21 June

Steptoe’s Susan Esserman Receives Chambers Women in Law Award

Published 6/20/17 in Public. (June 20, 2017, Washington, DC) – Steptoe partner and former Deputy US Trade Representative Ambassador Susan Esserman has received the 2017 Chambers Women in Law Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Advancing Gender Diversity (Private Practice).’ Ms. …

21 June

Maryland Ag Law Initiative Awarded Grant for Food Safety Programs

Published 6/18/17 in Lancaster Farming The University of Maryland’s Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, and the Agriculture Law Education Initiative was recently awarded a $14,197 Northeast SARE Partnership Grant to create and administer on-farm food safety educational programs during …

16 June

Cellth Systems has a device to lasso some sinister cancer cells

Published 6/16/17 in Techical.ly Baltimore The company recently signed a licensing deal with UM Ventures. Cellth Systems recently reached a licensing deal with UM Ventures to expand development of its medical device that can help provide insight into how to treat cancer …

06 June

IBBR faculty win two Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) grants

Published on 6/5/17 on PR Newswire ROCKVILLE, Md., June 5, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been awarded two $115,000 grants to commercialize technologies based on improving protein-based therapeutics utilizing a novel biopolymer and an …

06 June

This startup is developing a vaccine for staph infections

Published on 6/5/17 in Technical.ly/Baltimore Serenta Biotechnology recently completed a licensing deal with the University of Maryland, Baltimore Drug companies poured lots of resources into seeking a vaccine for staph infections, but have yet to succeed. In Maryland, a startup is …

19 May

Bringing virtual reality to medical treatment

Published 5/19/17 in the Baltimore Sun With a futuristic headset wrapped around her head, Dr. Sarah Murthi looks as if she is ready to play a video game. But the surgeon at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, dressed in pink scrubs, …