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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.  

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.

In 2011, when the University System of Maryland Board of Regents was considering a merger of the College Park and Baltimore campuses of the University of Maryland, we supported the idea. The pure-research-focused flagship in College Park and the professional school campus in Baltimore had little combined activity and were missing key potential opportunities for cross-disciplinary scholarship and teaching and for economic development. Given how crucial the knowledge economy is to Maryland’s future, we urged leaders to look past parochial concerns and take advantage of the opportunities a combined university could provide.

Opdivo from Bristol-Myers Squibb ($BMY) followed Merck’s ($MRK) Keytruda onto the market, but the immuno-oncology drug quickly overtook its rival and has never looked back. It just today won recommendations in Europe for two more indications. But while it leads the race, analysts say there are still opportunities for Keytruda and drug candidates from others to close the gap in a market that is projected to reach $40 billion in annual sales.

Fast Company magazine recently named the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as one of the world’s most innovative companies of 2016 for building the bionic man, one arm at a time.

The publication highlighted APL’s DARPA-funded Revolutionizing Prosthetics program and specifically recognized its breakthrough Modular Prosthetic Limb project, which is the world’s first artificial limb controlled by neural impulses.

Health Datapalooza is a national conference focused on liberating health data, and bringing together the companies, startups, academics, government agencies, and individuals with the newest and most innovative and effective uses of health data to improve patient outcomes.

Business Innovation Network startup Nexercise owners Ben Young and Greg Coleman struck a deal with investor Mark Cuban for $1.5 million in exchange for 10% equity stake in the company and $1.5 million unsold advertising inventory in credit. Their app Sworkit is in the number one position in the Apple store for health and fitness and was a recent featured story on Washington Business Journal’s website.