Baltimore startup emocha is working with a local healthcare organization on a new pilot that brings its mobile video technology to Type 2 diabetes patients in the city.
The biopharma industry continues to face challenges this year, with projected returns on investment in R&D at the lowest levels since our analysis began in 2010. However, there are opportunities to reverse this trend, which will require new ways of working and a complete digital transformation to unlock R&D productivity and deliver the next generation of scientific breakthroughs.
The Maryland Department of Commerce is seeking BioHealth companies with an interest in participating in a trade mission to the United Kingdom hosted by British Midlands Engine.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore has granted Educational & Scientific, LLC an exclusive license with the potential to treat prostate cancer, UM Ventures announced Monday. The agreement allows Educational & Scientific to develop Galeterone, a molecule that could inhibit prostate cancer growth in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer. The molecule has had successful Phase 1 and Phase …
Health care stocks are among a handful of sectors bucking the broader market downturn in 2018. Biotechs, though down for the year, have suffered less damage than other stocks.
A startup developing new cancer treatments recently signed its second tech transfer deal with the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
After leading Harpoon Medical to a $100 million acquisition by Edwards Lifesciences last year, CEO Bill Niland and three other executives are now working on a fledgling medial device startup creating a minimally invasive treatment for degenerative disc disease in the lower back.
The research institute founded and headed by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., yesterday won the dismissal of a federal lawsuit filed against it by the company he co-founded four years ago to develop and apply large-scale computing and machine learning toward making discoveries intended to revolutionize the practice of medicine. Judge William Q. Hayes of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California sided with the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) by dismissing the lawsuit brought against it by Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), the company Venter co-founded in 2014.
General Electric has filed paperwork for an IPO of its health-care unit, GE Healthcare, according to people familiar with the matter.
GE is working with JPMorgan Chase on an initial public offering that would likely come mid-2019, someone familiar with the plans told CNBC. Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are also working with GE, according to Bloomberg News. The new public company would rank among the largest in the world.
