BioHealth News Archive
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
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
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
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
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
When science fiction films depict the future, the best writers and directors are often less concerned with accurately predicting how specific technologies might reshape…
Read MoreU.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
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
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
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
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
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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Vaxin moves from Birmingham to Maryland | al.com
Vaxin Inc., a promising biotech company spun from research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, quietly moved from Innovation Depot to a new…
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The FDA Turns Friendly Toward Pharma in 2012 | Xconomy
The FDA, for most of the past 10 years, was the regulatory agency that many people in biotech and pharma loved to hate. Critics…
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Smith School Launches Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program
A trio of social entrepreneurs with industry success in technology, law and fashion are appointees to the inaugural Social-Entrepreneur-In-Residence team at the Robert H.…
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