BioHealth News Archive

Rockville Economic Development Inc. appoints executive director

Rockville Economic Development Inc. appoints executive director

Laurie Boyer, president of the Maryland Economic Development Association, is the new executive director of Rockville Economic Development Inc. Boyer has more than 15…

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BioPulse – New cancer center breaks ground

BioPulse – New cancer center breaks ground

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Who’s on Biotech’s Endangered Species List? Mid-Sized Drug Developers | Xconomy

Who’s on Biotech’s Endangered Species List? Mid-Sized Drug Developers | Xconomy

Only a few companies have ever been successful enough to call themselves Big Biotechs. If boards and shareholders lack vision and guts, we’ll look back…

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Cleveland Clinic to help Notre Dame commercialize medical innovations

Cleveland Clinic to help Notre Dame commercialize medical innovations

Following on the heels of two hospitals, the University of Notre Dame has become the first university to strike a collaboration with Cleveland Clinic…

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Osiris becomes first company to market stem-cell therapy – Baltimore Business Journal

Osiris becomes first company to market stem-cell therapy – Baltimore Business Journal

Osiris Therapeutics Inc. in Columbia has become the world’s first company to receive market approval for a manufactured stem cell product. Health Canada, the…

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Emergent gets FDA approval for modified vaccine dosing – Washington Business Journal

Emergent gets FDA approval for modified vaccine dosing – Washington Business Journal

Rockville-based Emergent BioSolutions Inc. , which makes the only vaccine licensed by the Food and Drug Administration to protect against anthrax infection, has received…

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United Therapeutics to Own Even More of Downtown Silver Spring

United Therapeutics to Own Even More of Downtown Silver Spring

United Therapeutics, which has has greatly expanded their downtown Silver Spring presence as of late, is reportedly set to purchase from the county the…

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Human Genome Sciences adopts stockholder rights plan – Baltimore Business Journal

Human Genome Sciences adopts stockholder rights plan – Baltimore Business Journal

Human Genome Sciences Inc, which has rejected a hostile $13-per-share offer from GlaxoSmithKline, has adopted a short-term stockholder rights plan to fend off such…

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Two INNoVATE Students Take First Place in Maryland Business Plan Competition ‹ Hopkins Happenings

Two INNoVATE Students Take First Place in Maryland Business Plan Competition ‹ Hopkins Happenings

When Adam Steele worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), he and two other colleagues invented a technology that Steele believed…

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The top 5 complications of FDA medical device trials

The top 5 complications of FDA medical device trials

“You do a really good job with complex trials.” We’re lucky to say that we’ve heard this from several clients over the years. But,…

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Human Genome Sciences Board of Directors Unanimously Determines GlaxoSmithKline Unsolicited Tender Offer is Inadequate and Not in the Best Interests of Stockholders – MarketWatch

Human Genome Sciences Board of Directors Unanimously Determines GlaxoSmithKline Unsolicited Tender Offer is Inadequate and Not in the Best Interests of Stockholders – MarketWatch

Human Genome Sciences, Inc.oday announced that its Board of Directors, after careful review and consideration with the assistance of the Company's management and financial…

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About Capital Connection | Capital Connection

About Capital Connection | Capital Connection

Capital ConnectionTM, one of the nation’s most respected industry conferences, brings together high-growth and innovative technology companies from some of the most noted technology…

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University of Maryland Hosts First UM Ventures Symposium on Entrepreneurship

University of Maryland Hosts First UM Ventures Symposium on Entrepreneurship

The first symposium on "the notion of entrepreneurship" by the newly formed University of Maryland (UM) Ventures was a breakthrough event for technology collaboration…

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Q1 2012 DC Venture Capital Risk Tolerance – Forward Thinking

Q1 2012 DC Venture Capital Risk Tolerance – Forward Thinking

If you raised seed capital from a DC VC last quarter you are part of an exclusive club.  Only 3 firms raised seed capital…

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Global Perspective on Regional Collaboration

Global Perspective on Regional Collaboration

On any given weekend, there are countless community events throughout the Greater Washington region, many in ethnically diverse immigrant communities.  A Korean church service,…

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