Having a COVID-19 vaccine by January is “a stretch goal,” but the head of the National Institutes of Health is gearing up for a master experiment to rapidly tell if any really work.

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A Frederick information technology company is now the exclusive provider to the federal government of licenses to a business apps platform owned by an Apple subsidiary.

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A Frederick maker of biodefense countermeasures has received a contract worth up to $67.4 million for development of a smallpox drug.

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A Rockville science and technology firm has a new federal contract with the National Institutes of Health.

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Scientists are conducting research as part of a quest to develop the first objective way to measure pain.

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The following Maryland companies were awarded government-wide acquisition contracts in information technology, each with a maximum value of $20 billion, by the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center:

Tagged with: Arch Systems LLC Delmock Technologies Inc. Index Analytics LLC Masai Technologies Corp. national institutes of health Paradyme Management Inc. Reli Group Inc. Rightdirection Technology Solutions LLC Williams Consulting LLC

Baltimore’s emocha Mobile Health won a Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Institutes of Health to study its medication adherence platform for patients with tuberculosis, the company announced. The award gives emocha $1 million for a multi-state study ...

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Advanced BioScience Laboratories Inc., a biomedical contract research and manufacturing company in Rockville, will continue its work on developing an HIV vaccine for the National Institutes of Health after  winning a contract re-competition The new contract with NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and ...

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Maryland-based companies and organizations of all sizes are contributing to the national initiative to end cancer. More than 70 commitments to new actions, such as funding additional research, making new ways of sharing data and increasing outreach efforts in communities, ...

Tagged with: cancer moonshot CosmosID Inc. johns hopkins university Joint Pathology Center MedStar Health Inc Metavivor Research and Support Inc. national cancer institute national institutes of health Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

The National Institutes of Health next month will end its parking services contract with a Maryland firm, citing “several different protests” lodged after the firm was awarded the contract last year. As a result of the contract loss, Penn Parking ...

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