02 May

UMB-born medical device startup wins FDA clearance

Published 4/30/19 in the Baltimore Business Journal UMB-born startup CoapTech has developed a technology that allows for more efficient, less-invasive feeding tube placement for hospital patients. By Morgan Eichensehr  – Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal Apr 30, 2019, 8:50am EDT Updated a day ago Baltimore medical …

30 April

Historic Flight Delivers Organ For Transplantation

Published 4/26/19 on UMB News April 26, 2019    |   By Joanne Morrison In a first-ever advancement in human medicine and aviation technology, a University of Maryland unmanned aircraft delivered a donor kidney to surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) …

12 April

MBRC Team Wins Invention of the Year Award

Published 4/11/19 on the UM Institute for Advanced Computer Studies website   Thu Apr 11, 2019 A team of computer scientists and clinicians from the Maryland Blended Reality Center(link is external) (MBRC) has won the University of Maryland’s Invention of the Year …

28 March

Opioid-galanin receptor heteromers mediate the dopaminergic effects of opioids

Published 3/26/19 on JCI: The Journal of Clinical Investigation  Ning-Sheng Cai, César Quiroz, Jordi Bonaventura, Alessandro Bonifazi,Thomas O. Cole, Julia Purks, Amy S. Billing, Ebonie Massey, Michael Wagner,Eric D. Wish, Xavier Guitart, William Rea, Sherry Lam, Estefanía Moreno,Verònica Casadó-Anguera, Aaron D. Greenblatt, Arthur E. Jacobson, Kenner C. Rice, Vicent Casadó, Amy H. Newman, John W. Winkelman, Michael Michaelides, Eric …