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Hopkins company raises $110 million to develop cancer test

May 30, 2019 Comments Off on Hopkins company raises $110 million to develop cancer test

Kenneth Kinzler, left, and Dr. Bert Vogelstein are researchers at Johns Hopkins and co-founders of Thrive. (Submitted photo)

A startup developing technology originating at Johns Hopkins that offers early detection of cancers launched Thursday with $110 million in Series A funding, a record Series A round for a Johns Hopkins company. Thrive Earlier Detection Corp. will develop CancerSeek, ...

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Hogan says he’d make congressional districts more contiguous

October 26, 2018 Comments Off on Hogan says he’d make congressional districts more contiguous

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, in his office at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md. Hogan is running for re-election against Democratic candidate Ben Jealous. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

While Gov. Larry Hogan says a second term would look a lot like his first, he also says Maryland voters can expect to see some significant changes — notably in how the state's congressional map is drawn.

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Judge upholds Monsanto verdict, cuts award to $78 million

October 23, 2018 Comments Off on Judge upholds Monsanto verdict, cuts award to $78 million

A Northern California judge on Monday upheld a jury's verdict that found Monsanto's weed killer caused a groundskeeper's cancer, but she slashed the amount of money to be paid from $289 million to $78 million.

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Lawsuits alleging Roundup caused cancer can move forward

July 10, 2018 Comments Off on Lawsuits alleging Roundup caused cancer can move forward

FILE - This Jan. 26, 2017, file photo shows containers of Roundup, a weed killer made by Monsanto, on a shelf at a hardware store in Los Angeles. Lawyers for a school groundskeeper dying of cancer asked a San Francisco jury during a trial Monday, July 9, 2018, to find that agribusiness giant Monsanto's widely used weed killer Roundup likely caused his disease. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Hundreds of lawsuits alleging Roundup weed killer caused cancer cleared a big hurdle Tuesday when a U.S. judge ruled that cancer victims and their families could present expert testimony linking the herbicide to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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Rockville firm gets Chinese patent for cancer technology

June 4, 2018 Comments Off on Rockville firm gets Chinese patent for cancer technology

The SnapPath Cancer Diagnostics System generates purified populations of live solid tumor cells from live, unfixed samples in an automated and standardized manner. This enables the generation of PathMap functional signaling Profiles, which can predict individual solid tumor response to targeted therapies. (Photo: Business Wire)

BioMarker Strategies LLC, a pharmaceutical research services firm based in Rockville, announced on Monday that it had received a Chinese patent for a cancer technology.

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Hogan has skin lesions removed

January 18, 2018 Comments Off on Hogan has skin lesions removed

Gov. Larry Hogan sported three bandages on his forehead following what was described as a minor procedure to remove skin lesions that were the result of sun damage. (The daily Record / Bryan P. Sears)

A morning procedure in a doctor’s office had Gov. Larry Hogan looking a little different during an afternoon news conference. Hogan sported three small, flesh-colored bandages on his forehead during a redistricting reform news conference Thursday. The bandages were the result of ...

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Bluefield Innovations funds first project, a cancer target

January 4, 2018 Comments Off on Bluefield Innovations funds first project, a cancer target

A collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and Deerfield Management to fuel early stage therapeutics has found its first project, the collaboration announced Thursday. Bluefield Innovations, founded last year, said it will fund a project pursuing a broad cancer target, based ...

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Md. cell therapy company gets patent for new cancer treatment

December 13, 2017 Comments Off on Md. cell therapy company gets patent for new cancer treatment

American Gene Technologies International Inc., a leading gene and cell therapy company in Rockville, received a patent covering ways of treating cancer.

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Price tag for NIH, FDA cancer ‘moonshot’ at $1B in Obama budget

February 1, 2016 Comments Off on Price tag for NIH, FDA cancer ‘moonshot’ at $1B in Obama budget

n this Jan. 12, 2016 file-pool photo, Vice President Joe Biden points at President Barack Obama during the president's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama is creating a new federal task force to accelerate cancer research. He's tapping Biden to chair the effort. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $755 million for cancer research in his upcoming budget, the White House said Monday, bringing the total price tag for Vice President Joe Biden’s cancer “moonshot” to $1 billion. Research into ...

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In Fox interview, Hogan talks about cancer, recovery

November 23, 2015 Comments Off on In Fox interview, Hogan talks about cancer, recovery

In his first national television interview, Gov. Larry Hogan discussed cancer, treatment and recovery on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.
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In his first national television interview Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan discussed cancer, treatment and recovery on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace. The interview, which was taped a week before it aired, focused on Hogan’s illness. He was diagnosed with ...

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