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Last year, three biomedical engineering (BME) MS students—Teresa Cauvel, Rebecca Peyser, and Sona Shah—took BME Lecturer Katherine E. Reuther’s new design course and came up with an idea for a health technology startup they called Neopenda. Their concept, born in January and shaped through Reuther’s class over the spring semester, was a low-cost, low-power, low-maintenance way to monitor neonatal vitals through engineered “hats,” a headband containing a small circuit that measures heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature, and blood oxygen saturation in critically ill infants and then sends the data to a centralized monitoring device.

It’s been a frenetic couple of weeks between Consumer Electronics Show and J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference so now it’s time to take a broader look at what investors took away from them. The latter conference has certainly evolved since its start as Hambrecht & Quist.

Our livers rested, our business cards sheathed – one more year of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference has come and gone. Given that the week was relatively quiet in terms of breaking news, the focus rested more solidly on trend analysis, moodiness – and what was not said. It also showed undercurrents of change.

Frederick software startup Luminal has raised $20 million and is changing its name to Fugue.

The Series C round was led by New Enterprise Associates, with investment from Core Capital. The new financing brings the company’s total funding to $34 million.

At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) CEO Andrew Witty made headlines when he signaled that he might be open to splitting the pharma giant in separate parts, a move some investors say would unlock more value.

Venture capitalists invested a whopping $451 million in Maryland companies in the last three months of 2015, the largest quarterly amount in the state in 15 years.

Germany has a long-standing reputation for life science innovation. However, most pharmaceutical and biotech companies are now headquartered in the US, and significantly more digital health solutions are developed in Silicon Valley and Boston than in Berlin or Munich.

At its recent AgeTech Expo, Aging2.0 held the 3rd annual Pitch-for-Pilots (P4P) competition where market-ready startups pitched their innovations to senior care providers in the audience in hopes of securing pilot partnerships.    Selected from more than 150 applications, the pitching companies presented the challenge they are addressing, their solution, what kind of pilot they would like to run and any requirements for the potential provider partner. The prize at hand for senior care partners? A free, 6-week pilot with at least 10 senior participants. 

Hundreds of people packed into Morgan State University’s Murphy Fine Arts Center on Thursday for this year’s TEDxBaltimore. FEATURED JOBS Design Assistant / Project Manager C.N.Robinson

Entry Level Management Trainee – Marketing / Sales / PR GVG, Inc. Med Tech/CNA/Caregiver Brightview Senior Living Post a JobSee More Jobs The day-long event featured 15-minute talks from 17 speakers on topics ranging from scientific discovery and space exploration to prison reform and racial inequality. There were too many interesting ideas to talk about them all, but here are a few that captured my attention:

“We have released our annual Regional Report. The report benchmarks the region against other metropolitan regions, the national average and specifically markets comparable to the Greater Baltimore region. This year’s report analyzes the region’s employment, innovation, quality of life, jobs and investment.”