BioHealth News Archive
Accelerator Looks to Expand, With an Eye on the Big Apple | Xconomy
Accelerator, the venture-backed biotech startup machine, has made its name over the past decade as a hotspot for financing life sciences companies in Seattle with…
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Judge sides with HGS on poison pill
The latest chapter in Human Genome Sciences’ battle to fend off a hostile takeover bid by British pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline played out in a…
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Johns Hopkins’ High Tech Hospital: Interview with President Ronald R. Peterson
Johns Hopkins has had many milestones since it first opened its hospital in Baltimore in 1889. It pioneered the acceptance of women to medical school and…
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iTEC Webinar Series – Research Commercialization and SBIR Center
Private Sector Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program in partnership with the NIH/OTT Monday, June 11, 12:00 pm to 12:30pm ET Presenters: Richard Bendis Founding President and CEO…
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Montgomery County Innovation Network
If you are an emerging advanced technology, life sciences or professional services company or a foreign business looking for a soft landing in the…
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Demand for Biotech Tax Breaks | The Scientist
United States Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has introduced legislation that will revive the Therapeutic Discovery Project Tax Credit, which funneled $1 billion in tax…
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Academic and Tech Transfer Community to be Spotlighted at the 2012 BIO International Convention
Universities have historically been on the front lines of translating innovative research into novel medicines and technologies useful to patients. With that in mind,…
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The Johns Hopkins University Names New Carey Business School Dean
Bernard T. “Bernie” Ferrari, an accomplished corporate strategist and management consultant to Fortune 50 companies, has been named the next dean of The Johns…
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Lilly invests in $150 million Canada life sciences fund
Eli Lilly is participating in a new investment fund which will focus primarily on early-stage drug development opportunities in Canada as a whole and…
Read MoreWhy we need a Federal Lab Innovation Authority: Unlocking Our Federal Lab Resources for Economic Growth
Below is an editorial suggesting the nation could become more economically competitive by helping remove barriers to connect our federal lab technology, human and…
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MedImmune creates new Cambridge hothouse
MedImmune in Cambridge UK is reaching out to academics and biotech companies in a bid to improve the industry’s poor neuroscience track record. Together…
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Why doctors won’t stop PSA testing anytime soon
Johns Hopkins researchers say it’s going to be a hard sell to get physicians to stop screening healthy men routinely for prostate cancer with…
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InvestMaryland Forum
Thursday, June 14, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (ET)Rockville, MD A free and open forum to: Discuss InvestMaryland implementation progress and investment…
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The “Valley of Death” Looms for 8 Kids with a Rare Disease | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
The pharmaceutical industry rightly calls the stage in drug development between basic research and clinical trials the “Valley of Death.” This is when a…
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2012 BIO International Convention – Boston
Thousands of companies from around the world and all industry segments will be at BIO, ready to build strategic partnerships. Attend the Global Event…
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