BioHealth News Archive

Startup Maryland to host biz plan competition MDBIZNews

Startup Maryland to host biz plan competition MDBIZNews

The entrepreneur support and advocacy group founded this spring will crisscross the state on a two-and-a-half-week bus tour in September. The trip starts Sept.…

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Industry Experts Recruited to Grow Bioscience Companies in St. Louis

Industry Experts Recruited to Grow Bioscience Companies in St. Louis

Four new Entrepreneurs In Residence (EIRs) have joined the BioGenerator, a nonprofit subsidiary of BioSTL, to create, lead, and support new bioscience companies St.…

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Maryland reaches for spotlight at Biotechnology Industry Organization convention

Maryland reaches for spotlight at Biotechnology Industry Organization convention

Maryland’s biotechs continued to leave their mark on the industry at this week’s global convention in Boston, with several executives claiming prominent board positions…

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JHU Center for Biotechnology Education Hosts Inaugural Bioentrepreneurship Education Conference

JHU Center for Biotechnology Education Hosts Inaugural Bioentrepreneurship Education Conference

The Johns Hopkins Center for Biotechnology Education (CBE) welcomed more than 20 academicians onto campus last weekend for the 1st Annual International Bioentrepreneurship Education…

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Day 3 of BIO 2012: BIO Advocacy, Ted Kennedy’s Legacy, and Opinion Poll on the Outlook of Biotech

Day 3 of BIO 2012: BIO Advocacy, Ted Kennedy’s Legacy, and Opinion Poll on the Outlook of Biotech

On the last full day of the BIO Convention, Tom Watkins, President and CEO of Human Genome Sciences and Chairman of the Board for…

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Johns Hopkins Medicine Awarded $19.9M Innovation Grant from CMS for its J-CHiP Program

Johns Hopkins Medicine Awarded $19.9M Innovation Grant from CMS for its J-CHiP Program

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Health System (together known as Johns Hopkins Medicine, or JHM), has…

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Biotech Tesaro sets terms for $81 million US IPO – NASDAQ.com

Biotech Tesaro sets terms for $81 million US IPO – NASDAQ.com

Tesaro, a biotech focused on the treatment of chemotherapy-induced symptoms, announced terms for its IPO on Tuesday. The Waltham, MA-based company plans to raise…

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Maryland forms biotech partnership with Paris – Baltimore Business Journal

Maryland forms biotech partnership with Paris – Baltimore Business Journal

Maryland’s economic development office has formed a partnership with a Paris region to team on disease research and translational medicine. The letter of intent…

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New video game from MdBio targets biotech’s next-generation work force

New video game from MdBio targets biotech’s next-generation work force

Trying to meet the future work force where it is, some Maryland biotech executives are backing a unique strategy to help market an educational…

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Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Inks Business Partnership with BioHealth Innovation to Bring Health and Life Sciences Research to Market – MarketWatch

Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore Inks Business Partnership with BioHealth Innovation to Bring Health and Life Sciences Research to Market – MarketWatch

The Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore (EAGB) announced today that it has completed a formal agreement to serve as Greater Baltimore's primary business partner…

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UMB BioPark signs Biogen Diagnostics, Global Scientific as tenants – Baltimore Business Journal

UMB BioPark signs Biogen Diagnostics, Global Scientific as tenants – Baltimore Business Journal

Two new companies are moving in to the University of Maryland    BioPark, university officials said Tuesday. Biogen Diagnostics Ltd., based in the United…

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Maryland hopes for big splash at BIO?in Boston

Maryland hopes for big splash at BIO?in Boston

Maryland bioscience executives, along with county and state officials, are in Boston this week to sell the state’s potential to the world’s biotech industry.…

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Rockville biotech snags $220M for biodefense center

Rockville biotech snags $220M for biodefense center

Emergent BioSolutions, the Rockville biotech that sells the only approved anthrax vaccine to the federal government, has won a $220 million grant to establish…

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Emergent BioSolutions to develop HHS innovation center – Washington Business Journal

Emergent BioSolutions to develop HHS innovation center – Washington Business Journal

Rockville-based Emergent BioSolutions Inc.    has formed a public-private partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a Center for Innovation…

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6th Street Commerce Wins 2012 Maryland Incubator Company Of The Year Award – Houston Chronicle

6th Street Commerce Wins 2012 Maryland Incubator Company Of The Year Award – Houston Chronicle

6th Street Commerce, an innovative E-commerce solutions provider to the retail industry, today announced that the company was selected Maryland Incubator Company of the…

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