BioHealth News Archive
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
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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Forbes names Becton, Dickinson one of ‘world’s most innovative’ – Baltimore Business Journal
Apparently, there’s lots of innovation going on up at BD Diagnostic Systems in Sparks. Forbes listed its New Jersey parent company, Becton, Dickinson &…
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For young Md. immigrants, a path out of the shadows – The Washington Post
They call themselves “shadows” — young Maryland residents brought to this country as children by their parents. They worked hard. They excelled in our…
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Entrepreneurs Invited to Get on the Bus and Celebrate Their Innovations and Businesses During the Pitch Across Maryland Tour
Startup Maryland Teams with Regional Innovation Stakeholder to Co-Host Tour Stops Across the State of Maryland Startup Maryland is launching Pitch Across Maryland, a…
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SureScripts strikes health records deal with Epic – Washington Business Journal
Arlington-based Surescripts will partner with health record-keeping giant Epic Systems Corp. to allow doctors to transfer records between the two patient data networks, the…
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As Tuberculosis Grows More Difficult to Control, Vaccine Candidate to Prevent Disease Enters Clinical Testing
Aeras and the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) announce today the start of the first clinical trial of IDRI’s novel tuberculosis vaccine candidate, ID93…
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Fyodor Biotechnologies Inc Awarded a National
Fyodor Biotechnologies, a Baltimore-based diagnostic and biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the National Science Foundation has awarded the company a Small Business Innovation Research…
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