BioHealth News Archive

Telcare secures $25M in equity funding – Washington Business Journal

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?

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

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

‘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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Scheer Partners Represents the Tech Council of Maryland in New Lease | Maryland Health Sciences Commercial Real Estate Services | Scheer Partners

Scheer Partners Represents the Tech Council of Maryland in New Lease | Maryland Health Sciences Commercial Real Estate Services | Scheer Partners

The Tech Council of Maryland (TCM) has moved its headquarters to a new location within Rockville, the result of a transaction recently put together…

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Montgomery College seeks to meet bioscience industry demands

Montgomery College seeks to meet bioscience industry demands

As Maryland’s bioscience industry focuses more on running clinical trials for drug developers, there’s a growing demand for the highly-trained workers needed. Montgomery College…

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Business of Bio @ The BioPark – Wednesday, September 5 at 10:30am to 1:00pm

Business of Bio @ The BioPark – Wednesday, September 5 at 10:30am to 1:00pm

University of Maryland BioPark, Life Sciences Conference Center Meet with Bahija Jallal, Ph.D., Executive Vice President of Research and Development, MedImmune The Changing Face…

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Aetna to buy Coventry Health Care – Washington Business Journal

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

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

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

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, 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

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 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

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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