BioHealth News Archive
NIH Director Introduces New Blog
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins debuted his new NIH Director's Blog last week. The blog, he wrote, is designed to "highlight…
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New AHRQ guide identifies successful design methods for development of consumer health IT
A new guide funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) “Designing Consumer Health IT: A Guide for Developers and Systems Designers”…
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Future Montgomery workforce experiments with science, medicine – The Washington Post
Learning CPR was the best part of Anne Selby’s day on Oct. 26. For her classmate Daniel Aguilar, it was learning how to operate…
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Voters support Dream Act – The Daily Times
Undocumented immigrants will begin paying in-state tuition rates at Maryland public colleges and universities in the wake of voters’ overwhelming support of the policy…
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Medimmune Ventures Joins $25M Funding For Ambit Biosciences – Washington DC Citybizlist
Ambit Biosciences Inc. has closed a $25 million of a new $50 million financing, the company announced. Existing investor OrbiMed Advisors led the financing…
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Hrabowski Fund for innovation to perpetuate great progress – The Retriever Weekly
Being one of the top institutions for higher education in the nation is something the UMBC community prides itself on. To continue along the…
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Computers “taught” to identify regulating gene sequences – R&D Magazine
Johns Hopkins researchers have succeeded in teaching computers how to identify commonalities in DNA sequences known to regulate gene activity, and to then use…
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Venture capital soars in third quarter in Maryland – Gazette.Net
Running a company that processes credit card information can help an executive keep his finger on the pulse of the economy. Hossein Noshirvani has…
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Breakthrough Offers a Better Way to Make Drugs – MIT Technology Review
Despite the huge amounts of money that the pharmaceutical industry spends on drug discovery, it is notoriously old-fashioned in how it actually makes its…
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Life Sciences Salary Survey 2012 – The Scientist Magazine
Salaries hinted at a recovery last year after a noticeable dip in 2010—the first-ever drop in The Scientist’s 10-year history of surveying the life…
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SAIC names heads of post-split companies – Washington Business Journal
McLean-based SAIC Inc., which said in August it would split its operations into two separate, publicly traded companies, says current chief executive John Jumper…
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Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund Receives National Economic Development Award
The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission (Commission) announced today that it has received the 2012 Excellence in Technology-Based Economic Development (TBED) Award from the…
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Long-Term Sea Level Rise Could Cost Washington, D.C., Billions
A University of Maryland study projects that Washington, D.C., city and federal property could suffer billions of dollars in damage if sea level rise…
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Emergent sets ambitious drug acquisition goal – Washington Business Journal
Rockville-based Emergent BioSolutions Inc. said Thursday it plans to develop or acquire three specialty products in biodefense and other markets by 2015, part of…
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Asian Pacific American Community news in the Washington DC metropolitan area – Asian Fortune
Since leaving China over two decades ago, I have been amazed at the scale and speed of the physical transformation the country is undergoing.…
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