Although startups based in California, New York, and Massachusetts have traditionally accounted for the majority of VC tech investment in the US, VCs are spurring other hotbeds of innovation across the country.
UMD IBBR – 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850
February 28, 2019
Unique opportunity to meet 1:1 with multiple SBIR program managers and experts.
SCHEDULE
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. – Networking and Registration
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Program Overviews. Agencies represented:
NSF (National Science Foundation)
NIH NIA (National Institute on Aging)
NIH NCI (National Cancer Institute)
NIH NHLBI (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
NIH NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
US Army (invited)
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Networking Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Writing Specific Aims Page
1:30 – 2 p.m. – Writing Your Phase II Commercialization Program
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – Q&A with All speakers
2:30 – 4:00 p.m. – 1:1 – Meetings with Program Managers*
Pre-Registration REQUIRED: RSVP by noon, February 26 at https://tinyurl.com/BHISBIR2019
No charge for entrepreneurs to attend • If seeking 1:1 meeting(s) please include organization(s) in RSVP.
*You do not have to participate in 1:1 meetings. However, to do so, you must attend the overview session in person.
Like a lot of medical practices, veterinarians seek to send patients a message when they’re due for a check-up, schedule appointments and keep track of medical records. Yet Marc Olcott sees a lot of those tasks still happening by phone or on paper, and thinks it should all be available digitally.
Here are this year’s 20 most promising startups in Baltimore: realLIST 2019 – Technical.ly Baltimore
For the people looking to move within a thriving tech community, it’s important to be able to easily call upon the key players.
Community members gathered Wednesday night at Hood College’s Hodson Auditorium to celebrate Frederick Innovative Technology Center Inc.’s 15th anniversary.
GetWellNetwork, the Precision Engagement health care company reaching 10 million patients annually, announced today a pivotal 2018 which will propel the company into 2019 as it continues to lead the evolution of patient engagement. The company furthered global expansion efforts, made several executive hires and acquired leading digital health company HealthLoop to catalyze growth in the ambulatory space.
Lung cancer may not be the first thought that crosses the mind when talking about breathalyzer tests. But, what if lung cancer detection were as easy as breathing into a device? That is the goal of a group of researchers from the University of Exeter who have recently taken a new approach to e-nose technology integrated with multi-layered graphene for early detection of lung cancer.
Explore the 2018 Global Digital Health 100.
The Global Digital Health 100 is one of the HealthTech industries foremost technology awards programmes, celebrating innovation and entrepreneurship. It recognises and supports health technology companies that are demonstrating the greatest potential to change the way that healthcare is delivered.
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: RNN), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies to improve patient outcomes in cancers that are difficult to treat, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application No. 15/683,408, “Fluorocyclopentenylcytosine Methods of Use.” The patent application covers the use of RX-3117 in a broad range of tumor types that over-express UCK2, the enzyme that activates RX-3117. The company expects the patent to be issued within a few months from the notice of allowance and provide protection to 2036.
The extremely active lab real estate market is a bell-weather for the upcoming hyper-competitive talent market. Based on the recent real estate transactions and related hiring forecasts, we estimate the range of new positions in the Maryland life sciences market to be between 1,150 to 2,300 new hires in 2019.