October 17, 2013
The Secret to Making Board Meetings Suck Less
“When I was a young entrepreneur, board meetings were by far the worst days of…
October 17, 2013
Under Armour launches $25,000 innovation challenge for Armour39 device – Baltimore Business Journal
Under Armour Inc. is hunting for the techies that can help the company beef up…
October 17, 2013
MedImmune leads $12.5M round for new drug aimed at big chemo market – FierceBiotech
MedImmune's venture arm has jumped in to lead a $12.5 million round for a Chapel…
October 16, 2013
QIAGEN Launches Empowered Genome Community, Invites Citizen Scientists and Researchers to Pool and Collaboratively Interpret Human Genomes – MarketWatch
QIAGEN N.V. (frankfurt prime standard:QIA) today announced the Empowered Genome Community, which is a first-of-its-kind…
October 15, 2013
Adventist HealthCare CEO: Don’t drop your company health plan – Washington Business Journal
A prominent health system CEO implored the Washington region's employers to not drop their company…
October 15, 2013
Schekman, Südhof Awarded 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI.org)
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced today that Randy W. Schekman, a Howard…
October 15, 2013
Osiris will sell transplant therapy Prochymal and other assets in deal that could top $100M – Washington Post
Osiris Therapeutics shares rose Friday morning after the company said it is selling some of…
October 15, 2013
Intelligent Redesign of Health Care – Robert S. Kaplan, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary L. Witkowski , and Heidi W. Albright – Harvard Business Review
The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with…
October 15, 2013
MedImmune acquires biotech company Spirogen for $440 million
MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, has acquired Spirogen, a privately-held…