BioHealth and Life Sciences Winter Update 
GSK Opens New Global Vaccines R&D Center with Up to 450 Jobs
GSK officially opened its new R&D vaccine center in Rockville in a state-of-the-art facility which will house 450 scientists and support staff, including up to 200 new jobs. The center is one of three worldwide for GSK and is its only global vaccine R&D center in the U.S.  It will will house 12 critical vaccine development programs.
BioHealth and Life Sciences News
Gaithersburg's Emergent BioSolutions supports HHS' Anthrax Preparedness Strategy with plans to deliver up to $1B in BioThrax to the Strategic Nat'l Stockpile. 

Baltimore's Paragon Biosciences receives a Multiple Award IDIQ Contract from NIAID vvalued up to $159M for preclinical drug development services.

Lutherville's Agrimetus raises $23.5M in Series B funds to further the discovery, development and delivery of new innovative agriculture crop protection products.

Gaithersburg's Altimmune and Pharmathene announce merger to create immunotherapeutics company targeting infectious diseases. 

Rockville's Synthetic Biologics confirms key features of pivotal Phase 2b/3 Trial of SYN-010 for IBS-C, and also shares positive results in Phase 2b Trial for C. diff.

Baltimore's Profectus BioSciences'  bivalent VesiculoVax™ vaccine protects animals from infection and death after exposure to Chikungunya or the Zika virus.

Bethesda's BrainScope launches its Ahead 300 device for objective Point of Care assessment of mild head injury, including concussion. 

Rockville's GlycoMimetics GMI-1271 yields high remission rates, favorable tolerability in two Phase 2 arms of ongoing Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial for AML.

Baltimore's Glyscend, type 2 diabetes startup, wins $500K from in J&J.

Columbia's Well Doc announces FDA clearance of the wireless integration of its diabetes management platform into J&J's latest blood glucose monitor. 

Baltimore's Personal Genome Diagnostics™ genomic analyses technology demonstrates how resistance to checkpoint blockade therapy evolves in Cancer.

Rockville's Promaxo and Baltimore's Sage Pharma each receive $200,000 from TEDCO's Life Science Investment Fund for technologies requiring FDA approval. 

Gaithersburg's MaxCyte's technology used NIH NIAID study demonstrating CRISPR-Cas9 repair of X-linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD). 

Rockville's RegeneRx receives notice of acceptance for patent in Australia and intent to grant patent in EU for treatment of neural injury with Thymosin Beta 4.

Columbia's Osiris Therapeutics demonstrates antimicrobial properties of human cryopreserved viable amniotic membrane in treatment of chronic wounds.

Baltimore's UnderArmour partners with Johns Hopkins Medicine to collaborate on fitness product innovation based on science.

Rockville's IDT-Biologika establishes animal health americas business unit.

Germantown's Qiagen enhances bioinformatics portfolio with OmniSoft acquisition.

Columbia's A-Cell now is exclusive US distributor for Southmedic's DTS products.


Bethesda's Aledade raises $20M from investors, including Google Ventures.

Gaithersburg's Opgen collaborates with Merck to develop novel rapid diagnostics and informatics tools to combat antibiotic resistance. 

Rockville's Sanaria announces that its PfSPZ vaccine provides high-level defense against Malaria in U.S. Navy and Army clinical investigation.

Annapolis' Vixiar Medical moves forward with commercialization of its first product, a non-invasive, handheld POC device for monitoring worsening heart failure.

Rockville's KeyGene USA collaborates with Phenome Networks on crop innovation technologies and continues genomic big data solutions partnership with GENALICE.

Bethesda's Get Well Network's all-in-one patient life console (PLC) used in VA Medical Centers achieves silver level EPEAT certification.

Rockville's Human Genome Sciences is the first biopharmaceutical manufacturing employer to participate in Maryland's Apprenticeship Program.

UMd's Institute of Human Virology receives $138M in federal funds to combat AIDS/ HIV in Africa and launch new Center for Int'l Health, Education and Biosecurity.

Johns Hopkins University's FastForward business incubator expands by 30K sq. ft. into new 1812 Ashland Ave. building where Toshiba Medical also signed lease.

Interested in participating in the Maryland Pavilion at the BIO Int'l conference in San Diego next June? If so, please contact Maryland Department of Commerce

Maryland jumps two spots up to #5 in Bloomberg's most innovative states. 

University of Maryland key partner in NIST grant with 150 organizations focused on bringing safe biopharma products to market faster and on workforce training.

Seeking lab space?  Contact Maryland Department of Commerce for options for incubator space and more--Hagerstown, Dorchester County, Baltimore and I-270. 
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