BioHealth News Archive
Biotech company seeks share of tobacco money – Gazette.Net
A Maryland biotechnology company is pushing for the state to expand eligibility to a pool of money from tobacco companies that funds anti-smoking and…
Read More
Montgomery County to businesses: Take cash, give stake – Washington Business Journal
Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett wants to provide some high-tech companies with capital in exchange for ownership stakes in the businesses, a first for…
Read More
3rd Q Venture Capital Rises in Maryland – MoneyTree™ Report – PricewaterhouseCoopers
Venture capitalists invested $7.0 billion in 898 deals in the second quarter of 2012, according to the MoneyTree™ Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the…
Read More
Johns Hopkins scientists pair blood test and gene sequencing to detect cancer – Science Codex
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have combined the ability to detect cancer DNA in the blood with genome sequencing technology in…
Read More
Chinese Medicine Booming – Business Insider
According to the consensus, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) will fall in popularity as young people grow up and demand chemical medicines. But Morgan Stanley's…
Read More
Maryland, A great place to start your business – Startup America Partnership
Historically startups have been synonymous with Silicon Valley, but as more and more communities across the country support entrepreneurs we hope to change this perception.…
Read More
QIAGEN Gains SFDA Approval to Market careHPV Test in China – Expanding Access to HPV Testing in Low-resource Countries – redOrbit
QIAGEN N.V. today announced that China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) has approved QIAGEN’s careHPV Test and instrument platform. The careHPV Test is…
Read More
Spending on academic research rose 6.9% in 2011 – Inside Higher Ed
Research university administrators are understandably jittery about the fiscal cliff facing policy makers in Washington, given the prospect that federal budget cutbacks would shave…
Read More
Eleven Montgomery County Companies Make Inc. 500 List
This week, October 15-19, 2012, is Economic Development Week across Maryland, initiated and sponsored by the Maryland Economic Development Association (MEDA). In recognition, the…
Read More
MdBio Foundation Names Brian Gaines as CEO – MarketWatch
The MdBio Foundation, Inc. today announced that it has named Brian Gaines as its CEO. Gaines brings more than 25 years of leadership, philanthropic…
Read More
ETC’s AccelerateBaltimore™ Continues to Build & Grow Baltimore Businesses
Baltimore City’s technology incubator, Emerging Technology Center (ETC), announced today that 14 experienced mentors have agreed to participate in the 2013 program, AccelerateBaltimore™. AccelerateBaltimore™…
Read More
Federal government and big pharma seen as increasingly diminished source of research funding
In a commentary to be published in the Dec. 12 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, two Johns Hopkins faculty members…
Read More
Montgomery County considers investing in companies – WashingtonExaminer.com
Businesses that receive economic development money from Montgomery County soon might have to share some of their profit with the county government. A bill…
Read More
TATRC’s Technology Transfer/Commercialization Program could be a model for speeding viable medical innovations to the warfighter
The goal of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC) is to translate…
Read More
MedImmune Ventures Joins $37.5M Series B For AGTC – Baltimore Citybizlist
Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation, (AGTC), a privately-held, clinical stage biotechnology company developing gene therapy products to treat rare retinal diseases, announced today that it…
Read More