Precision medicine is using knowledge about a person’s genetic code to tailor treatments to that individual for the most optimal outcome. Think of sequencing tumors and then determining a treatment regimen based on biomarkers or genetic variants.
MOVE over Caltech, Georgia Tech, and MIT – the University of Oxford has been named the best university in the world for computer science degrees for 2019. The ranking compares the top computer science programs in the world. ETH Zurich ranked number 2 on the list, followed by Stanford University (No. 3), the University of Cambridge (No. 4), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (No. 5).
Why Rockville Video, produced by Rockville Economic Development, Inc., featuring BioHealth Innovation’s Judy Costello.
The University of Maryland Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices celebrated its official launch on Thursday, January 3, 2019. The event kicked off included presentations by researchers at the Institute and supported by the the Institute taking place at the A. James Clark School of Engineering, the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Children’s National Health Center, University of Maryland Insitute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 12:30 – 4:00pm
Are you a young company or thinking of starting up a new firm. What do you need to know related to taxes? –tax credits? Filing? Tax liability? Other accounting issues? Learn the answers to these questions and more.
Register by noon, 1/22 to participate in person / by video conference**
- 12:00 p.m. – Networking Lunch
- 12:30-1:30 p.m. – Panel and Q&A with experts
- 1:30 p.m. – 1:1 meetings*
*Attendance at Panel is required to participate in 1:1 meeting with expert.
**In person at BHI HQ, 1 Church Street, Rockville, MD or by videoconference.
The Pistoia Alliance announced key trends for the life science industry in 2019 based on The Life Sciences Innovation Report developed with Clarivate Analytics.
Congrats to Alexandria a BHI partner and Board Member for their commitment to early-stage BioHealth investing.
Alexandria Venture Investments, the strategic venture capital arm of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. based in Pasadena, was recognized by Silicon Valley Bank as the most active biopharma investor by new deal volume in 2017-2018.
University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, announced today that Claire M. Fraser, PhD, a pioneer in the field of microbialgenomics, who is the Dean’s Endowed Professor, Department of Medicine, and Director of the Institutefor Genome Sciences (IGS), has been chosen as president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting edge research through its Science family of journals.
The STSI’s 107 individual indicators are sorted into five composites: research and development (R&D) inputs, risk capital and entrepreneurial infrastructure, human capital investment, technology and science workforce, and technology concentration and dynamism.
Maryland placed third on think tank Milken Institute’s 2018 State Technology and Science Index, ranking innovation pipelines. Maryland also placed third in 2016’s report.