BioHealth News Archive

Digital Health Nabbed $1.4B in Venture Funds Last Year, Report Finds – iHealthBeat

Digital Health Nabbed $1.4B in Venture Funds Last Year, Report Finds – iHealthBeat

Venture capitalists invested $1.4 billion in digital health companies in 2012, according to a report from Rock Health, FierceHealthIT reports (Gold, FierceHealthIT, 1/8). The…

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Tech Council of Maryland calls for R&D, biotech tax credit boost – Washington Business Journal

Tech Council of Maryland calls for R&D, biotech tax credit boost – Washington Business Journal

The Tech Council of Maryland called on legislators Monday to triple the funding for the state's research and development tax credit and double the…

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UMBC Life Sciences Startup Launching First Product

UMBC Life Sciences Startup Launching First Product

Life sciences company Plasmonix will begin selling its first product, QuantArray, early this year. The Baltimore County startup plans to commercialize two other products later…

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QIAGEN adds to pipeline of personalized healthcare diagnostics through agreements for promising new biomarkers

QIAGEN adds to pipeline of personalized healthcare diagnostics through agreements for promising new biomarkers

QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced three separate agreements that add multiple biomarkers to QIAGEN's deep development pipeline of diagnostics…

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Maryland Tedco restructures grant programs – Baltimore Business Journal

Maryland Tedco restructures grant programs – Baltimore Business Journal

The Maryland Technology Development Corp. (Tedco) is restructuring some of its grant programs and taking on oversight responsibilities for others. The changes are in…

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New Enterprise Associates raises most among VC firms in 2012 – Baltimore Business Journal

New Enterprise Associates raises most among VC firms in 2012 – Baltimore Business Journal

New Enterprise Associates raised the most money of any venture capital firm in 2012. New Enterprise, headquartered in Chevy Chase and has a Timonium…

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MacroGenics could get $1B payday – Washington Business Journal

MacroGenics could get $1B payday – Washington Business Journal

Rockville-based MacroGenics Inc. has struck a drug development deal with Gilead Sciences Inc. that could ultimately be worth $1 billion. The licensing agreement is…

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HHS Announces $1.9M for Six New Telehealth Resource Centers – iHealthBeat

HHS Announces $1.9M for Six New Telehealth Resource Centers – iHealthBeat

HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration has announced plans to distribute $1.9 million for the creation of six telehealth resource centers, mHIMSS reports (Wicklund, mHIMSS,…

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USM looking for a new Director for the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research

USM looking for a new Director for the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research

IBBR (www.ibbr.umd.edu) is a joint research institute, which brings together partner institutions including the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP); University of Maryland, Baltimore…

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GSK ranked first among global pharmaceuticals

GSK ranked first among global pharmaceuticals

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been ranked first among global pharmaceuticals companies assessed for their efforts to improve access to medicine in developing countries, in the…

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Small Business Administration Final SBIR Rules

Small Business Administration Final SBIR Rules

On December 27, 2012, the US Small Business Administration (SBA) published a final rule to amend regulations governing eligibility for the Small Business Innovation…

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Freeman A. Hrabowski III, UMBC president, joins T. Rowe Price board – baltimoresun.com

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, UMBC president, joins T. Rowe Price board – baltimoresun.com

Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has joined the board of T. Rowe Price Group as an independent…

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Man meets machine at Johns Hopkins – Healthcare IT News

Man meets machine at Johns Hopkins – Healthcare IT News

"Disease is too complex to just think your way through it," says Raimond Winslow, director of The Institute for Computational Medicine at Johns Hopkins.…

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Emergent Biosolutions (EBS) Acquires Commercial Rights To Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Candidate – iStockAnalyst.com

Emergent Biosolutions (EBS) Acquires Commercial Rights To Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Candidate – iStockAnalyst.com

Emergent Biosolutions Inc. said it has secured exclusive right to manufacture and sell VaxInnate Corp.'s pandemic influenza vaccine candidate in the United States. Under a…

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Commentary: How Maryland can pull a tech trifecta in 2013 – The Washington Post

Commentary: How Maryland can pull a tech trifecta in 2013 – The Washington Post

Maryland policymakers have taken encouraging steps the past two years to strengthen the state’s technology and life sciences economy. Two years ago, they expanded…

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