BioHealth Tech News and Events - 11/4/15
TOP STORY: Personal Genome Diagnostics Raises $21.4M Series A 
Baltimore's Personal Genome Diagnostics, a Johns Hopkins University spin-out, raises $21.4 million in a Series A round led by Maryland-based New Enterprise Associates. 
BioHealth Technology News
Rockville's Sucampo closes $250M credit facility to support its acquisition of R-Tech Ueno. 

Bethesda's Northwest Bio enters into an agreement for $30M in equity financing to support ongoing clinical studies regarding its personalized immune therapies for solid tumor cancers. 

Rockville's DrFirst secures $25M in financing from Goldman Sachs resulting in a total $42M raised during the past year to support the launch of its e-medication management solutions.

Columbia's Osiris Therapeutics announces an addition to its wound care portfolio, TruSkin.

Rockville's GlycoMimetics announces initiation of first clinical trial evaluating subcutaneous administration of Rivipansel, a potential therapy for the treatment of sickle cell disease VOC.

Rockville's Macrogenics collaborates with Merck on immuno-oncology study evaluating a combination therapy for the potential treatment for advanced gastric cancer.

Baltimore start-up Glycocept licenses novel platform technology with strong potential in cancer drug development from the University of Maryland Baltimore.

Rockville's ClearPath Development Co. partners with Astellas using research from the University of Maryland's Center for Vaccine Development and others to launch new vaccine company Nosocomial Vaccine Corp. focused on healthcare-associated infections.  

Gaithersburg's Pregmama announces first pregnancy in clinical trial to treat infertile women.

Baltimore start-up Educational and Scientific, LLC obtains exclusive license from UMB to commercialize a molecule with anticancer properties jointly discovered by ESL and UMB.

Baltimore's Fyodor equips its broad-based non-invasive, single-step Urine Malaria Test dipstick kits with cellphone technology element to boost the power of the test system. 

Germantown-based Intrexon's subsidiary ViaGen Pets successfully clones healthy kittens.

Baltimore's Sisu Global Health wins Mid-Atlantic Bio Angels 1st Pitch event. 

Frederick's Ruro releases a leading LIMS provider announces its Sciency® ELN, is now available as a subscription-based, cloud-hosted software service.

Baltimore's Agewell Biometrics and Rockville's ErgonometriX selected as members of the first cohort in the Relevant Health technology accelerator in Rockville.  

Startup NASA is a new T2 program for start-ups interested in NASA technologies. 

Johns Hopkins University creates a new center for hearing loss research and clinical care. 

Partial reimbursement for internships is available to biohealth technology companies which offer internship positions to MD Tech Connect's prescreened applicants.

NIH's Nano Startup Challenge in Cancer is open for entries until February 11, 2016.

The MD Department of Commerce makes market research resources--Frost and Sullivan, Recap, Medtrack and BioMedTracker--available to Maryland-based biohealth entrepreneurs at its offices in Baltimore and Rockville.  Please schedule appointments in advance.
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11/6-15  Maryland STEM Festival (statewide) 
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ESL CEO, Dr. Ngeh J. Toyang. 
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