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When the person who successfully upended the broadcast radio industry model with the launch of Sirius XM satellite radio and then successfully challenged the drug development model to create new drugs for rare diseases now tells you to focus on bio-defense, you better pay attention.  So when Dr. Martine Rothblatt PhD, JD, the Founder and CEO of United Therapeutics Corp., appeared as the keynote speaker for BARDA’s Industry Day, it signaled this was not going to be business as usual, even for a government agency that must be ready to combat exotic diseases like Ebola, Zika and Pandemic flu.

Scientists from across the BioHealth Capital Region will collaborate on a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the Department of Defense to fight the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV), a South American-borne disease that can cause long-term neurological problems and even death.   George Mason University researcher, Kylene Kehn-Hall, PhD, lead the efforts to win the sizable grant from Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)

The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) has extended its deadline for accepting proposals from organizations interested in entering into new Joint Venture Partnerships (JVP) with the agency. As described in the Federal Register notice (Opportunity Announcement), the JV partners in collaboration with NTIS will assist Federal agencies in developing and implementing innovative ways to collect, connect, access, analyze, or use Federal data and data services.

REGENXBIO has executed a 15-year 132000 square foot lease for the building.

Novavax is a few months away from results for its two lead vaccine programs — and it’s taking steps “to enable us to launch our products as soon as possible post licensure,” CEO Stanley Erck said on a Wednesday earnings call.

The venture capital firm is aiming for $200 million.

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), an urban office REIT uniquely focused on collaborative life science and technology campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations, today announced that it has kicked off the development of a 175,000 RSF Class A property on its flagship Maryland campus, the Alexandria Life Science and Translational Research Center at 9800 Medical Center Drive, with the signing of a long-term lease with REGENXBIO Inc. (NASDAQ: RGNX), a leading clinical-stage biotechnology company seeking to improve lives through the curative potential of gene therapy. As the anchor tenant of the new sustainable office/laboratory development, REGENXBIO has executed a 15-year, 132,000 RSF lease with expansion options for its future HQ and R&D building. This strategic lease enables REGENXBIO to expand and consolidate multiple nearby sites at one campus location in the heart of the Shady Grove Life Sciences Center in Rockville, Maryland. The ground-up development project targeting LEED certification is fully entitled and is expected to be placed into service in 2020.

MdBio Foundation, a national non-profit that provides STEM education and workforce development to underserved communities, will hosts its 10th Advancing Tomorrow’s Leaders in STEM (ATLAS) college and career readiness symposium on November 9, 2018, at Montgomery College’s campus in Germantown, Md. ATLAS brings students typically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) together with Maryland’s leading employers to learn about career opportunities and foster the development of a strong pipeline of skilled STEM workers that will fuel the state’s growing science and technology sectors.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, some of the most valuable real estate in the city of 113,000 can be found clustered around the Kendall Square station along Boston’s metro, the T. This cluster of labs, research centers, and corporate offices, located within a 10-minute walk of the rail station, has been called “the most innovative square mile on earth,” according to a Boston Consulting Group report from 2009, and a birthplace of the biotech industry.

Rockville-based RegenxBio Inc. is on the move — to a site about 300 yards from its current home.