Baltimore's Protenus raises $4M Series A to protect patient privacy on a national scale.

Rockville's 20/20 Gene Systems Inc. raises $4.5M to support it's efforts to customize its proprietary algorithm for blood biomarker testing for cancer for the Chinese market.

Baltimore's PapGene, Inc. receives a highly competitive Fast-Track SBIR grant from the NCI providing up to $2.3M to commercialize a test to detect ovarian and endometrial cancers.

Rockville's CC Biotech LLC receives SBIR Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation to further development of its advanced separations technologies. 

Baltimore's WellDoc named one of Forbes' "5 Healthcare Tech Startups to Watch in 2016."

Rockville's Synthetic Biologics announces the allowance of key U.S. patent covering SYN-010 intended for the novel treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C).

Johns Hopkins approved for first HIV-positive to HIV-positive organ transplants in US. 

Rockville's Fina Biosolutions now offering EcoCRMTM, economical CRM197 from E. coli, to the research and vaccine manufacturing community.

'Mini-brains' developed at Johns Hopkins could reshape brain research and drug testing.

UM School of Medicine researchers genetically map most dangerous trains of E. coli.

Maryland University of Integrative Health signs $10K sf lease in Howard County.

BioHealth Innovation awarded $495K from U.S. Dept of Commerce's through the EDA's 2015 Regional Innovation Strategies program to expand its venture commercialization model.

Congress suspends medical device tax for two years.

Want to join the Maryland pavilion at BIO2016, June 6-9, in San Francisco? Contact MD Dept. of Commerce's Office of BioHealth and Life Sciences for more information.

Abstracts and registration currently being accepted for the 11th International Marine Biotech Conference (IMBC2016) taking place this summer in Baltimore, 8/29-9/2. 

Is your firm in Maryland's BioHealth Directory?  The next print directory will be published early this summer.  Please contact MD Department of Commerce for more information.