The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. The recent announcement of CVS’s $69 billion deal to acquire Aetna brings an insurer together with a large network of primary care providers: CVS has built more than 1,100 Minute Clinic locations inside its pharmacy stores in 33 states and the District of Columbia.
Johnson & Johnson Innovation, today announced a collaboration with the Shanghai Municipal Government, Pudong New Area Government, and Shanghai Pharma Engine Company, Ltd. to launch a new Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS in Shanghai (JLABS @ Shanghai), China. The 4,400-square-meter facility will be located in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park and will open in Q2 2019.
The Maryland Technology Development Corp. announced $800,000 in investments to six companies, including four in the Baltimore area.
State-backed TEDCO funnels hundreds of thousands of dollars into young, growing companies through its multiple investment funds and is backed by an annual budget of about $18.5 million. The organization’s seed fund portfolio continues to grow statewide.
The Inova Personalized Health Accelerator opened its doors on Wednesday, with a ribbon cutting attended by over 300 guests. Rockville, Md.–based HeMemics was named as the first of six health technology startups that the hospital system will invest in its portfolio by the second quarter of next year.
VP, Portfolio Management, Emergent BioSolutions
Jason brings nearly 25 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry leading clinical research and commercial teams developing and delivering program strategies across all phases of clinical development and marketed products.
His extensive infectious disease experience includes seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccines, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and COVID-19. Given the public health focus of vaccines and infectious diseases, he has engaged effectively with stakeholders across government agencies, public health policy bodies, market access, and advocacy organizations.
Currently, Jason is VP, Strategy Operations at Emergent BioSolutions and is responsible for corporate business planning and reporting, enterprise governance, alliance management, and other efforts related to strategy execution. Prior to joining Emergent, Jason was Managing Director, Vaccine Policy at Avalere and collaborated with several vaccine manufacturers on key public health policies to expand vaccine access. Jason has also served as the Global Commercial Head, Vaccines and Infection at AstraZeneca. His responsibilities included building global commercial strategies and tactical plans that combine marketing, medical affairs, market access and pricing, public policy, and real-world evidence generation.
Jason’s broad experience also includes ECG Management Consultants where he was a consultant specializing in government and industry-funded R&D program administration within Academic Medical Centers and Schools of Medicine.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Augustana College and a Master of Business Administration from The George Washington University. He lives in Washington, DC with this wife, Holly, and daughter, Jane, and their two golden retrievers.
Donna J Edmonds, Founder and CEO BRAINBox Solutions
Donna has 35+ years of healthcare experience, beginning as critical care nurse, and migrating to operations and senior management as a hospital administrator, GM of a large physician group practice and then recruited to industry, in clinical leadership positions.
She spent 8+ years with Baxter in Senior/VP (group) executive positions in business development, sales and marketing of clinical products aimed at improving care and reducing health care costs. She has served in Senior Executive Management roles for 10 diagnostic companies in her career and was in key leadership roles in two company exits.
She is a recognized leader in Cardiovascular Diagnostics, changing clinical practice in this space, as part of the discovery, development and commercial launch of a series of the key diagnostic products in the field.
She was a governor appointed member of the Va BioTech Research Park Authority for 9 years and a member of the Intellectual Property Board of Directors for Virginia Commonwealth University for 8 yrs.
She is a founder of Virginia Life Sciences Investments, Inc. and led the Series A investment in ImmunArray LTD, the original home of the broad portfolio of biomarkers for Neurological Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring spun out in late 2018 to BRAINBox Solutions, where she is a founding member and CEO.
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Towson University officials are envisioning the college’s new $184 million science building as essentially the exact opposite of Smith Hall, the building that currently holds most of Towson’s science classes.
Inova Personalized Health Accelerator (IPHA) has selected HeMemics Biotechnologies, Inc. (HBI) as its first portfolio company. HBI is a research and development company located in Rockville, MD that develops rapid diagnostic test platforms to detect various bacterial and viral pathogens. The company’s technology detects, within 15 seconds, the absence or presence of a specific virus or bacterium when an aqueous sample is placed on an electronic chip. HeMemics invented and patented “HemSol™,” a method to preserve cells and biological entities for an extended period of time. The preservation method in conjunction with the low cost HeMemics prototype electronic chip and portable, battery-powered reading device are designed to be deployed for Point of Care (POC) diagnostics. Typically, pathogen detection involves laboratory analysis which delays inpatient treatment or requires a return visit for outpatients.
Kurt Newman, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, Children’s National Health System joins Rich Bendis to discuss quality of care, medical innovation, and the future of healthcare. Since 1984, Dr. Newman has gone from Surgical Fellow to President and CEO at Children’s. He has championed innovations in the health system for both physical and mental health.
Listen now on iTunes , Google Play , and TuneIn.
