At a recent workshop, more than 100 technical and business executives spoke with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Stanford University about their most pressing cybersecurity challenges. In this webcast, Nate Lesser, Deputy Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST, will share with you the five major challenges identified in that workshop and how the NCCoE plans to address them. Topics include:
A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) identifies new immune molecules that protect against deadly Marburg virus, a relative of Ebola virus. The research provides ingredients needed to develop treatments for future Marburg outbreaks.
“These antibodies attack a new site on Marburg virus we had not seen before,” said Erica Ollmann Saphire, senior author of the new study, professor at TSRI and director of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Immunotherapeutic Consortium.
Martine Rothblatt wants to transform the way we transplant organs and she doesn’t take no for an answer. When her daughter came down with a rare, life-threatening illness several decades ago, Rothblatt started researching the illness, and founded a company to develop a treatment for it.
In the mid-1990s, Rothblatt’s daughter Jenesis developed pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare condition in which the arteries in the lungs and the heart become constricted, making it hard for blood to flow through them. Doctors gave her a grim prognosis: Without a lung transplant, she had roughly three-to-five years to live.
Sensassure, a Canadian aging-tech startup, has temporarily relocated to Columbia, MD to work with Maryland-based aged-care services provider Lorien Health Systems to continue developing Sensassure’s hardware/software solution for managing urinary incontinence in the elderly. Sensassure’s product utilizes a sensor to detect urination events, which alerts nursing staff when changes are required. Sensassure offers a substantial upgrade from the current manual care processes employed by nursing staff, which lead to missed incontinence events that develop into expensive secondary conditions such as rashes and bed-sores, as well as reducing the time spent checking patients who have not had an event. While in Maryland, Sensassure’s co-founding team is physically living at one of Lorien’s assisted living communities as they begin their pilot program. You can check out their video blog here.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 8:30 AM – Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 12:30 PM
Enough talk about patient engagement. Take your insights and mold them into a mandate.
Are your ideas strong enough to develop a real patient engagement solution – and then present that idea to the likes of the chief technology officer of Health and Human Services?
Attendees of MedCity ENGAGE on July 14-15 in Bethesda will do just that. Teams will work on three issues critical to patient engagement – led by healthcare organizations already dedicated to the issue: Kindred Healthcare, Sharecare and Lumiata.
Each group will present their ideas to the full MedCity ENGAGE audience. The audience will vote, and MedCityNews.com will publish the winning idea. Our journalists will then continue to examine the concept throughout the rest of the year, writing stories that explore the ideas developed by the winning patient engagement solution.
Spaces are filling up fast. Sign up to attend MedCity ENGAGE and then register to join in the challenges.
When it comes to fostering innovation and the commercialisation of world class research, there is something the United States has that we lack. We ought to learn from the successes of the US in this area, and emulate one program they have pioneered to give our own innovative industries a much needed kick start.
For dozens of Australian researchers returning to the country after working in the US, the lack of an equivalent to the US’s Small Business Innovation Research SBIR scheme here reflects a major hole in our innovation ecosystem.
Thirty-six mentors from the schools of medicine, pharmacy, and nursing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) will be paired with 30 Baltimore City high school students, ages 16 to 18, for a five-week-long Summer BioScience Internship Program. The goal of the program is to teach students about careers in biomedical research through hands-on learning, and to link the students to faculty members who can support, guide, and inspire them to pursue careers in science research.
The Universities at Shady Grove (USG) announces the addition of six new members to the USG Board of Advisors, a formally constituted body established under the auspices of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents.
The new USG board members include:
Brooklyn Community Foundation has announced the inaugural cohort of its Incubator Project– one of several new programs within the Foundation’s Brooklyn Accelerator, which launched earlier this year as a capacity-building hub for local, emerging non profits.
Through the Incubator Project, three nonprofit organizations were selected to take advantage of one year of free co-working space in BCF’s new headquarters at 1000 Dean Street, as well as a $5,000 stipend for start-up costs, plus tailored ongoing technical assistance and training to support their development.
