05 May

ALEI Helps Guide Farmers Through COVID-19

Published 5/4/20 on UMB News When Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced the closure of all non-essential businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Laura Beth Resnick immediately began to worry. Resnick owns Butterbee Farm, a 5-acre farm in Baltimore County that …

04 May

Massachusetts public company buys startup with ties to UMB

Published 5/1/20 in the Baltimore Business Journal A University of Maryland, Baltimore-born medical device startup that has been developing a kind of artificial lung was acquired by publicly traded health technology firm Abiomed. Abiomed (NASDAQ: ABMD) announced Thursday its acquisition …

01 May

UMB-born medical device company Breethe acquired by Abiomed

The Halethorpe-based company’s lung-like technology will become part of the product portfolio of Massachusetts’ Abiomed.      Published 5/1/20 on Technical.ly Baltimore Breethe, the medical device company founded by renowned University of Maryland School of Medicine surgeon and professor Dr. Bartley Griffith, has been acquired …

21 April

USM Establishes COVID Research & Innovation Task Force

Published 4/20/20 by USM Group Will Partner USM Expertise with Business & Innovation Community to Assist State in Current Crisis Baltimore, Md. (April 20, 2020) – University System of Maryland (USM) Chancellor Jay A. Perman is assembling a task force to leverage …

25 February

IBBR researchers awarded $850K from NSF

Published 2/25/20 in The Daily Record Researchers at the Rockville-based Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR)  received a $850,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance the understanding of how fungi like powdery mildew infect plants including food source crops and how …

25 February

UMD program teaches cybersecurity law to non-lawyers

Published on 2/24/20 in The Daily Record With cybersecurity scandals becoming increasingly prevalent — the 2017 Equifax data breach is just one example — the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law is providing non-lawyers with the legal …