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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Johns Hopkins University and Deerfield Management will collaborate on a $65 million research initiative to develop early stage therapeutics. The collaboration, Bluefield Innovations, will over five years support the commercialization of early-stage therapeutic research conducted at Hopkins. Additional funding will ...

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The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission has approved awards of more than $8.5 million for companies and research institutes to address more than 20 diseases and conditions. The money will be spread among six companies and six research institutes in ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Mosquito season may be waning in Maryland, but Zika research here is in full force. Although Maryland accounts for fewer than 3 percent of the Zika cases nationwide, there are at least five sites in Maryland researching the ...

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A neuroscientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has scored a $300,000 grant to fund her autism research over the next three years. Dr. Gul Dolen, an assistant professor of neuroscience at the medical school, was named one ...

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Faced with a steady decline in federal research grants, Johns Hopkins University has opted to funnel an additional $15 million into faculty research over the next three years.

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The Neuro Startup Challenge aims to create new startup companies that could help commercialize brain-related inventions developed by the NIH.

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Two Maryland universities are partnering with a nonprofit research organization to operate a new federally funded research center dedicated to cybersecurity.

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The Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation, of Highland, last week announced over $100,000 in awards to support health policy research, giving grants to five graduate researchers at the Johns Hopkins University, University of Virginia, University of North Carolina and Old ...

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Massive open online courses, called MOOCs, are effective if students actually work hard, according to a new study and Captain Obvious.

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