Four Baltimore-area technology startups have received a total of $800,000 in loans from Anne Arundel County.
The county’s VOLT Fund, managed by the Anne Arundel Economic Development Corp., supports entrepreneurs and pre-revenue startups to help them reach key milestones, attract additional funding and grow locally. The fund receives $1.8 million a year from the state’s Small, Minority and Women-Owned Business Investment Fund, which is funded through video lottery revenue from Maryland casinos.
When March 30th from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Where: Relevant Health 155 Gibbs St. #529 Rockville, MD 20850
Join us for an evening of networking around innovation and commercialization at the BioBuzz @ Relevant Health. Meet with the organizations fueling commercialization in Maryland – BHI & TEDCO – and mingle with the first cohort of companies in the regions newest BioHealth accelerator – Relevant Health.
BHI, who operates the relevant health accelerator, is an innovation intermediary focused on commercializing market-relevant bio-health innovations and increasing access to early-stage funding. This is your chance to get to know some of their TEAM and Entrepreneur’s in Residence to help you bring your product to market.
This event will be TEDCO’s bi-monthly “meet the program managers” event. Take this opportunity mingle with the program managers and learn about how you can navigate through TEDCO’s funding programs. TEDCO is State’s go-to resource for funding start-ups that need guidance as they bring innovative concepts to market..
WellDoc, a digital health technology leader, today announced a collaboration with LifeScan, Inc., a business within the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Care Companies and a world leader in blood glucose monitoring, to deliver a best-in-class digital health solution for patients living with Type 2 diabetes. The agreement was facilitated with LifeScan affiliate Cilag GmbH International. In addition to the collaboration, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC) participated in WellDoc’s $29.5 million Series B financing.
University of Maryland, Baltimore President Jay A. Perman, MD, has been awarded the 2016 Giving Back Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education. The Giving Back Award honors presidents and chancellors of colleges and universities who go above and beyond their everyday leadership duties and “give back” to their campuses and communities. Perman will be featured, along with 26 other recipients, in the April 2016 Leadership Support and Giving Back issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.
Novavax Inc. is exploring its options in creating a Zika virus vaccine candidate.
So far, the Gaithersburg vaccine maker (NASDAQ: NVAX) has been mum about whether it would join other Greater Washington companies in the race to stop the Zika virus. The disease has caused concern among worldwide health leaders in recent months because of a suspected connection to birth defects in newborns and Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults.
If you want to find something quickly, knowing what not to look for can help speed up the process, researchers say.
New research from Johns Hopkins University has found that the art of ignoring can be used to improve search performance, but only after people have been given time to practice.
Tech 2000, Inc. (Tech 2000), a leading education technology and solutions company, has added two new directors to its board of directors, Bruce Klein and Paul Opalack.
“Adding these two technology rockstars to our board will help us aggressively expand Tech 2000, as well as our appnetic and Lumious enterprise software businesses,” said Tien Wong, CEO of Tech 2000. Klein and Opalack will help shape future strategy for not only Tech 2000’s core business of corporate learning and development, software development, and learning tools and analytics, but also the company’s two software as a service (SaaS) businesses: sales acceleration platform appnetic, and learning analytics platform Lumious.
The health foundation of Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is in talks with Latin American governments and scientists over plans to spread hundreds of millions of mosquitoes that are unable to transmit dengue fever and Zika virus.
The discussions include a proposal by scientists in Medellín, Colombia, to spend $16 million to try to protect the city’s three million people with the new breed of mosquitoes.
Funding and Research Opportunities The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of interest:
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016 from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)
Montgomery County Department of Economic Development – 111 Rockville Pike Suite 800 Rockville, MD 20850
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is based on Silver Spring, MD, but is served by laboratories and science centers across the country. From severe weather and climate to ocean and coastal sciences, NOAA’s work is extremely varied and offers a number of opportunities for MD companies. This presentation from NOAA’s Technology Partnerships Office will provide an overview of NOAA’s science activities, as well as ways private sector companies can work with NOAA.
