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Join BioBuzz as we partner with BioIT Solutions to celebrate their 10th Anniversary at Growlers in Gaithersburg on November 16, 2016. BioIT Solutions offers a range of services from enterprise systems built on their 1Platform4 Suite for advanced computational, workflow, and data management systems to IT strategy, architecture and management consulting. The 1Platform Suite consists of a software foundation on which various highly configurable modules are assembled and tailored to each client’s specifications and needs.  

The company was founded by IT experts who have worked in the biotechnology sector for over 20 years in a variety of information-technology capacities, including senior positions as CIO, and directors of Bioinformatics, Quality Systems and Clinical Systems at companies including Human Genome Sciences (now part of GlaxoSmithKline). The breadth of our experience makes us an ideal partner for early-stage companies, as well as those with legacy systems in need of modernization.

Come to the “Before Party” of the Biopark’s monthly Science in the City Happy Hour! Join us for a tour then you are welcome to join us at SitC Happy Hour. Alternatively, if you are visiting us from outside of Baltimore, come during low traffic hours in the middle of the day and have lunch on us. 

This Open House is designed for biotech professionals that are considering backup storage where a power outage or equipment failure could prove devastating to your initiatives. We are a boutique biorepository that work with some of the biggest names in Biotech to protect their biomaterials from equipment failure hazards.  

The Maryland Department of Commerce has an opportunity for you to soft land in the Hague Security Delta (HSD) — the largest security cluster of Europe — providing you with access to the full EU market.

Eric Hoffman, PhD, writes a lot of grants, proposals and papers. A lot. As Professor and Associate Dean of Research at Binghamton University following stints at George Washington University, Harvard Medical School, and University of Pittsburgh, Dr Hoffman is used to writing a lot.

He also writes grants and proposals for his other job as CEO of Reveragen BioPharma – a small biotech company that has slowly developed a drug to treat boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

MasterPeace Solutions Ltd., a cybersecurity contractor in Columbia, opened a new accelerator Thursday to support and grow startups founded internally by company employees.

Fri, December 9, 2016 – 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM EST

Montgomery Community Media in partnership with the Maryland/DC District Export Council, the US Commercial Service, the Maryland Department of Commerce, and the Small Business Administration present a three-hour program on the challenges and opportunities facing companies going global.    The program will feature 3 panels covering key aspects of international trade, including trade finance and local resources that facilitate trade. Speakers include government executives as well as CEOs who have successfully taken their companies international.

The most interesting aspect of Foundation Medicine (NASDAQ:FMI) is that, last year, cancer giant Roche (OTCQX:RHHBY) paid $50 per share to buy a 56% stake in the company. Bill Gates and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Ventures are also owners in this genomic testing company. However, right now, the stock is trading at $22.50, about half that Roche number.

Were all these smart people wrong? Did the M&A decision makers at Roche and the analysts working for Bill Gates and Google Ventures not do their homework? Or are we missing something here?

Will big data cure cancer?

While there’s a lot of breathless talk about the potential of big data to do just that, Greg Simon, the Executive Director of the White House’s Cancer Moonshot Taskforce, is a skeptic–at least for now.

The cofounders of healthcare cybersecurity startup Protenus are providing insight to a think tank that focuses on protecting critical infrastructure from attacks.

Robert Lord and Nick Culbertson, who launched the company through Dreamit Health Baltimore after meeting in medical school at Johns Hopkins, were named fellows with the D.C.-based Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology.