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Shuffling DC-area biotechnology resources

January 13, 2014 Comments Off Posted in: General Biotechnology

In the wake of the repositioning of Maryland’s Shady Grove Incubator from biotechnology to cyber security, Virginia has stepped up with a new biotechnology incubator. The Prince William Science Accelerator, located adjacent to George Mason University, will be the only public-private commercially available property featuring wet laboratory spaces in the Northern Virginia region for the life […]

"Guardian of the Genome" Therapies – A New Golden Age for Cancer R&D?

January 7, 2014 2 Comments Posted in: General Biotechnology

This is a guest post from Susan K Finston, President of Finston Consulting. Do you have a response to Susan’s post? Respond in the comments section below. Last April, I wrote here about the paradox of cancer research funding where over $100 billion in R&D funding for genomic targeting of cancer tumors has yielded only modest gains for […]