When it comes to the biggest investors in Research and Development (R&D) Swiss pharma top dogs Novartis and Roche have defended their positioning among the top ten companies worldwide – according to a recently published EU study.
The University of Maryland is now integrating the Lean LaunchPad® into standard innovation and entrepreneurship courses across all 12 colleges within the University. Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors.
Aris Melissaratos is batting around the idea of making Stevenson University’s Maryland Rising economic development forum an annual event.
Can you blame him? The first conference, held Monday, drew big-name speakers and generated a buzz other economic development confabs probably envy.
Hospitals are on the hunt for new ideas to transform health care, and some are looking to reality television for inspiration.
Several health care institutions recently have tested TV’s “Shark Tank” approach to seeking out innovation — gathering a panel of pros to hear invention ideas from startups.
Funding and Research Opportunities
The following funding opportunity announcements from the NHLBI or other components of the National Institutes of Health, might be of interest:
Notices:
- Request for Comments on the Draft NIH Policy on the Use of a Single Institutional Review Board for Multi-Site Research
- (NOT-OD-15-026) Office of the Director, NIH
- Reminder for the Extramural Scientific Community: Implementation of the Genomic Data Sharing Policy Begins January 25, 2015
- (NOT-OD-15-027) Office of the Director, NIH
- Notice of Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy on Shared Animal Welfare Concerns
- (NOT-OD-15-028) Office of the Director, NIH
- NIH Modification to Guidance on Marking Changes in Resubmission Applications
- (NOT-OD-15-030) Office of the Director, NIH
- Update: New Biographical Sketch Format Required for NIH and AHRQ Grant Applications Submitted for Due Dates on or After May 25, 2015
- (NOT-OD-15-032) Office of the Director, NIH
- Notice of NHGRI Participation in PA-14-015 “Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Institutional Research Training Grants (Parent T32)” and Establishment of New Training Program in the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetic and Genomic Research
- (NOT-HG-15-004)
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- Notice of Additional Due Date and Correction for RFA-HG-14-005 “Revisions to Add Biomedical Big Data Training to Active Institutional Training Grants (T32)”
- (NOT-HG-15-009)
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- Notice of Change to Instructions for Senior/Key Personnel in the Overall and Project Components of PAR-13-316 “NHLBI Program Project Applications (P01)”
- (NOT-HL-14-242)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Request for Information (RFI): Challenges and Opportunities for Exploring and Understanding the Epitranscriptome
- (NOT-RM-15-007)
- NIH Roadmap Initiatives
Requests for Applications:
- Human Cellular Models for Predicting Individual Responses to Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator- Directed Therapeutics (R41)
- (RFA-HL-15-026)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Application Receipt Date(s): February 9, 2015 and November 9, 2015
- Human Cellular Models for Predicting Individual Responses to Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator- Directed Therapeutics (R43/R44)
- (RFA-HL-15-027)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Application Receipt Date(s): February 9, 2015; November 9, 2015; and November 9, 2016
Sometime soon a slender robot that looks like Casper the ghost and works like Skype on wheels may visit the bedside of an Ebola patient in West Africa, as a doctor nearby instantly transmits data to other researchers over a portable Wi-Fi network.
This source of strategic partnership offers a synergistic relationship that combines monetary and functional resources, capabilities, and core competencies for the purpose of technology commercialization. Entrepreneurs who are looking to accelerate the growth of their businesses often realize they can capture a greater bang for their buck when they collaborate with CVCs who offer value beyond the dollar.
Louis Brandeis famously characterized states as laboratories for democracy, but cities could be called labs for innovation or new practices. With far fewer resources than states or the federal government and responsibilities to people on a daily basis, cities have to be scrappy and creative when it comes to delivering services and running their operations.
California has been associated with risk-taking, entrepreneurship and innovation since the Gold Rush. Today, California is still an innovation engine in such varied sectors as agriculture and the Internet. But only one homegrown industry can stake a claim as a leading contributor to our state’s economy and the health of people around the world: the life sciences sector.
Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman Corp. has named Kenneth Bedingfield as its next chief financial officer.
Bedingfield will succeed James Palmer, who retires next year.