Tag Archives: medicine

Battelle has elected Howard University President and the Charles R. Drew Professor of Surgery Dr. Wayne Frederick to the company’s board of directors. “Wayne’s strong background in healthcare and medical education aligns so well with Battelle’s mission and strategic priorities,” said Lou Von Thaer, president and CEO of Battelle and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched an effort to develop new psychotherapeutic medicine for the mental health of servicemen and veterans.

Rob Johnson, owner of Portland, Ore.-based marketing and communications consulting firm Fine Tuning, wrote in a Federal News Network commentary piece published Wednesday about the Aurora exascale computing system of the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and how it could help advance research across medicine, engineering, chemistry and other scientific disciplines.

Leidos has received a potential five-year, $57.7M contract to help a U.S. Navy center study how deployments and career-related experiences affect the health of U.S. service members and their families.

ElectroCore, a provider of bioelectronic medicine, has received a five-year contract to distribute a hand-held medical therapy product across the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, Bureau of Prisons, Indian Health Services and Public Health Services. The company said Wednesday it will provide its gammaCore technology to more than …

The U.S. Army is seeking information on current good manufacturing processes for a cryopreserved platelets product to aid the Army Medical Materiel Development Activity’s endeavors to treat severe hemorrhage caused by combat trauma. USAMMDA seeks to develop medical products through collaborations with commercial partners in efforts to protect military combatants as part …

James Winnefeld, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has joined Perthera as a senior adviser of the McLean, Virginia-based precision medicine company. The 37-year Navy veteran will advise Perthera on business matters, the company said Tuesday. “I have had the opportunity to become a board member or a …

Wanda Gamble oversees the health and analytics unit at Battelle as a vice president for the nonprofit science and research organization whose federal healthcare clients include the departments of Health and Human Services and Veterans Affairs, HHS components and the Military Health System. She joined Columbus, Ohio-headquartered Battelle in 2012 after three years at …

Lockheed Martin has awarded Kitron a multimillion dollar contract to provide integrated backplane assembly for F-35 jets under low-rate initial production lot 11. Kitron said Tuesday it will manufacture, test, maintain and repair the IBA in F-35s as part of the manufacturing license agreement with Lockheed. “After years of supplying for the earlier stages …

Pfenex Inc. and the Department of Health and Human Services have begun  clinical research for a new anthrax vaccine under a 30-month, $15.9 million contract. The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority will lead the project to develop the experimental vaccines Px563L and RPA563, which target the anthrax cell-binding protein, HHS said …

Maximus has donated at least $29,000 to Project Hope to aid the non-profit organization in its health relief efforts in Nepal after the recent two earthquakes that struck the country. Richard A. Montoni, Maximus CEO and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, said Tuesday the company aims to “support …

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals will experiment on a new drug to treat the Ebola virus under a potential $35 million contract with the Department of Health and Human Services. Studies on the experimental drug will occur over the next 18 months in collaboration with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority prior to …

Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement with two oil and natural gas producers to evaluate the potential of a Lockheed-designed membrane technology to filter wastewater at oil drilling sites, Reuters reported Friday. David Alexander writes Daniel Heller, vice president for sustainability technologies at Lockheed, said the company has been exploring the Perforene …

YarcData and Selventa have teamed up to use the former’s data analytics tool to help pharmaceutical businesses identify drugs, discover new medicines and speed up deliveries. Selventa will use YarcData’s Urika platform designed for real-time data searches to deliver personalized medicine to patients, the companies said Tuesday. “With 50 percent …

Deloitte and Intermountain Healthcare have jointly introduced an analytics application designed to help life sciences customers develop medicines using clinical data. PopulationMiner will work to gather information about large volumes of clinical, financial and operational data stored in Intermountain’s database for patient-outcome analysis, the companies said Wednesday. The companies will release …