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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.

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.  

Biohealth is all over the map in Maryland. There’s the biotech corridor in Montgomery County, where companies like MedImmune LLC and Emergent BioSolutions Inc. call home. The students and academic researchers at Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland are up in Baltimore. Then there are the government agencies and their many, many contractors spread throughout the Baltimore-Washington region.

Chris Frew wanted to find a way to connect all the dots.

Enter BioHive, an online community engagement website for the movers and shakers of biohealth.

The week of April 3-9 Paul Singh, a successful entrepreneur and seed-stage investor, will visit Los Alamos, Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque to deliver a week-long series of events for aspiring entrepreneurs and community members.

China will develop traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) into a pillar industry, according to a blueprint released by the State Council, China’s Cabinet, on Friday.

The plan proposes universal access to TCM care by 2020. By 2030, TCM should make a notably greater contribution to social and economic development.