BioHealth News Archive
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
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
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, 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
"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 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
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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Microscopic Battlefield: Watch as a Killer T Cell Attacks a Cancer Cell – Open Culture
Every day, inside our body, there is a war going on. Microscopic invaders of one kind or another try to make a meal of…
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Emergent BioSolutions Secures Exclusive U.S. Commercial Rights to Next Generation Pandemic Influenza – DailyFinance
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYS: EBS) announced today that it has signed a license agreement with VaxInnate Corporation under which Emergent acquired the exclusive right…
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SBIR changes taking effect in January – BioCentury.com
The U.S. Small Business Association (SBA) published a final rule on Thursday that will implement changes to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program,…
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Johns Hopkins receives funding for cholera vaccine initiative
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was awarded a four-year, $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to promote…
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CytImmune and AstraZeneca to Research Potential New Nanomedicine – FierceBiotech
CytImmune and AstraZeneca have entered into an agreement to study the feasibility of a new cancer nanomedicine that will bind an oncology compound from…
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AstraZeneca’s Waltham unit aims to use gold nanoparticles to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors – The Boston Globe
The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is expected to announce this week that its oncology unit in Waltham is collaborating with a Maryland company to develop…
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New Atlantic Ventures launches new VC fund – Washington Business Journal
Reston-based New Atlantic Ventures, which invests in technology start-ups, has launched its fourth venture capital fund. The New Atlantic Venture Fund IV expects to…
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Three Tensions In Medical Innovation To Watch For In 2013 – Forbes
As we anticipate a new year characterized by unprecedented interest in healthcare innovation, pay particular attention to the following three emerging tensions in the…
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