Incyte Corp. is expanding its clinical collaboration with MedImmune, AstraZeneca’s global biologics research and development arm.
As part of the expanded agreement, the two companies will evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a combination therapy — featuring one product from each company — in treating patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
Researchers at Stanford University are developing a linear accelerator that is the size of a chip — instead of two miles long — and it could herald a medical breakthrough. Linear accelerators are commonly used for external beam radiation treatments for patients with cancer. However, only a handful have been constructed as they are very expensive to build, maintain and operate. Stanford’s accelerator on a chip could provide every hospital with access to this life-saving technology.
Million Women Mentors-Maryland (MWM·MD) is addressing the underrepresentation of women in the STEM fields by building an expansive network of mentors throughout the state. Since its founding in 2017, the organization has worked to identify individual and corporate partners whose experience and knowledge positively influence young female students to pursue and persist in STEM careers. This year, MWM·MD has already surpassed its goal of 5,000 mentors, and is now pledging to secure 10,000 mentors by the end of 2017. To kick off this effort, MWM·MD is inviting individual mentors and corporate sponsors who want to learn more about mentoring to its Nov. 6 summit in Baltimore.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) plays a role in three of the six teams that successfully competed for three-quarters of a million dollars from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) to support incubator ideas.
The Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Lab announced its 2017-18 cohort Thursday, introducing the 10 promising nonprofit ventures that will receive business and financial support over the next six months. From November through April, these 10 fledgling startups will receive funding, mentorship, training, and office space to help them develop into sustainable ventures.
Danaher has acquired IDBS, a U.K.-based scientific informatics company, to round out its life sciences portfolio. The company hopes that IDBS’ data management, analytics and modeling platforms will accelerate the pace of drug discovery and development.
In what has become an annual tradition, MedImmune and BioHealth Innovation Inc., have brought the BioHeath Capital Region together for the 4th Annual BioBowl at Bowlmore Rockville. Over 40 companies were invited to compete against each other for the BioBowl Trophy for the top team, and to avoid “winning” the infamous Rubber Chicken Trophy for the most “challenged” performance. The team from Qiagen collectively scored higher than all others and had their name added to the BioBowl Trophy for 2017.
The event is split in half with attendees playing with their company teams for the 1st hour, and then being mixed-up into random teams to create a fun networking opportunity. BioBowl was born out of an early CEO dinner for the BioHealth Capital Region with the goal of bringing together the community for a fun event that also helps companies build relationships with each other.
Caption: Jarrod Borkat of MedImmune and Rich Bendis of BHI presenting the Champions Trophy to Qiagen
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Expert advisory firm Newport Board Group, LLC continues to expand locally, announcing today the admission of Martin Rosendale, a life sciences entrepreneur and executive as a member of the LLC and Partner in its Mid-Atlantic practice.
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It’s time for your annual checkup! A phlebotomist will conveniently visit you at home in the early morning and take your blood (while you are lying relaxed, since it makes a difference to your metabolome if you are lying or sitting), possibly also collecting samples of saliva as well as urine and stool samples your intelligent toilet was sampling and preserving for later microbiome, metabolome, proteome analytics . The service for onsite blood sampling and the technology is there; see IggBo video.
