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MacroGenics shares climb following $80M IPO

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Shares of MacroGenics are surging in Thursday midday trading after the biotechnology company raised $80 million in its initial public offering.

MacroGenics sold 5 million shares of stock for $16 per share. It had expected to sell 4 million shares for $14 to $16 each. The $80 million total does not include expenses or underwriting discounts.

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The $100M Club: Where the Major League Life Sciences Companies Are – Xconomy

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People love to rank U.S. biotech clusters. Most of these reports are full of data on venture financing, patents, jobs, and NIH funding. But many are riddled with flawed and biased methodology, and are usually designed to push a political agenda.

These rankings, which many people take at face value, have been irritating me for a long time. So last week, I decided to ask a few different questions in order to compare the relative strength of biotech hubs we cover at Xconomy.

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How Obamacare could boost entrepreneurship – VentureBeat

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Here’s what we know about the Affordable Care Act: 32 million Americans who would otherwise be uninsured will now have coverage. What you might not know is that Obamacare could also boost entrepreneurship by decoupling healthcare from employment.

How would that work? Existing research estimates that universal health insurance coverage could increase self-employment by as much as 3.5 percent. The reality is that many would-be risk-takers stay with their employers in large part due to the assurance of health insurance, in what economists refer to as “job lock,” or “entrepreneurship lock.” But, this pressure to be employed by a larger company is loosening as the Affordable Care Act makes it easier and less expensive to purchase individual coverage. Now, hopeful entrepreneurs can go out on their own in a far more efficient allocation of their skills, without gambling their own health coverage, or that of their family.

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UMD Researchers Are Developing a Robot That Crawls into Brains and Zaps Tumors – InTheCapital

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If UMD researchers are well on their way to creating a robot that can wiggle through the brain to root out the tumors deep within, then anything is possible. Plankton crawled through Spongebob’s cranium and now Dr. J. Marc Simard, a neurosurgeon at the University of Maryland School of Medicine; Jaydev Desai, a roboticist at the University of Maryland; and Rao Gullapalli, a radiologist, believe they’re developing something that can do the same.

It was Dr. Simard who fist came up with the idea after watching a show on TV featuring plastic surgeons using sterile maggots to root out damaged tissue from a patient. “It sounds strange, but it’s a real thing,” he said in an interview with NPR. That’s when the lightbulb went off. “If I could train maggots to resect brain tumors I would. I can’t do that, so robotic maggots are the next best thing.”

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Mind the Gap Registration, Washington – Eventbrite

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM (EST)

Join business, government and technology leaders for a high-level conversation on the transformation of health care through technology and innovation. Bloomberg Government’s first annual health care summit, “Mind the Gap: Connecting Health Care Policy with Next Century Innovation,” will convene health care innovators, medical professionals, and government officials who are helping to redesign U.S. health care during a time of innovation.

Panelists

  • The Honorable Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer, The White House
  • John Sculley, former CEO, Apple
  • Elli Kaplan, CEO and Co-Founder, Neurotrack
  • Dr. Keith Dunleavy, President, CEO and Chairman, Inovalon, Inc.

Join the conversation: #BGOVHealth  

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The Health IT Explosion: What Big Providers Want: Value Proposition, Pricing & Closing the Deal! – BHI Sponsored

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October 16, 2013 at 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Johns Hopkins – Montgomery County Campus

The National Capitol Area Local Chapter of SoPE in concert with the JHU Carey Business Schoo, MedChi, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Center for Biotechnology Education, and the Medical Society of Northern Virginia present:

“The Health IT Explosion”  What Big Providers Want: Value Proposition, Pricing & Closing the Deal!

Presenters:

Pete Celano, is an MBA from UVa, and has been in Digital Health for ten years. He was a co-founder of a start-up in Remote Patient Monitoring called BeClose.com (McLean, VA) and has been consulting primarily for big providers such as MedStar where he focuses on identifying solutions that Improve Outcomes, Reduce Costs, Enhance Revenue and Extend Access. He’s also consulted in Mobile Personal Emergency Response Systems, Home Testing for Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Holter Monitors, GERD drugs and Infusion Therapy.

Anand Iyer, PhD, currently serves as President and Chief Operating Officer of WellDoc Inc. WellDoc is a healthcare company that utilizes technology-based solutions to improve diabetes and other chronic disease outcomes and enhance a patient’s quality of life while systematically reducing healthcare costs. Prior to WellDoc, he was the leader of the global wireless solutions practice at PRTM Managment Consultants.

Joe Peterson, MD, is currently CEO of Specialists On Call (SOC), the nation’s premier provider of specialty physician consultations delivered via teleconferencing. Most recently a partner in United Westlabs, a hospital services company. Dr. Peterson has served on the Board of Directors of the Global Health Council, as a jurist for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awards in public health, and on the Board of Directors of the Aids Action Coalition.

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Bioscience Networking Reception with Christopher P. Austin, M.D.

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October 29th, 6:00pm

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Rockville, MD

Please join us for an enhanced networking reception with leaders from the Mid-Atlantic Region’s life science community. Take time to network with your peers and make new connections. After networking, Christopher Austin  will give a short overview of the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS).  He will speak more specifically on what NCATS will be doing, the goals and the impact of the life science community in terms of collaboration.

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BioMaryland Biotechnology Development Awards

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Are you a Maryland biotechnology company or research organization working to commercialize a technology/product?  

Apply by October 17th for the 2013-2014 BioMaryland Biotechnology Development Awards. 

The BioMaryland Center annually awards $50,000-200,000 through its Biotechnology Development program to a fund life sciences projects which advance the movement of research and development toward commercialization. 

More than $5 million has been distributed to 28 organizations through the Biotechnology Development Awards program since its inception in 2010. The program has yielded multiple success stories—including a university spin-out and a local company securing $25M in funding while quadrupling the number of its employees.

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Digital Health Conference | The Digital Health Conference is an exclusive gathering of health IT leaders to network, innovate and discuss new technologies.

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The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC, pronounced “Nice”) is a not-for-profit organization, working to improve healthcare for all New Yorkers through health information technology (health IT).

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, in partnership with the New York State Department of Health, NYeC receives funding from state and federal grants to serve as the focal point for health IT in the State of New York. NYeC works to develop policies and standards, to assist healthcare providers in making the shift to electronic health records, and to coordinate the creation of a network to connect healthcare providers statewide. The goal of NYeC is that no patient, wherever they may need treatment within the State of New York, is ever without fast, secure, accurate, and accessible information.

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