BioHealth News Archive
National Institutes of Health signs big lease in Bethesda – Washington Business Journal
The National Institutes of Health has renewed a Bethesda lease, staying put for at least another decade. The General Services Administration signed a 10-year…
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You might be a healthcare startup mentor if … (5 must-have qualities of a good mentor) | MedCity News
These days, everyone thinks he’s a mentor. With accelerators, incubators and innovation events sprouting everywhere, there’s plenty of opportunity for seasoned entrepreneurs to pass…
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Vaccine maker MedImmune has a new AZ chief – FierceVaccines
Five years ago this summer, AstraZeneca ($AZN) decided to pony up to purchase Maryland-based MedImmune for a cool $15.6 billion, a deal that left…
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Baltimore Innovation Week 2012
Baltimore Innovation Week is a week-long celebration of technology and innovation in Baltimore. The annual week of events is intended to grow the impact…
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Johns Hopkins Medicine wins $8.9M patient safety research grant – Baltimore Business Journal
Johns Hopkins Medicine received an $8.9 million grant Tuesday to put toward patient safety research. The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, based…
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Johns Hopkins Researchers Discover Link Between A Protein And Aggressive, Recurring Prostate Cancer
In a study to decipher clues about how prostate cancer cells grow and become more aggressive, Johns Hopkins urologists have found that reduction of…
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University Inventions Earned $1.4-Billion in 2011 – Administration – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Universities and their inventors earned more than $1.4-billion from commercializing their academic research in the 2011 fiscal year, collecting royalties from new breeds of…
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Global Biotech Bases U.S. Headquarters, Commercial Operations at University of Maryland BioPark
The University of Maryland BioPark announced today that Fluxome Inc., a nutraceutical ingredient company using novel metabolic engineering and fermentation methods, is the newest…
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Rockville Economic Development Inc. declares winners in StartRight competition – The Washington Post
Rockville Economic Development Inc. has chosen the winners of its annual StartRight business plan competition, awarding the top prizes to entrepreneurs who created a…
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Mid-Atlantic Bio Announces SBIR Workshops and Panels – MarketWatch
As a special offering presented during the upcoming annual Mid-Atlantic Bio conference, co-hosts announced a comprehensive line-up of programming focused on the Small Business…
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A New and Exciting Way to Search for Federal Technologies – One Stop Shop
It's now much faster and easier to search for federal laboratory inventions that are available for transfer to business partners. The Federal Laboratory Consortium…
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NIH SBIR Contract Solicitation Now Available | atdc.org
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued the new SBIR contract solicitation aimed at supporting the…
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Review of NIH’s Big Hitters | The Scientist
According to a new policy announced this week (August 20) by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), scientists receiving more than $1 million in…
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Johns Hopkins researchers return blood cells to stem cell state
Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a reliable method to turn the clock back on blood cells, restoring them to a primitive stem cell state…
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TWO MEDIMMUNE FACILITIES AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS LEED® GOLD BUILDING CERTIFICATION
MedImmune, the global biologics arm of AstraZeneca, announced today that it has been awarded LEED® Gold building certification established by the U.S. Green Building…
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