Balitmore’s PathSensors Inc. has received $500,000 from a Chinese investor to expand the bioscience company’s footprint in China.
The private investor, Michael Song, is president of Shanghai Qi Fa Electronics Co. Ltd. in China. The money will allow PathSensors to grow sales of its surface and airborne detection systems in China. Funding will also go toward market expansion in the U.S.
Greater Baltimore Committee wants legislators to establish a state tax credit for angel investors who support early-stage companies.
Legislation to create the tax credit will be a top priority for the business advocacy group during the upcoming General Assembly session. The organization will also push for programs to create more on-the-job training opportunities for students. Priorities also include strengthening science and technology education in grade school and securing funding for transportation infrastructure.
Rockville-based contract research firm Optimal Research announced it will begin clinical trials this month for the Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) Ebola vaccine, considered one of the frontrunners in the race to address the Ebola crisis.
Optimal Research Chief Operating Officer E.B. McLindon said Friday the company is seeking individuals to participate in a Phase I Clinical trial for the vaccine. The company plans to administer the vaccine to 92 healthy volunteers in January and February to determine its safety.
US-based biotechnology firm Tetragenetics will enter into collaboration with AstraZeneca’s global biologics research and development arm MedImmune, on multi-target ion channel drug discovery program.
The need to improve and increase research into dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases is widely recognised. In 2012, Prime Minister David Cameron launched his “Challenge on Dementia” and since then a number of initiatives have been announced which mean that the UK is a world-leader in this area. MedImmune, the biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, has built a team of neuroscientists focusing on neurodegenerative research and is deeply involved and committed to its work to discover and develop novel treatments for dementia.
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Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels is scrambling to track down funding for young researchers who are increasingly being passed up for federal grants.
Facebook generates about $8 a year in revenue from each of its users. But what if you offered a company not just your photos and updates, but your entire genome?
Then you could be worth as much as $20,000.
Hundreds of research papers are published every day worldwide. But which articles are most discussed and in which circles? To find out, Altmetric in London traced how often papers were noted in 14 digital channels, ranging from the serious (5,000 research blogs and Mendeley, an academic citation network) to the trendy (Twitter, Facebook) and everything in between (including 1,000 news outlets). Altmetric poured data for 2014 into an algorithm that created scores; the top 200 articles are mapped here.
R. Mike Gill, chairman of Columbia investment banking firm Evergreen Advisors, will become the next secretary of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development.
The appointment ends months of speculation about who Gov.-elect Larry Hogan, a Republican, would name to the role after winning the gubernatorial election in November.
