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For the second consecutive year, Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine are co-sponsors of DreamIt Health Baltimore, a four-month boot camp for entrepreneurs that prepares health information technology startups to present their innovative ideas to the world. is a four-month intensive boot camp for entrepreneurs,

The program, designed to accelerate new product development for health IT startup companies, provides six new startups with access to top-tier legal and accounting services, along with opportunities to meet and pitch their ideas to angel investors and venture capitalists. Each startup also receives seed capital of up to $50,000.

THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015 | 4:30 – 7:00 PM

ALEXANDRIA CENTER® FOR LIFE SCIENCE – NEW YORK CITY

Converge at Alexandria is a quarterly series of panel discussions, presented by the
Alexandria Center for Life Science – NYC and the Roche Innovation Center – NY, exploring the most highly debated topics currently facing the life science community. Featuring a panel of experts representing key stakeholders from the R&D continuum, including researchers, clinicians, patients, funders, and non-profits, Converge at Alexandria will engage NYC’s life science community in discussions around current critical issues and provide the regular touch points necessary for ongoing connectivity and collaboration among NYC’s broad and diverse life science community.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2015–6:00PM to 8:00PM

With all of the focus on patient engagement, physician adoption, increased accessibility, lowering costs, improving outcomes and the millions of dollars pouring into the burgeoning Health IT space, this is an important discussion to have in terms of the sustainability and economic viability of these ventures.

At its growing East Baltimore facility, Emergent BioSolutions has produced a booster shot to go with a leading Ebola vaccine candidate, joining a competitive race to make a safe and effective tool to stop the spread of an outbreak that continues in West Africa and to prevent future outbreaks.

US-based Emergent BioSolutions has completed proof-of concept manufacturing of a modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) Ebola Zaire vaccine candidate (MVA EBOZ).

The MVA Ebola Zaire vaccine candidate is expected to be used in a Phase I clinical trial being supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust and the UK Department for International Development.

Peter Thiel is the co-founder of PayPal, the investor who discovered Facebook, and the author of Zero to One, a short account of the counterintuitive thinking that’s made him a godfather figure in Silicon Valley (see “The Contrarian’s Guide to Changing the World.”)+

But what’s less well known about Thiel is his affinity for biotechnology. By now he has invested in more than 25 startups, one of which has already turned into a $1 billion success story.+

Welcome to the fourth annual Inside Higher Ed academic bracket for the National Collegiate Athletic Association women’s basketball tournament. With this bracket, how teams perform in the classroom is what determines the victor. 

Here’s how it works: to determine the winners, we first look to the Academic Progress Rate, the N.C.A.A.’s multiyear measure of a team’s classroom performance. When two teams tie, we turn to the N.C.A.A.’s Graduation Success Rate, which measures the proportion of athletes on track to graduate within six years. In the event of a G.S.R. tie, we then turn to the Federal Graduation Rate, a slightly different formula that the government uses to track graduation rates.

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. has manufactured a possible Ebola vaccine that could serve as the booster for GlaxoSmithKline’s frontrunner candidate in the international race to create an effective treatment for the deadly virus.

Gaithersburg-based Emergent (NYSE: EBS) produced a vaccine batch that will be used by Oxford University researchers in a Phase 1 clinical trial with GlaxoSmithKline’s Ebola candidate. GSK’s candidate uses a type of chimpanzee virus to deliver safe genetic material from the Zaire strain of Ebola, the strain responsible for the epidemic in West Africa. That drug candidate began clinical trials in Africa in January, Reuters reported.

Commercially available unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have gotten pretty amazing and quite cheap over the last few years, thanks to new brushless motors, lithium polymer batteries, and sensors already found in today’s smartphones. They’re already being used by farmers to survey fields, real estate agents to survey properties, and by rescue teams to look for people in difficult to reach places. Lately there have been attempts to use drones for medical applications, such as ferrying automatic external defibrillators and emergency medicines faster than ambulances. In the latest Air Medical Journal, three researchers from Mayo Clinic’s Department of Surgery investigate the potential for drones to be used to deliver things such as drugs and blood derivatives to clinics, disaster areas, and to remote places that are expensive to reach such as ships and offshore oil platforms.