Martine Rothblatt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United Therapeutics Corporation (NASDAQ: UTHR) is featured in Forbes magazine’s special centennial issue, released today, as one of The World’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds. In celebration of its 100th anniversary, Forbes magazine’s collector’s edition features essays, lessons and ideas for the next 100 years from today’s most influential business leaders around the world.
When a hospital needs to rush a delivery from a lab somewhere else in a densely populated city–for example, when a surgeon needs an urgent biopsy of a tumor in the middle of a surgery to determine how much tissue to remove, or a gunshot victim in the ER needs blood that the hospital doesn’t have in stock–that delivery can sometimes get stuck in traffic. Couriers are also expensive. In Switzerland, hospitals and labs will soon begin using drones to make those deliveries instead.
When: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
Where: 7 Locks Brewing 12227 Wilkins Avenue Rockville, MD 20852
Join BioBuzz along with Double Helix Sponsor CRB and event sponsor ISPE-CBA as we visit 7 Locks Brewing in Rockville for this special networking event. The Science of Beer was created when we learned that many scientists and bbrewers. This is our opportunity to bring our members and brewing professionals together to network and sample some of the tastiest beers. This event has a limit on registration. please don’t sign-up unless you are certain to attend!
Start here. That all-encompassing theme reverberated across Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures’ efforts to bring the benefits of discovery to the world in fiscal year 2017.
Angle plc, a liquid biopsy company, has secured a valuable partnership with molecular testing giant Qiagen and an exclusive option agreement with Queen Mary University of London. Angle is known for Parsortix, its novel system for capturing and harvesting circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood.
There’s a new “I-Team” in Baltimore City Hall.
The innovation team which was funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies earlier this year began work recently.
Top pharma execs at the marquee companies don’t really retire. Some segue quite naturally into venture capital, where their contacts and heavyweight industry reputations can facilitate the growth of little biotech companies at a time the VC crowd is enjoying a prolonged and popular boom.
The 2018 FLC Awards is now open for nominations. One of the most coveted honors in the technology transfer field, the FLC awards have been presented to over 200 federal laboratories since their inception in 1984. Many of our winning technology transfer efforts have gone on to become products and devices that are indispensable in our daily lives.
A research team will be using the funds to design a bioreactor that can extend the lifespan of an organ outside the body.
DayZero: Cybersecurity Law and Policy It is no secret that Silicon Valley and Washington have dramatically different workplace cultures and attitudes toward risk and technology. In the valley, savvy entrepreneurs look to disrupt the status quo. Meanwhile in Washington, many of our elected representatives and government personnel are stuck decades in the digital past, forced to use equipment that would be better housed in a museum. This divide inhibits the country’s ability to respond effectively to long-standing problems such as vulnerable critical infrastructure and to adapt in light of new threats such as election interference operations and loss of advanced intelligence capabilities. Washington needs to boost its technical chops and find new ways to recruit private-sector talent.
