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Xconomy New York —  Perceptive Advisors, an investment firm with a long track record of life science investing across all points of development, is now stepping up to pump money into companies at the earliest stages with a new $210 million venture capital fund.

The Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund (PXV) is led by Chris Garabedian (pictured above, center), a veteran biotech executive whose experience includes stops at Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD), Celgene, and Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRPT). He’s currently the chairman and CEO of Xontogeny, a Boston-based life sciences accelerator.

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Ten individuals with ties to Johns Hopkins have been named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list, an annual celebration of young entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders. Each year, experts in 20 fields narrow down more than 15,000 nominations to a final list of 600 honorees.

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SHANGHAI, Dec. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Avantor, Inc. (NYSE: AVTR), a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the life sciences and advanced technologies & applied materials industries, today opened an innovation and customer support center in Shanghai, China to support biopharma research and technology development in the region. Avantor now has nine innovation centers worldwide.

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Four experts in life sciences and digital health development, commercialization, and investment peered into their proverbial crystal balls to offer insights on “What’s Hot in Life Sciences: A Look at the 2019 Trends and What’s on the Horizon for 2020”—the title of a panel discussion held recently at JLABS@NYC in SoHo . . .

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31 Maryland biology colleges offer certificates, associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in biological engineering and technology, physiology and anatomical sciences, and zoology and animal biology and 9 other programs.

The best biology programs in Maryland are offered by Johns Hopkins University. This biology college offers an excellent quality programs – five stars for curriculum and five stars for teaching.

Pasadena-based real estate investment trust (REIT) Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. has launched a first-of-its-kind consortium to catalyze advanced biological innovation and manufacturing.

As a founding member of this consortium of top-tier academic institutions, research hospitals and life science industry partners, Alexandria will have a seat on the board of directors alongside Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies and GE Healthcare Life Sciences, the company said in a statement.

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Elizabeth is the interim Managing Director of TEDCO’s MVF.  She brings more than 25 years of academic, government, and private sector experience in product development, technology commercialization and venture management experience to the team.  Prior to joining TEDCO, she served as President of Transition Health Ventures, a consulting firm specializing in serving the needs of the innovation community and the healthcare and life science startup companies within it.  Elizabeth also spent more than 8 years in academic venturing roles JHU and UMB.  Additionally, Elizabeth previously served as Managing Director of the MVF (2004-2006) in addition to progressively senior roles with the Fund between 2000-2004.  She started her career in San Diego in venture-backed medtech startups in product development roles after completing her Masters in Bioengineering from UC San Diego, and BSE from Duke University and Biomedical and Electrical Engineering.

Some of the nation’s top healthcare-focused venture capital firms are banding together to form an advisory council with the technology security certification provider HITRUST  to create best practices for data security for startups developing digital health technologies.

In the heart of Montgomery County, Maryland’s premier biotech district there is a 42,000 SF facility with 17,000 SF vacant lab/office suite located at 9900 Medical Center Drive. The newly delivered and available lab space was designed to foster collaboration and learning with an open layout, a welcoming courtyard and an inside common area that is shared with other local tenants. 

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Maryland Technology Development Corp. has tapped an interim leader for the Maryland Venture Fund, which was the subject of a damaging state audit report and subsequent reform legislation earlier this year.

Elizabeth Good Mazhari has been named the interim managing director of TEDCO’s Maryland Venture Fund or MVF. The appointment comes as TEDCO is finalizing new governing regulations that it hopes will meet legislators’ expectations of how it should be distributing state funds to Maryland startups. New investments through the MVF have been halted since June, while TEDCO enacts legislative-directed reforms and works to fill executive positions left open by a slew of recent resignations. Former MVF Managing Director Andy Jones announced his departure from TEDCO in May.