Millennials now make up a larger part of the population than boomers, according to the latest Census Bureau data.
People who were born between 1982 and 2000, classified as millennials, now make up more than one quarter of the population, at 83.1 million. This is compared with the 75.4 million baby boomers, generally defined as being born between 1946 and 1964.
According to one survey, the average amount of time that some employees spend on personal activities at work is somewhere between 1.5 and three hours a day. With that in mind, it’s no wonder that employers are more concerned than ever about productivity statistics. Nowadays, with technology that allow employers quantify output more closely, it’s no longer the status quo just to show up to work. Managers want employees who are engaged.
In a new global survey, the U.S. and China are tied for having the most-engaged employees—engagement being measured by how much employees believed in their work’s purpose and in their own company’s future.
The corridor between NYC and Washington DC is rich in life science talent, technical know-how and business development expertise. Although many regions throughout the country vie to attract talent and capital, the unique ecosystems that exist in the east coast’s major metropolitan cities, including Washington DC, New York, and Boston, mean that health tech founders can immediately access resources and build the strategic partnerships to support their rapid growth.
This event will focus on New York City and Washington, DC, two key areas offering a number of advantages for health tech founders. The event will be an opportunity to learn from people leading region-wide initiatives in NYC and Washington DC as well as network with peers building health technology startups. Come join us to learn more about unique opportunities and funding in the NYC and DC regions focused on supporting the transformation of healthcare.
Grotech Ventures is aiming to raise $200 million for its next fund, called Grotech Ventures III, according to an SEC filing. The Vienna firm is one of the most active venture capital investors in the area, along with firms like Revolution LLC, Columbia Capital and New Enterprise Associates. Here’s a quick look at some of its more notable investments:
More than 140 Maryland companies, organizations participated in this year’s global life sciences gathering in Philadelphia
The Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED) will be partnering with the Tech Council of Maryland (TCM) to promote the state’s life sciences industry at the 2016 BIO International Convention, June 6-9, 2016 in San Francisco. For nearly a decade, Maryland has had a significant presence at the convention, which is the largest worldwide gathering of the bioscience industry that attracts more than 15,000 attendees from 60 countries. DBED and TCM will partner on the state’s BioMaryland Pavilion, which features both Maryland companies and industry organizations, and work together to highlight Maryland companies at the convention.
At a recent workshop, more than 100 technical and business executives spoke with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Stanford University about their most pressing cybersecurity challenges. In this webcast, Nate Lesser, Deputy Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST, will share with you the five major challenges identified in that workshop and how the NCCoE plans to address them. Topics include:
A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) identifies new immune molecules that protect against deadly Marburg virus, a relative of Ebola virus. The research provides ingredients needed to develop treatments for future Marburg outbreaks.
“These antibodies attack a new site on Marburg virus we had not seen before,” said Erica Ollmann Saphire, senior author of the new study, professor at TSRI and director of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Immunotherapeutic Consortium.
Martine Rothblatt wants to transform the way we transplant organs and she doesn’t take no for an answer. When her daughter came down with a rare, life-threatening illness several decades ago, Rothblatt started researching the illness, and founded a company to develop a treatment for it.
In the mid-1990s, Rothblatt’s daughter Jenesis developed pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare condition in which the arteries in the lungs and the heart become constricted, making it hard for blood to flow through them. Doctors gave her a grim prognosis: Without a lung transplant, she had roughly three-to-five years to live.
Sensassure, a Canadian aging-tech startup, has temporarily relocated to Columbia, MD to work with Maryland-based aged-care services provider Lorien Health Systems to continue developing Sensassure’s hardware/software solution for managing urinary incontinence in the elderly. Sensassure’s product utilizes a sensor to detect urination events, which alerts nursing staff when changes are required. Sensassure offers a substantial upgrade from the current manual care processes employed by nursing staff, which lead to missed incontinence events that develop into expensive secondary conditions such as rashes and bed-sores, as well as reducing the time spent checking patients who have not had an event. While in Maryland, Sensassure’s co-founding team is physically living at one of Lorien’s assisted living communities as they begin their pilot program. You can check out their video blog here.
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