BioHealth News Archive
Aetna to buy Coventry Health Care – Washington Business Journal
Aetna Inc. will acquire Bethesda-based Coventry Health Care Inc. in a $5.7 billion deal in cash and stock, a move that will make Aetna…
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Could FastStitch Device, Invented by Undergrads, Be the Future of Suture? « News from The Johns Hopkins University
After a surgeon stitches up a patient’s abdomen, costly complications—some life-threatening—can occur. To cut down on these postoperative problems, Johns Hopkins undergraduates have invented…
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Pitch Across Maryland | Startup Maryland
There are entrepreneurs all over our state. Here’s your chance to get to know them! Startup Maryland is launching Pitch Across Maryland, a state-wide…
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Health News – University of Maryland School of Medicine Researchers Identify Gut Bacteria Associated With Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified 26 species of bacteria in the human gut microbiota that appear to be…
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Johns Hopkins, NIH to Host Second Annual Symposium on Infection Imaging | Children’s Hospital at Johns Hopkins | Baltimore, Maryland
Johns Hopkins imaging specialists are teaming up with investigators from the National Institutes of Health to host the second annual molecular imaging symposium on…
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Fina Biosolutions Licenses Rights to its Vaccine Conjugation Technology for Development and Manufacturing of PNEUMOCOCCAL vaccines in China to Chengdu Institute of Biological Products Co., Ltd
Deal will accelerate development of affordable Pneumococcal Vaccines in China Fina Biosolutions LLC, a research and development stage biotechnology company focused on developing affordable…
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University of Maryland MIPS program awards $4M – Baltimore Business Journal
University of Maryland’s Maryland Industrial Partnerships awarded $4 million to 19 technology development projects. The projects team Maryland technology companies with university researchers in…
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More Applications; Many More Applicants NIH Extramural Nexus
We all know that NIH has seen a large increase in applications over the past decade, but how much of this is due to…
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MdBio Leadership Series with Peter Greenleaf, President of MedImmune
The state of the Life Sciences Industry The biopharmaceutical industry has experienced major changes in the past few years with more changes expected to…
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MedImmune’s Greenleaf, Clovis Oncology’s Mahaffy to Deliver Keynotes at 2012 Mid-Atlantic Bio Conference – MarketWatch
The Mid-Atlantic Bio Conference today announced that two industry-leading executives will deliver keynote addresses at the nationally recognized conference taking place on September 27-28…
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Mid-Atlantic Biotech Conference – September 27-28, 2012
Policy and partnerships. Innovation and investment. Access and awareness. Mid-Atlantic Bio: at the epicenter of bioscience R&D, capital and policy. Mid-Atlantic Bio is the…
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The CyberMaryland Conference – October 16-17, 2012
Join cybersecurity leaders, luminaries and rising stars at CyberMaryland 2012. Be at the epicenter of information security and innovation during Cyber Security Awareness month…
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University of Maryland vaccine center gets $4M grant from Wellcome Trust – Baltimore Business Journal
The Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine received a $4 million grant from The Wellcome Trust, considered among…
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Brace Yourself: Biotech IPOs Are Beating Tech’s Big Names | Xconomy
The average American on the street has a Facebook account, an opinion about Facebook, heard about the Facebook initial public offering, and knows it collapsed.…
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Sara Nayeem, George Bell IV – Weddings – NYTimes.com
Dr. Sara Michelle Nayeem and Dr. George Wall Bell IV were married Saturday evening at River Farm in Alexandria, Va. The Rev. Michael Godzwa,…
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