BioHealth News Archive
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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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
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
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 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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