Johns Hopkins is setting its sights on an end to cancer with its new Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
When someone with a high fever walks into a rural African clinic, diagnosis could be murky. The symptoms could be those of dengue, Ebola, West Nile disease, malaria or flu, and blood work results from distant labs, if available, often takes days. Now a handful of researchers are separately working on inexpensive, paper-based diagnostic tests that accurately pinpoint the cause of a disease in minutes and could speed up treatment and prevent its spread. The lack of funds and commercial partners however, means most might languish in labs.
Johns Hopkins is launching an immunotherapy center for cancer research with a $125 million gift from longtime Hopkins donors Michael R. Bloomberg and Sidney Kimmel, along with other donors.
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd is looking at launching two or three combination vaccines in India in the near future, to address a host of paediatric disease. The company is also organising programmes to spread awareness about the need of vaccination among public.
Gaithersburg cell modification technology firm MaxCyte Inc. is expected to go public on the London Stock Exchange Tuesday morning.
MaxCyte, which will trade under the ticker symbol MXCT, is seeking to raise between $14 million and $15 million, said CEO and President Doug Doerfler.
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.