BioHealth News Archive
San Francisco Becomes Leading Center of Innovation in Health Care and Biosciences
UCSF and its affiliates have been successful in the transformation of San Francisco as a leading center of innovation in health care and biosciences,…
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Pitch Across Maryland Tops Expectations | Baltimore Citybizlist
After more than two weeks crisscrossing the state with stops in Ocean City, La Plata, Hagerstown and pretty much everywhere in between, the bright…
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Maryland venture capital program to award three firms $100,000 each in entrepreneur contest – Washington Business Journal
Maryland will be giving away $300,000 to promising entrepreneurs in a business competition. The contest, called the InvestMaryland Challenge, is part of the state’s…
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Gaithersburg Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals wins FDA approval for eye treatment – Washington Business Journal
Gaithersburg-based Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Thursday it has won Food and Drug Administration approval for Cystaran, which treats a symptom of the rare genetic…
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Maryland expands stem cell grants to private companies – Baltimore Business Journal
Private companies will now be able to apply for their own research grants from the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund. The Maryland Stem Cell…
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Hopkins doctors make new ear for woman on her arm
A woman has a new ear, thanks to a mind-blowing procedure performed at Johns Hopkins. 42-year old Sherri Walter had cancer on her ear…
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Nurturing Success: Growth in Store for Towson Incubator
When Clay Hickson talks about technology and innovation, he isn’t limiting himself to IT, biotechnology or robotics. The executive director of Towson University's TowsonGlobal Business…
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Maryland: A Hotbed for Startups « Governor O’Malley’s Blog
We wanted to share this blog from the co-chairs of Startup Maryland where they talk about their experiences on the first-ever “Pitch Across Maryland”…
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UMD and UMB “MPower the State” with New Collaborative School of Public Health :: University Communications Newsdesk, University of Maryland
The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) today announced a collaborative school of public health that will…
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Regional cooperation cited as key for biotech industry to thrive | Daily Progress
Biotech companies in Virginia, Maryland and Washington are better served by meeting challenges as a region, industry experts say. One reason, according to Peter…
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Jacoby takes firmer hold of reins at Tech Council of Maryland
For Art Jacoby, the new CEO of the Tech Council of Maryland, the right leadership can be a “game changer.” Jacoby hopes to be…
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NEA’s JIm Barrett: Drug innovation should be rewarded, even if it means higher prices – Washington Business Journal
Society needs to “take seriously the rewards for innovators” through the patent system to improve the biotech investing climate, New Enterprise Associates Inc. General…
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Pharmaceutical Firms Widen Search for Medicines – Technology Review
The drug company GlaxoSmithKline employs 12,687 people in its research and development division to search for and test new drugs. Despite that huge staff,…
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SAIC CEO John Jumper speaks on company split, sequestration – Washington Business Journal
After the announcement late last month from Science Applications International Corp. that it will split into two publicly traded companies, CEO John Jumper said…
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NCATS Collaborative Project Wins Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer
A collaborative research team, including nine experts from NCATS, was honored last month for its work on an investigational treatment for Niemann-Pick disease type…
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