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StartUp Maryland Pitch Tour Bus Revs Up Entreprenuerial Spirit

StartUp Maryland Pitch Tour Bus Revs Up Entreprenuerial Spirit

By tour’s end, between 60 and 100 Maryland entrepreneurs will have met the StartUp Maryland Pitch Tour bus now traversing the state to offer…

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After growth, MedImmune pushes on midstage pipeline – Washington Business Journal

After growth, MedImmune pushes on midstage pipeline – Washington Business Journal

MedImmune is increasingly concentrating its workforce in Maryland, both through new hires and consolidations from California, as it prepares to take a host of…

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QIAGEN Teams with China’s Lepu Medical to Provide Rapid Diagnosis of Heart Attacks Using Point of Need Testing

QIAGEN Teams with China’s Lepu Medical to Provide Rapid Diagnosis of Heart Attacks Using Point of Need Testing

QIAGEN N.V.  today announced an agreement with Lepu Medical Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., a leading medical device company in China, to provide QIAGEN's ESEQuant…

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Maryland Biotechnology Center Opens Applications for Up to $200K in Individual Awards | Baltimore Citybizlist

Maryland Biotechnology Center Opens Applications for Up to $200K in Individual Awards | Baltimore Citybizlist

The Maryland Biotechnology Center, an office of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, opened the application process for its FY 2013 biotechnology…

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Tech Council of Maryland quietly promotes Jacoby to top spot – Baltimore Business Journal

Tech Council of Maryland quietly promotes Jacoby to top spot – Baltimore Business Journal

Art Jacoby’s turn as chief of the Tech Council of Maryland was intended as a stop-gap gig, meant to fill the interregnum between the…

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Looking for Cures Lost in Translation

Looking for Cures Lost in Translation

In a recent article in Slate magazine’s Future Tense project,  Pascal Zachary made a key observation about the strange estrangement of science from technology…

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Biotechnology Development Grants – FY2013 Awards (up to $200K) Applications Now Available

Biotechnology Development Grants – FY2013 Awards (up to $200K) Applications Now Available

Deadline to Apply: October 17, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. The Maryland Biotechnology Center’s (MBC) Biotechnology Development Awards provide funding to advance biotechnology research and development…

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RxAnte gets $4.6M investment – Washington Business Journal

RxAnte gets $4.6M investment – Washington Business Journal

McLean-based RxAnte, developing technologies that help make sure people take their prescription drugs, has received a $4.6 million investment from Aberdare Ventures and West…

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Mapping The Next Three Decades of Health Technology | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Mapping The Next Three Decades of Health Technology | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

When science fiction films depict the future, the best writers and directors are often less concerned with accurately predicting how specific technologies might reshape…

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U.S. Life-Sciences Valuations Creeping Upward, Law Firm Says – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ

Law firm Fenwick & West, which handles legal issues for a variety of technology companies, has examined 186 venture fundings of U.S.-based companies in the…

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MedImmune preparing for Gaithersburg campus expansion

MedImmune preparing for Gaithersburg campus expansion

Representatives for Gaithersburg biotech company MedImmune hinted at an expansion of their campus at a mayor and council work session Monday evening. Medimmune Executive…

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Nancy Floreen to talk economic development at White House – Maryland Politics – The Washington Post

Nancy Floreen to talk economic development at White House – Maryland Politics – The Washington Post

Montgomery County Council member Nancy Floreen has been invited by the White House to attend a special forum on economic development, the county announced…

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Tech Council of Maryland MdBio Leadership Breakfast Focuses on Issues of Importance to Maryland’s Biotech Industry – MarketWatch

Tech Council of Maryland MdBio Leadership Breakfast Focuses on Issues of Importance to Maryland’s Biotech Industry – MarketWatch

Peter Greenleaf, president of MedImmune, the Gaithersburg, Maryland-based global biologics arm of AstraZeneca, addressed many of the challenges and growth opportunities for Maryland biotech…

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MedImmune, WuXi AppTec to develop new biologic for China – Pharmaceutical Business Review

MedImmune, WuXi AppTec to develop new biologic for China – Pharmaceutical Business Review

AstraZeneca biologics arm MedImmune and WuXi AppTec have formed a joint venture (JV) to develop and commercialize MEDI5117, a new biologic for autoimmune and…

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TEDCO awards $1.2M to 16 area startups – Baltimore Business Journal

TEDCO awards $1.2M to 16 area startups – Baltimore Business Journal

The Maryland Technology Development Corp. awarded almost $1.2 million to 16 Maryland startups in its latest round of funding. The funding, through TEDCO’s Maryland…

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