August 1, 2016: All Points, Maryland – Today Startup Maryland announced dates (September 10 – October 8) and the rough route for the STRT1UP Road Show, the fifth annual state-wide tour and celebration of entrepreneurship and high-growth innovation-centric startup companies.
Roche ($ROG) and Inovio Pharmaceuticals ($INO) had hoped to develop immunotherapies to treat prostate cancer and hepatitis B when they first partnered in 2013. But now that dream is officially dead as Roche has returned the second of two candidates and discontinued its partnership with Inovio.
RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCQB: RGRX) (“the Company” or “RegeneRx”), a clinical-stage drug development company focused on tissue protection, repair and regeneration, today announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a Method of Achieving a Thymosin Beta 4 Concentration in a Human Patient. The patent covers treating a patient with a desired concentration of Thymosin Beta 4 (Tβ4) over a period of time, as well as treating a patient by maintaining a desired concentration of Tβ4 in a pharmacologically effective range. The patent expiry will be in late 2031, or longer depending on any extensions available from the USPTO.
Maryland’s entrepreneurship bus tour hits the road Sept. 10 for a nearly month-long trip through the state.
Startup Maryland, a entrepreneurship support organization, on Monday announced 24 stops for its fifth annual entrepreneurship tour, called the STRT1UP Road Show.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 – 6:00pm, CareFirst Tower, Baltimore, MD
We’re celebrating 11 years of raising awareness about sickle cell disease! Put on something RED and join us at the CareFirst Tower in Canton for an evening of good food, fun and networking with friends – plus a glorious view of the Baltimore harbor. We’re honoring Clinical Research Teams as Unsung Heroes.
Dr. Gary Gibbons, Director of NHLBI, will attend and receive a Distinguished Service Award.
In an ongoing effort to improve the experience of doing business in and/or with Montgomery County, County Executive Ike Leggett is inviting the business community to identify opportunities for streamlining and simplifying rules and regulations for businesses, and for improving the County government’s services to businesses. Your anonymous and confidential feedback will help us identify areas where change will have a positive impact.
Digital health technology leader WellDoc today announced a collaboration with Human API, the fastest-growing health data platform, through which the two companies will explore the unique integration of type 2 diabetes patient health data within WellDoc’s BlueStar digital therapeutic. Human API’s data platform will provide WellDoc with real-time access to comprehensive clinical patient data from its network of 15,000+ pharmacies, health systems and laboratories. The steady flow of data is shared within a highly secure environment that ensures protection of data and patient privacy.
Three counties in California signed on to use emocha’s apps for managing tuberculosis.
The Johns Hopkins spinout is implementing miDOT in Fresno, Merced and Contra Costa counties.
Gaithersburg, MD’s Altimmune has secured a sizable contract with BARDA to further develop its nasal spray anthrax vaccine candidate, building on an existing collaboration as the biotech prepares to move into clinical trials.
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) today announced that it has completed its previously announced spin-off of Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:APVO) through the distribution of all of the shares of Aptevo common stock to the holders of Emergent BioSolutions common stock. As a result of the spin-off, Aptevo is now an independent public company and listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “APVO.”
