20 August

NextStep Robotics receives $1M through NIH agreement

Published 8/20/19 in Technical.ly Baltimore Overall, the agreement is worth up to $5.4 million over four years. The company is eyeing a trial in Baltimore for its robotic device to treat a challenge commonly faced by stroke survivors. Baltimore-based NextStep Robotics received …

16 July

IBBR Researchers Awarded $1M from DTRA to Develop Portable Medical Sensors

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 …

12 July

IBBR Researchers Release New Database to Support Immunology Research

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 database contains all known …

08 July

Forum on pain shares researchers’ expertise

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 …