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What venture capitalists look for in personalized medicine investments

What venture capitalists look for in personalized medicine investments

Companies like Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) aren’t healthcare companies, but one venture capitalist believes their example can guide personalized medicine. Bob…

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Gene mapping isn’t a crystal ball for future health… yet – NY Daily News

Gene mapping isn’t a crystal ball for future health… yet – NY Daily News

Gene scans for everyone? Not so fast. New research suggests that for the average person, decoding your own DNA may not turn out to…

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Emergent’s Fuad El-Hibri, an entrepreneur at heart

Emergent’s Fuad El-Hibri, an entrepreneur at heart

Fuad El-Hibri has started a financial consulting business. He’s started telecommunications businesses. But his most challenging venture has been the Rockville biotech he helped…

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UNH Center for Venture Research: U.S. Angel Investor Market on Solid Path of Recovery in 2011

UNH Center for Venture Research: U.S. Angel Investor Market on Solid Path of Recovery in 2011

Following a considerable contraction in investment dollars in 2008 and 2009, the U.S. angel investor market continued to recover in 2011, a trend that…

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AstraZeneca links up with Amgen for treatments development

AstraZeneca links up with Amgen for treatments development

Shares in AstraZeneca ticked up after the Anglo-Swedish drugs giant announced a tie-up with biotechnology giant Amgen to develop and commercialise five treatments. Under…

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Big Pharma Cozies Up to Biotech – DailyFinance

Big Pharma Cozies Up to Biotech – DailyFinance

Pharmaceuticals have figured that out that if they can't be as innovative or nimble as biotechs, the next best option is to pay for…

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Johns Hopkins top R&D spender for 32nd straight year in 2010 – Baltimore Business Journal

Johns Hopkins top R&D spender for 32nd straight year in 2010 – Baltimore Business Journal

Surprise, surprise — Johns Hopkins University    spent more money on medical, science and engineering research than any other university in fiscal 2010. Hopkins…

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Video Interview: America’s CTO Catalyzes Health Entrepreneurship through Open Data

Video Interview: America’s CTO Catalyzes Health Entrepreneurship through Open Data

No matter how privatized healthcare is in America, at the end of the day it remains a social sustainability issue and a government concern.…

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Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship

Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship

Dingman Center Angels The Dingman Center Angels connects regional start-up companies seeking seed and early-stage funding with angel investors. Facts About Dingman Center Angels…

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Senator Barbara Mikulski: Mikulski Stands Up For Maryland’s Health Research And Innovation Economy

Senator Barbara Mikulski: Mikulski Stands Up For Maryland’s Health Research And Innovation Economy

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today spoke out in support…

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UMD Launches Entrepreneurship-Innovation Festival – Citybizlist Baltimore

UMD Launches Entrepreneurship-Innovation Festival – Citybizlist Baltimore

On March 30, the University of Maryland launches its expanding lineup of competitions and activities devoted to innovation, ingenuity and ideas: 30 Days of…

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Maryland University, VC Partner on Start-Up Accelerator | Science Business

Maryland University, VC Partner on Start-Up Accelerator | Science Business

Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland  and Wasabi Ventures, a venture capital company in San Mateo, California, have begun a new-business accelerator near the university’s…

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Tech Council of Maryland Release MdBio Inc

Tech Council of Maryland Release MdBio Inc

The MdBio Foundation, Inc., a private charitable organization that is an affiliate of the Tech Council of Maryland (TCM), today announced that it has…

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Greenleaf: “Strong future” for Maryland biotech MDbizMedia

Greenleaf: “Strong future” for Maryland biotech MDbizMedia

Peter Greenleaf Peter Greenleaf visited the Department of Business and Economic Development recently to oversee the historic tax credit auction that raised $84 million…

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Statement of Richard A. Bendis Before the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation entitled,“Fostering the U.S. Competitive Edge: Examining the Effect of Federal Policies on Competition, Innovation, and Job Growth”

Chairman Quayle and Ranking Member Edwards, thank you for the opportunity to testify before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee’s Subcommittee on Technology…

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