News and Events - 4/22/15
TOP STORY: Analytical Informatics & Sonavex Surgical Named
                       Top Start-Ups at 2015 JHU-UMB Innovation Showcase
$200,000 in prizes were awarded at this week's JHU-UMB Innovation Showcase recognizing faculty innovator and university startups demonstrating strong commercialization potential. JHU spinout Sonavex Surgical, developing an improved post-operative vessel clot detection system, and UMB spinout Analytical Informatics, developing innovative health IT systems for clinicians focused initially on radiology, each received $25,000 prizes from BioMaryland. Four faculty innovators from UMB and Hopkins School of Medicine also received prizes. 
BioMaryland News
Clarksville's Neuronascent secures $1.2M financing to develop its Alzheimer's therapeutic.

Gaithersburg's MedImmune forms new collaboration for immuno-oncology combination trials in melanoma, and also receives fast track designation by the FDA for its monoclonal antibody with potential to prevent respiratory disease caused by RSV in infants and young children. 

Baltimore's Profectus BioSciences' Ebola vaccine shown effective and safe in providing
rapid, single-dose protection against current outbreak strain in non-human primates. 

Frederick's RoosterBio Inc. launches new stem cell product format enabling rapid, scalable cell manufacturing and 3D bioprinting.

Germantown's Intrexon completes acquisition of Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF).

Gaithersburg's Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals, Inc. receives orphan drug designation for STP-206 for the prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis.

Rockville's Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. receives SBIR grant from NIH for Nanoplasmid peanut allergy vaccine development. 

Gaithersburg's GenVec announces collaboration with the Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology (LMIV) and the NIAID, NIH.

Rockville's KeyGene USA is celebrating the opening of its new, expanded North and South American HQ co-located at IBBR on April 30th.  RSVP required.

Analytical Informatics, Avhana Health, Vheda Health and Fyodor's Eddy Agbo named finalists for 2015 TEDCO ICE (Innovation, Corp. Excellence, Entrepreneurship) awards. 

Abell Foundation $50K winners at the JHU-UMB showcase were UMd School of Medicine Professors Macko, Rov and Forrester, developing a bio-based software engine for adpative control of modular robots for clinical neurorehabilitation; and Hopkins School of Medicine's Prof. Bosmans for his work treating epilepsy with novel triazole compounds.

University sponsored $25K prizes at the JHU-UMB showcase went to Professors Depireux and Masri at UM School of Dentistry for research on magnetic delivery of therapeutic nanoparticles to dental pulp, and to Kannan Rangaramanujam, developing targeted nanotherapies for cerebral palsy at Johns Hopkins.

Pfizer launches its first annual PCSK9 competitive grants program to advance cardiovascular disease research.

UMBC's partnership with Northrop Grumman expands to include health data analytics.

NCATS supported research shows repurposed AZ drug may impact Alzheimer's.  

TEDCO receives $500K grant to support early stage medical device development. 

The FDA finalizes its accelerated approval pathway for critical devices and aims to get med tech to market faster.

Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures names Cleveland Clinic Innovations leader as new Executive Director of Technology Transfer. 

Alexandria Real Estate Equities will open a new wet lab incubator, Alexandria LaunchLabs in the City of Gaithersburg.  BioHealth Innovation is supporting this incubator and also, with ProductSavvy and Montgomery County, a new health accelerator, Relevant Health.

 

BioMaryland has a limited number of discount tickets available for Maryland start-ups and faculty innovators interested in attending the Atlantic Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics Summit, May 7th and 8th.  Contact the BioMaryland Center for more information. 

 

BioMaryland has a limited number of exhibit hall only passes (excludes access to program and networking events) to the 2015 BIO Int'l Conference in Philadelphia this summer. Requests for these passes are being accepted on a first come-first served basis thru May 1. 
Upcoming Deadlines and Events
    4/25  Tissue Engineering & BioPrinting Workshop (BUGSS) - Baltimore
    4/28  Before You Sign That Agreement (MWBC) - Rockville
    4/29  Data Science Series: Model Evaluation and Metrics (Betamore) - Baltimore
    4/29  Insights from Women Leadership in STEM (NDM) - Baltimore
    4/29  Tales from the Trenches (TCM) - Baltimore
    4/30  Startup Crawl (Betamore) - Baltimore
      5/1  Deadline to Apply - MIPS jointly funded collaborative R&D projects
      5/5  Johns Hopkins BME/CBID Design Day - Baltimore
      5/5  Orientation to Small Business Resources (MWBC) - Rockville
      5/7  Evaluating a Term Sheet - Roundtable Discussion (Saul Ewing) - Baltimore
      5/7  The Atlantic Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics Summit (TCM) - N. Bethesda
      5/7  From the Labels to the Lips (WIB) - Columbia
      5/8  Annual BioMed Trade Mission to Israel - Jerusalem/ Tel Aviv
      5/9  ATLAS - Advancing Tomorrow's Leaders + STEM (MdBio) - College Park 
     5/12  Entrepreneur Office Hours (Mtech) - College Park
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Innovator Spotlight


Bethesda's Brain Bio, developer of portable PET
imaging for Alzheimer's and other neurological
diseases, is exhibiting at the American Academy of Neurology conference in DC this week. 

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