
Baltimore, by a curious mixture of geographic positioning, educated talent, proximity to pork, and determined capital, is poised to become a crucial part of the East Coast technology cluster.

Baltimore, by a curious mixture of geographic positioning, educated talent, proximity to pork, and determined capital, is poised to become a crucial part of the East Coast technology cluster.

“BioIT Solutions of Silver Spring, Maryland has been selected as one of the 50 Most Valuable Tech Companies by Insights Success magazine in their December issue. We are the only company in the list focused on the biotechnology industry.”

Do you work in Greater Washington and love your employer? Then you probably work at a federal agency. We asked Glassdoor, a job-recruiting site that allows employees to anonymously grade their company and their CEO, to crunch the numbers to find out who the most-liked employers are in Greater Washington. We recently compiled a list of most-liked CEOs, too.

The crisis in soaring drug prices has produced not merely a new class of public enemies to skewer — step forward, Martin Shkreli! — but the best evidence yet that the nation’s healthcare regulatory priorities are out of whack.

AT&T next month will open a center focused on digital health innovations within the Texas Medical Center’s state-of-the-art Innovation Institute, the communications giant announced on Tuesday.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016 2:00 pm
When developing a new drug or technology, innovators are generally focused on achieving regulatory approval. But often they don’t spend enough time considering how the product will be paid for once it is approved. This NHLBI Small Biz Hangout will focus on basic components of reimbursement that every innovator needs to understand—coverage, coding, and payment. Attendees will hear guidance on how to implement an effective reimbursement strategy while their product is still in development.

What is technology transfer / business development and what are the career opportunities in the field? What are the skills required and how does one acquire them? How can an scientist start a non-traditional career such as this? These are the questions to be answered in this presentation from two former bench scientists from the National Cancer Institute.

Barbara Crews, assistant executive director for community relations at the Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus, has been appointed to an executive committee position with the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce board of directors.
Crews will serve a yearlong term as vice chair for member recruitment and retention. In this role, she will help the chamber recruit new members and retain existing ones. She will help existing members get the most out of their memberships by engaging them in chamber activities.

Facebook has been making tentative steps in the health tech realm. I’m not referring to Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic ambitions. But the social media network has demonstrated an interest in some diverse areas from genomic testing to public health. There’s even more going on with its Internet.org division but the company has been pretty tight-lipped about new developments on this front with most information on healthcare projects coming from entrepreneurs rather than the technology company. Here are a few areas that could grow in 2016.

Medical technology is slated to be a $40 billion market in India by 2025. But it’s largely ignored, says Siraj Dhanani, founder of InnAccel, India’s first medical technology incubator.
“It’s a market that’s suboptimally served, and there are global models for med-tech innovation that can be successfully implemented in India,” he says, seated in his Bangalore office.