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Project will support the increasing global need for “off-the-shelf” cell banks and hMSC bioprocess media products as sales continue to climb.

Hememics Biotechnologies Inc. plans to use the investment from AMVI Partners to begin clinical research for FDA submission for its flagship biotech product, a point-of-care panel to test for sexually transmitted diseases

CSL Ventures, Blu Ventures, Texas Ventures and Texas Halo Fund lead investment in Machfu’s technology that securely connects critical assets and sensors to modern web services

'It was a life saver': New London developed device for feeding tube insertions is a world first

This year, Yarina's company, Sisu Global, launched its first product designed to tackle the problem of chronic blood shortages for transfusions in certain parts of Africa. This device, called Hemafuse, can replace or augment donor blood in emergency situations.

Hackensack Meridian Health has invested in the clinical-stage biotechnology company  Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT), as part of the health network's successful innovation program, the Bear's Den.

MaxCyte, the global cell-based therapies and life sciences company, and KSQ Therapeutics, a biotechnology company using its proprietary CRISPRomics® discovery platform to achieve higher probabilities of success in drug development, announced today that the companies have entered into a new develo

Arti Santhanam, Ph.D., leads TEDCO’s $5.6M MII fund, which is a program designed to propel research from partner universities towards commercialization MII has had a strong, demonstrable impact on many important life science portfolio companies in the BHCR to date.

Attila Security, a leader in IP security, announced today that two of its advanced security solutions have achieved the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria certification.

Baltimore's Sonavex Inc. has raised $3 million in new equity funding as it gears up for a nationwide launch of its medical devices.

Rick Rudman, founder and CEO of Curbio, is expanding the business across the country with a new partnership with TTR Sotheby's International Realty.

EliteGamingLive, or EGL, is an esports league tailored to K-12 students that combines the burgeoning field of esports with educational programming to help parents and educators introduce students to STEM fields, said the company’s founder Kerwin Rent.

In it’s 9th year the Entrepreneur Expo attracted approximately 900 attendees from across the Biohealth Capital Region (BHCR) and beyond who came together to share ideas, collaborate and network. 

One company gets absorbed into a larger brand and a host of companies flower as a result. The Biohealth Capital Region’s (BHCR) cycle of creative destruction has continued with Harpoon Medical.

We’ll create a $10-billion federal fund, modeled on Maryland’s successful TEDCO fund, to co-invest in entrepreneurs of color, and defer and forgive college loans for Pell-eligible students who start and maintain businesses. 

Work continued briskly through October on preparation for Liftoff PGH 2020, with a second advisory committee meeting and the public announcement that Liftoff PGH will merge with the Pittsburgh's Life Sciences Week next year.

Over 900 of the region’s entrepreneurs, business owners, venture capitalists and legislators gathered at TEDCO’s 2019 Entrepreneurial Expo last week to participate in a full day of workshops and events that facilitated networking and entrepreneurial education.