BioHealth News
Technical.ly: ETC, One of Baltimore’s Oldest Entrepreneurship Incubators, Names Arti Santhanam as New Executive Director
After a period of leadership transition and strategic planning, the organizations behind one of Baltimore’s longest-standing entrepreneurial communities have appointed a new executive director…
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Haystack Oncology and TriSalus Life Sciences Enter Research Collaboration
BALTIMORE, Jan. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Haystack Oncology, a Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) company and developer of best-in-class personalized MRD technology (Haystack MRD™), has entered a research…
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UMB Researchers Aim to Enhance Vaccines with $9.4M NIH Grant
January 16, 2024 - By Laura Lee - Principal Investigator Robert K. Ernst, PhD, the Dr. Paul and Mrs. Jean Corcoran Endowed Professor and chair of the Department of Microbial…
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STEMCELL Technologies Announces Acquisition of Gaithersburg’s Propagenix Inc.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STEMCELL Technologies, Canada’s largest biotechnology company, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Propagenix Inc.—a Maryland-based biotechnology company focused on developing…
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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: AI in Drug Discovery: Trust, but Verify
Tiffany Yesavage, PhD - January 11, 2024 - The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to develop new drugs is in its infancy. Nevertheless, AI-designed drugs have…
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Virginia Catalyst Announces Grant Round 15 Awarded Projects
The Virginia Catalyst, also known as the Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation (VBHRC), today announced that it has awarded $2.2 million in grants to…
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BioHealth Innovation, Inc.’s Rich Bendis Named Finalist for the Community Builder Award in the 2023 BioHealth Capital Region Annual Awards
Rockville, MD – BioHealth Innovation, Inc. (BHI) is proud to announce that our Founder, President & CEO, Rich Bendis, has been named a finalist…
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Luminoah’s Receives $463,000 Grant from Virginia Catalyst
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – January 11, 2024 – Luminoah Inc., a medical technology company dedicated to improving the standard of care for patients requiring enteral nutrition,…
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REGENXBIO Announces Positive Interim Data from Phase II AAVIATE® Trial of ABBV-RGX-314 for the Treatment of Wet AMD Using Suprachoroidal Delivery
ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- REGENXBIO Inc. (Nasdaq: RGNX) today announced positive interim data from the Phase II AAVIATE® trial of ABBV-RGX-314…
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BioHealth Innovation, Inc. (BHI) Welcomes Peter Ronco as a New Member of the Board of Directors
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, January 16, 2024– BioHealth Innovation, Inc. (BHI), a leading public-private non-profit organization dedicated to advancing healthcare innovation in the BioHealth Capital Region,…
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Children’s National Novel AI platform matches cardiologists in detecting rheumatic heart disease
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to detect rheumatic heart disease (RHD) with the same accuracy…
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BioHealth Innovation Insights from the 2024 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
BioHealth Innovation (BHI) was prominently represented at the 2024 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, with several Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs) in attendance. The insights gathered by…
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Precigen Receives Orphan Drug Designation for PRGN-2012 for the Treatment of Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis from the European Commission
GERMANTOWN, Md., Jan. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Precigen, Inc. (Nasdaq: PGEN), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of innovative gene and cell therapies…
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Rockville’s NeoImmuneTech Welcomes a New President for its Development and Business
ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NeoImmuneTech, Inc. (NIT or "NeoImmuneTech"), a clinical-stage T cell-focused biopharmaceutical company, today announces the appointment of Luke Oh, Ph.D.,…
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Bio.News: With the new COVID surge, are we really post-pandemic?
January 9, 2024 / By Clary Estes - National wastewater viral activity levels for COVID-19 have been very high since December. (It wasn’t your imagination that everyone seemed sick over…
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