The cybersecurity industry is predicted to double by 2020 and the DC metro area is the center of cybersecurity innovation in the US. Therefore it should be no surprise that the premiere accelerator for information security startups and entrepreneurs calls this area home. The accelerator is Mach37 and they’ve just announced their most recent cohort.
Physician entrepreneurs or wannapreneurs ask a lot of questions about the processes of biomedical and clinical innovation and entrepreneurship. Given their lack of training in medical school, it comes as no surprise and most have to get the information on their own. Maybe these answers to your FAQs will help:
There is an element of synchronicity associated with blogging at this time on my work and career path at the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA). On March 28th, I will celebrate 28 years with the Philadelphia Regional Office of EDA so in some ways, I AM living history here at DOC, part of the EDA institutional knowledge base. EDA is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2016 and I am proud to carry the torch cheerleading for and at EDA, a DOC program that has invested and leveraged billions of dollars in its role as the only federal agency focused exclusively on economic development.
Are you a local engineering firm, technology-based company, or biohealth startup? Are you a STEM-based business in the Tri-State area? The Federal Laboratory Consortium is coming to Hagerstown on April 12, 2016 to share the latest technologies and research capabilities of the federal labs. NIST, NSA, NASA, NIH, & USDA will all be at Hagerstown Community College for the Small Business Forum from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Connect with representatives from each lab and discover how you can benefit from working with their lab.
Maryland universities have ramped up efforts in recent years to help students and faculty turn their discoveries into growing businesses but lag far behind many colleges around the country in spinning off companies and pulling in millions of dollars in licensing revenue.
SPIRIT OF INNOVATION: “We spend a lot of effort in recruitment to find the right culture fit,” says Gorkem Sevinc, CTO of emocha Mobile Health. What’s more, the solutions developed by Sevinc and his team help patients with medication and care plan adherence, a task that can literally save lives. “This drives our team to go above and beyond,” he says.
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: RNN) announced today that additional data supporting the Company’s novel, investigational anti-cancer therapeutic, Supinoxin™ (RX-5902), for the treatment of triple negative breast cancer, were presented at the 14th Annual Targeted Anticancer Therapeutics Congress (TAT 2016), held in Washington, DC March 21- 23, 2016.
Our mission: improve newborn survival and health in the developing world
We are developing cutting edge healthcare technologies for where they’re gravely needed and will have an incredible impact—vulnerable populations in low-resource countries. Annually, over 46 million newborns in developing countries around the world need interventions for complications that happen at or around birth, 600,000 in Uganda alone. Every Neopenda device has the potential to save the life of a newborn for less than $1, once it is produced at scale.
For the last several years, Martine Rothblatt has been positioning United Therapeutics to manufacture transplantable human organs. This week, the founder and CEO of the Maryland biotech cornerstone told the state’s tech community to get ready for a new industry to sprout from the idea.
A Baltimore health startup is among the new class of companies entering Dreamit’s accelerator program.
Timonium-based Kermit was developed by a team that consulted for hospitals on the purchase of implantable medical devices for knees, hips and other body parts.
