News and Events - 9/15/15
TOP STORY:  Sonavex Raises $1M to Advance Clot Detection Device
Baltimore's Sonavex, Inc. a Johns Hopkins University spinout, recently received SBIR awards from the NIH and NSF and private financing from investors including the Abell Foundation and the Blue Jay Syndicate, to support pre-clinical testing and commercialization of its novel ultrasound-based technology designed to detect potentially catastrophic post-operative clots. 
BioMaryland News
Baltimore's Cerecor, Inc. initiates Phase 2 study for CERC-301, an antidepressant product candidate with potential for rapid onset of effect, and also registers for IPO.

Bethesda's Weinberg Medical Physics, LLC and Gaithersburg's Z-senz, LLC both receive SBIR awards from NIST to advance their innovative health science related technologies. 

Baltimore's Vaccinogen, Inc. enhances patient-derived antibody program with revolutionary high-throughout single cell screening and analysis system.

Gaithersburg's LaunchLabs will have five new office-lab modules ready for occupancy 11/1. 

Baltimore's emocha launches app based platform for MDR TB management in South Africa.

University of Maryland School of Medicine tests novel treatment for Parkinsons.

The Johns Hopkins University collaborates with Luminox-Health to connect Israeli digital health startups with real-world U.S. medical health care ecosystem.

Six new professorships focused on research topics including bioengineering, human virology, neurogenetics and public health are endowed with $14.9M in joint private-public funding. 

US and Korean Bio, Medical and Pharmaceutical companies are invited to join the  Korea-US Cooperative Conference for Life Science Industry 2015 on November 20-21, 2015. 
 
BIO Int'l 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 Baltimore and Rockville offices.  Please schedule appointments in advance.
Upcoming Deadlines and Events
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     9/15  Annual Golf Tournament (ISPE/CBA) - Ijamsville
     9/17  Business of Biotech - It Takes a Village (WIB - DC/Baltimore)
     9/18  Deadline to Apply: HHS SBIR/STTR Phase II Awardee CAP Program
     9/21  National Institutes of Health Fall SBIR Forum (BHI) - Rockville
     9/21  2015 STOPfakes.gov Road Show (NEI/MCCC) - Rockville
     9/21  Biotech 42: Junior Scientist Training Program (FAES) - Bethesda
     9/22  ABCs of Starting a Business (WBC) - Frederick
     9/24  Sharing Ownership in Your Company (Saul Ewing) - Hagerstown
     9/30  Recombinant DNA Techniques -- 3 days (Biotech Institute of MD) - Baltimore
     9/30  Resource Meet-Up 2015 (REDI) - Rockville
  10/5-7  AdvaMed 2015: The MedTech Conference - San Diego
   10/15  Deadline to Apply: MIPS Funding
   11/17  Entrepreneur Expo 2015 (TEDCO) - Linthicum
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BIO Innovator Spotlight



 BioMarker Strategies President and CEO 
Jerry Parrott discusses his company at
 BIO International 2015 in Philadelphia, PA. 

The BioMaryland Center is the office within Maryland's Department of Business and Economic Development which connects life sciences companies, academic and federal researchers with each other and with potential sources of capital, partners, and clients. 

The Center promotes the State's industry domestically and abroad and also provides business plan assistance, market research databases, site selection information, and other resources.    

 

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