. ‘Quadruple helix’ DNA discovered in human cells | ScienceBlog.com
In 1953, Cambridge researchers Watson and Crick published a paper describing the interweaving ‘double helix’ DNA structure – the chemical code for all life.…
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ETC Announces AccelerateBaltimore™ Winning Companies
Baltimore City’s technology incubator, ETC (Emerging Technology Center), announced today that six companies have been selected to participate in the 2013 AccelerateBaltimore™ program –a…
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Washington region raises an abysmal $95 million in Q4 venture funding – Washington Business Journal
Companies in Maryland, Virginia and D.C. raised a paltry $94.9 million in venture funding in the last three months of 2012, according to the…
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Emergent BioSolutions, Inc., signs license agreement for flu vaccine production – Vaccine News Daily
Emergent BioSolutions, Inc., recently signed a license agreement for the manufacture and sale of VaxInnate Corporation’s recombinant influenza vaccine. The deal is considered to…
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New Enterprise Associates tops list of most active VCs – Washington Business Journal
Bicoastal venture titan New Enterprise Associates ranked as the most active VC firm in the country last year, according to investment research firm CB…
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Maryland budget reflects improving economy – baltimoresun.com
Gov. Martin O'Malley released a $37 billion spending plan Wednesday that for the first time in recent years contains no drastic cuts or proposed…
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Blueprint Health’s new class shows there are still plenty of new ideas in the digital health pipeline – MedCity News
Another day, another class of digital health startups. That’s how it feels sometimes, with so many accelerators working with dozens of new companies each…
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GSK seeks FDA approval for new GLP-1 agonist
British healthcare firm GlaxoSmithKline has filed for US regulatory approval of its new type 2 diabetes drug albiglutide, which belongs to the same group…
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Peter Greenleaf steps down as MedImmune president, Bahija Jallal chosen as replacement – Capital Business Blog – The Washington Post
Peter Greenleaf is stepping down down as president of Gaithersburg-based biotechnology giant MedImmune, according to a company spokesman, to take the helm of parent…
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Bahija Jallal to replace Peter Greenleaf as head of MedImmune – Baltimore Business Journal
MedImmune executive Bahija Jallal will be the new chief of the Gaithersburg biotech under a leadership shuffle by parent company AstraZeneca, a spokesman confirmed…
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Medical device is “sector darling” when it comes to healthcare VC deals in fourth quarter – MedCity News
There might be a lot of griping about how tight the venture capital world is when it comes to funding medical devices, but reality…
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At J.P. Morgan Conference, VCs Upbeat on Medical Devices – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ
The buzz around biotechnology investing that could be felt this year at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference could reach the beleaguered medical-device sector as…
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