BioHealth News Archive
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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Telcare secures $25M in equity funding – Washington Business Journal
Bethesda-based Telcare Inc. has secured more than $25 million in equity funding. Telcare, the developer of the first FDA-cleared wireless glucose monitoring system for…
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What Do Government and South by Southwest Have in Common?
Voting is currently open for the South by Southwest (SXSW) PanelPicker! SXSW has evolved to become one of the largest interactive media, technology and…
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An Insider’s View on Raising Money from Life Sciences VCs | Xconomy
The life sciences venture capital industry is undergoing rapid change. Although many innovative ideas have been taken from the bench to scientific discovery to…
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‘Unconference’ Sets Out to ‘un-Wire’ Baltimore | The Chatter | Baltimore magazine
Initiated by gb.tc (formerly the Greater Baltimore Technology Council) and sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Whiting School ofEngineering, local tech, nonprofit, business and government…
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