News and Events - 9/1/15
TOP STORY: GraftWorx and Perceptive Navigation Raise Funds
Two early stage Maryland biotech companies have closed their initial rounds of capital with support from Maryland and others.  GraftWorx raised $1.9M to advance its smart stent technology and Perceptive Navigation raised $500,000 to move its in-body ultrasound technology forward with investments from the Maryland Venture Fund and Abell Foundation. 
BioMaryland News
Silver Spring's United Therapeutics Corporation agrees to sell priority review voucher to AbbVie for $350 Million.

Germantown's Senseonics raises $10M in venture funding following a 2014 raise of $20M to support the development of its implantable blood glucose monitor. 

Baltimore's Revolve Biotechnologies is awarded $450K Phase I SBIR to develop IR fluorescent proteins for deep brain imaging.

Bethesda's Sucampo Pharmaceuticals launches tender offer to acquire R-Tech Ueno, its Japanese predecessor and manufacturing arm.

Rockville's RegenxBio Inc. files for Initial Public Offering.

Gaithersburg's Vaxin has changed its name to Altimmune to reflect the company's expansion beyond vaccines to include immunotherapeutics.

Baltimore's WellDoc, Samsung and Ontario Telemedicine Network announce innovative program to help Ontarians manage type 2 diabetes and improve health and fitness.

Gaithersburg's ExeGi Pharma partners with NIH-funded AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) to study probiotic in people living with HIV.

Bethesda's NW Bio Confirms Phase III trial of DCVax - L for GBM brain cancer is ongoing.

Johns Hopkins launches nation's first undergraduate minor in computational medicine to focus on quantitative approaches to understanding and treating disease.

Baltimore's Cogentis receives scholarship from venture-backed orphan drug accelerator group Cydan to participate in its accelerator program. 

Vixiar Medical will be showcasing its noninvasive CHF detection technology at AdvaMed 2015 as a finalist in the MedTech Innovator competition.  Harpoon Medical and Sonavex received BioMaryland scholarships to support their attendance at the event in San Diego as they advance their noninvasive mitral valve repair and POC imaging technologies. 

AsclepiX Therapeutics' Jordan Green, Vasoptic Medical's Jason Brooke, and Johns Hopkins' Darius Graham  included in Baltimore Business Journal's 2015 40 Under 40.
 
BIO is accepting session nominations for its 2016 conference in San Francisco.

BioMaryland's market research resources--Frost and Sullivan, Recap, Medtrack and BioMedTracker--are available to Maryland biotechnology entrepreneurs at the BioMaryland's Rockville and Baltimore offices.  Please schedule appointments in advance.
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       9/8  Biotech Invitational (Little Things for Cancer; Zaching Against Cancer) - Glenwood
       9/9  Innovating through the US EDA (T2 Speaker Series) - Rockville
     9/11  Deadline to Apply: Commercialization Accelerator Program (NIH SNIR/STTR)
     9/11  Scientific Discussion Group (CASSS/NIH) - IBBR (Register by 9/4)
     9/11  SBA 504 Loan Program/Community Advantage Program (SBDC) - Frederick
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     9/15  Annual Golf Tournament (ISPE/CBA) - Ijamsville
     9/17  Stop Losing Prospects (WBC) - Frederick
     9/21  National Institutes of Health Fall SBIR Forum (BHI) - Rockville
     9/21  Biotech 42: Junior Scientist Training Program (FAES) - Bethesda
     9/22  ABCs of Starting a Business (WBC) - Frederick
     9/25  Managing the Madness of Online Marketing (MD SBDC) - Frederick
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BIO International 2015 Spotlight
SNNLive - MD DBED - Ben Wu



Benjamin H. Wu, Deputy Secretary of Maryland's 
Dept. of Business & Economic Development 
at BIO 2015 in Philadelphia. 

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