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LOCATION: Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR), 9600 Gudelsky Dr., Rockville, MD 20850

TIME: Thursday, November 30, 2017 – 3:00pm to 5:00pm

NIIMBL was formed to leverage a $70 million cost-shared agreement sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) into a $270 million public-private partnership to promote innovative technologies in bio-manufacturing in America. This information session will provide an overview of NIIMBL and explain how your organization can get involved!

Imagine walking into your doctor appointment and not only receiving a thoroughly researched diagnosis, but a menu of treatment options that match your condition, lifestyle and health goals.

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is set to begin construction on a new building that will be the Laurel-based facility’s largest.

Until recently, serial entrepreneur Naveen Jain’s most ambitious project was Moon Express, a literal moonshot that aims to land a rocket on our cratered neighbor and use its resources to make other planets livable for humans. His newest mission feels just as profound: create a world without chronic disease.

The University System of Maryland (USM) institutions have released a “Statement Supporting Open Access Dissemination of Scholarship,” a joint statement created by the university libraries of all 12 USM campuses. Councils representing the faculty, students, and the presidents of USM’s universities have collectively endorsed the statement. The statement explains the potential benefits to researchers who choose to make their works “freely available online either immediately upon completion, or within specified limited periods.”

Construction for the biomedical sciences building at the Universities at Shady Grove campus is on schedule, and county leaders are looking forward to landing state funds for new academic programs at the facility.

The JLABS: 5 Years of Innovation report quantifies the impact that JLABS and its companies have had on the innovation ecosystem during the past five-years, including investments raised, jobs created and diversity of leadership.

Want to boost your brain power? Researchers at Johns Hopkins think they have a solution.

There are countless programs out there claiming to help improve your brain function. To date, none of them have been proven to be effective. But researchers at Johns Hopkins recently compared two exercises thought to improve brain power, specifically your working memory (not your IQ), which can help you handle a number of work and school-related tasks easier.

The company is working on a therapy for pancreatic cancer using nanotechnology.

OpGen, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPGN) today announced that it has been awarded a contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop smartphone-based clinical decision support solutions for antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) and infection control in low- and middle-income countries. The one-year $860,000 award began September 30, 2017 and funds development and evaluation of cloud-based mobile software. OpGen will work with partners Teqqa, LLC and Universidad El Bosque (UEB) of Bogota, Colombia led by Maria Virginia Villegas, M.D., M.Sc.