A team of students from Virginia Tech claimed victory at the fourth annual Deloitte Foundation Cyber Threat Competition for their analysis and incident response approach to a simulated cyber event. Anirudh Bagde, Danny Colmenares, Nicholas Herman and Andy Wong, the school’s team members, each received $2,000 in scholarship money.
Did you know you are required to file for and receive a Hazardous Use Permit every year if you are storing, handling or using any hazardous substance in excess of 5 gallons or 50 pounds? (Failure to do so could result in civil and criminal penalties.) Learn how to do this at the free training session, March 8th, at the Germantown Innovation Center, hosted by BioHealth Innovation and Montgomery County’s Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Bring your laptop and materials inventory to a 15 minute 1:1 meetings with County staff and they will help you register your materials as required on the County’s website. (Pre-registration for these appointments is REQUIRED).
To schedule an appointment, send your top 3 time preferences to BHI@BioHealthInnovation.org
Meeting slots are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis:
8:45, 9:00, 9:15 a.m. – Open
9:30-11:30 a.m. – Booked
11:30, 11:45 a.m. – Open
12:00, 12:15 p.m. – Open
More information: https://Hazmat.MontgomeryCountyMD.gov
Entrepreneurship is on the rise in Hampton Roads and there’s an event to celebrate it.
757 LAUNCH, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. on March 30 at the Selden Market in Norfolk, will showcase three new resources to support area entrepreneurs and startups.
A new incubator is helping its first companies at Johns Hopkins this school year. Run by a group of undergraduate students, The Hatchery Incubator is helping undergraduate students who are starting companies.
It’s an initiative of TCO Labs, a nonprofit organization founded by students that’s looking to provide more startup resources on campus.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has acquired Healthbox, looking to tap the business accelerator for its consulting and fund management capabilities.
Silicon Valley is home to an abundance of VC firms, all of them competing to get in on the next big deal. But VCs also exist (and succeed) outside of the Bay Area. While Washington, D.C. may not be an obvious location to establish a venture capital firm, Lavrock Ventures set its sights on the political capital. The firm announced today that it has closed its first fund at $25 million to invest in early-stage startups at the intersection of enterprise software, cybersecurity, and national security.
Personal Genome Diagnostics is adding to its IP portfolio to further develop new kinds of cancer tests.
A licensing deal announced Wednesday gives the Canton-based company exclusive rights to develop and commercialize products based on a key discovery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Baltimore’s Sisu Global Health Inc. is launching its first medical device product and planning for growth in 2018.
Sisu, founded in 2014, specializes in creating health technologies to solve public health problems. The company is backed by $2.1 million in funding from various sources including local investors Camden Partners, the Abell Foundation and state-backed Maryland Technology Development Corp. It also won an investment from venture capitalist and AOL co-founder Steve Case, through his Rise of the Rest initiative.
When: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 from 4:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Where: Montgomery College Pinkney Innovation Complex: Science & Technology 20200 Observation Drive Germantown, MD 20876
Join us for our first Women in Pharma event! This community is for those in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry and is a community of mentors, resources across all levels, and provide educational sessions that will be an enabler for career success and work-life balance. All are welcome.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is undertaking an ambitious plan to assess Federal technology transfer efforts to enable greater “Return on Investment” (ROI) from the Federal Government’s $140 Billion annual investment in research and development (R&D). NIST is uniquely positioned to implement this initiative through our government-wide leadership role within the Department of Commerce, including delegated (link is external) regulatory authority and responsibility for annual reporting to the President and Congress.
