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 …
Published 5/14/19 on Technical.ly Baltimore Led by the Abell Foundation, the round included local investors. The company’s robotic device is designed to treat a common mobility challenge encountered by stroke survivors. NextStep Robotics’ Brad Hennessie speaking at Baltimore Innovation Week …
Published 5/6/19 on Technical.ly Baltimore By Stephen Babcock / REPORTER The company’s device uses ultrasound, which will allow a feeding tube to be placed without need for a surgical setting. With regulatory approval, it’s taking a key step toward commercialization. CoapTech team …
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 …
Published 4/30/19 on New York Times on line By Karen Zraick April 30, 2019 A custom-made drone delivered a kidney this month to a Maryland woman who had waited eight years for a lifesaving transplant. While it was only a short test …
Published 4/29/19 on Technical.ly Baltimore On April 19, a kidney was flown over Baltimore and successfully transplanted into a patient. University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore was the site of the drone delivery of an organ used in a transplant, …
Published 4/29/19 on UMCP’s Maryland Today Drones Could Make Transplants Faster, Safer, Cheaper, Doctors and Engineers Say An unmanned aerial system carried a human kidney for transport at the University of Maryland Medical Center earlier this month; the team …
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) …