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Maryland is home to one of the largest life science clusters in the nation. According to the Maryland Department of Commerce, the State has nearly 2,300 life science companies and 476 private research and development biotechnology firms (NAICS 541714), which represents 5.3% of this U.S. industry.

Some of the nation’s most important research occurs within Maryland at National Institute of Health (NIH), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), federal laboratories, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Maryland. In fiscal year 2018, Maryland received $1.5 billion from NIH for biomedical research, behind four other states (NIH 2018 report):

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D&D Pharmatech, a clinical-stage global biotech company, features a strong research emphasis, with focus on neurodegenerative brain disorders led by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine neuroscientists, including Ted M. Dawson, MD, PhD, who is a globally recognized authority in this domain.

The company’s founder Lee Seulki, PhD, 45, also working at the university as a radiology professor, is a promising medical scientist who is the youngest `Highly Cited Researcher` named by Clarivate Analytics in 2017.

Ron Kurz, Sr. Director & GM at Canon Virginia, Inc., joins BioTalk to discuss his career, growth opportunities, and Canon’s role in the BioHealth Capital Region

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CareDx, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNA) – The Transplant Company™ focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of clinically differentiated, high-value healthcare solutions for transplant patients and caregivers – today announced that its non-invasive organ transplant surveillance solutions are being used to help monitor post-operative graft health in the world’s first successful heart xenotransplantation. A genetically modified pig heart was successfully transplanted into a patient at the University of Maryland Medical Center on January 7, 2022.

Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. institutions in total National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for federal fiscal year 2021, with more than $820 million in awards, $824,856,274 to be exact. The rest of the top ten institutions were:

After struggling through COVID-19 vaccine production woes in 2021, Emergent BioSolutions has another surprise for its investors in early 2022. 

Last month, Emergent projected revenues of $1.4 billion to $1.5 billion for this year. Now, the company has dropped the figure to $1.3 to $1.4 billion. 

Why the adjustment?

In its quarterly report, Emergent credited its decision to undergo maintenance on its troubled Baltimore Bayview facility “earlier than anticipated,” and to expand the project to set the facility up for “future non-pandemic work.”