Published 7/30/19 in Baltimore Business Journal The University System of Maryland has named the co-founder of SunEdison as managing director of its venture investment fund. Claire Broido Johnson will be overseeing the $10 million Maryland Momentum Fund that was launched in …
Published 7/16/19 in Arizona Republic Online ROCKVILLE, Md., July 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Researchers at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) recently received $1M from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA, part of the US Department of Defense) to advance their work developing wearable sensors …
Press Release 7/11/19 IBBR Fellow Dr. Brian Pierce (Assistant Professor, UMCP Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics) and postdoctoral associate Dr. Ragul Gowthaman recently released a new tool for researchers who study immune system proteins. The TCR3d …
Published 7/3/19 on UMB News The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) held a forum on June 19 to share the work being conducted across disciplines to better understand, treat, and modify the impact of chronic pain. (View a photo gallery on Facebook.) Held in …
Published 6/26/19 New Center for Blood Oxygen Transport & Hemostasis to Focus on Developing Diagnostics and Therapeutics with Aim to Revolutionize Emergency Medicine Steven J. Czinn, MD, The Drs. Rouben and Violet Jiji Endowed Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics …
Published 6/18/19 Accelerated regulatory pathway for first internal use product GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — gel-e Inc., announces Breakthrough Status Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its first internal-use flowable device. gel-e is developing a line of advanced hemostatic …
Published 6/17/19 on Technical.ly Baltimore The UMB spinout is one of 50 companies who will present in San Francisco this week as part of MedTech Innovator’s programming. A Baltimore medical device company is among startups participating in an accelerator focused …
Published 6/3/19 on Maryland Energy Innovation Institute Website Ion Storage Systems (ISS) announced the closing of an $8M financing round led by Alsop Louie Partners a risk-oriented venture capital firm based in San Francisco. ISS is focused on developing the most …
Published 5/29/19 on Technical.ly Baltimore Through UM Ventures’ Presidential Entrepreneurial Fellowship program, students from different schools at the university help startups move technology forward. Front row (L to R): Tida Jarjou, Yiwei Gao, Jonathan Ostrosky and Raqeeb Jamil. Back row: …
Published 5/14/19 on UMB News May 14, 2019 | By Laura Lee U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, carries a tube of naloxone spray with him everywhere he goes to emphasize one of his main public health priorities: addressing the opioid …