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 …

24 February

Forecasts of the Future

Revolutionary Virtual Reality System Gives 3D Vantage of Satellite Data Published 2/21/20 on MarylandToday Glancing out the window tells you less about the weather than stepping outside. The same principle might also apply to meteorologists who rely only on computer …

12 February

ARMR Systems raises $750K, with funding from Maryland investors

The University of Maryland BioPark-based company moved to Baltimore in 2017. Now it’s looking to continue growing a team as it moves its device to market. Published 2/10/20 on Technical.ly Baltimore Two years ago, ARMR Systems moved to Baltimore to base development …

05 February

Revealing the Key to Hypervirulent C. difficile Toxin Delivery

January 31, 2020 — The opportunistic bacterial pathogen, Clostridioides difficile, is the leading cause of hospital-acquired infection in the US, afflicting 500,000 individuals and causing an estimated 15,000 deaths each year. In addition to the challenge of drug-resistant infections, many C. difficile symptoms are …