June 2024 Archive
Matthew Eason Awarded Second Prize for 16th Annual Graduate Translational Research Award
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Matthew Eason received second prize in the 2024 Graduate Translational Research Award competition. Phil Robilotto, Dr. Cowger, Dr. Purnell, Robert McCarthy, JD, PhD, and Rana Quraishi, PhD (left to right) presented him with an award certificate. Matthew Eason, a... read more
Eman Mirdamadi Receives First Prize for 16th Annual Graduate Translational Research Award
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Eman Mirdamadi received first prize in the 2024 Graduate Translational Research Award competition. Dr. Lowe, Dr. Purnell, Phil Robilotto, Dr. Bettes, and Dr. Blackman (left to right) presented him with an award certificate. Eman Mirdamadi, a bioengineering PhD... read more
Investing in Innovation at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) spurs the advancement of commercially promising technologies and innovative startup companies through a robust mix of programs designed to support our inventors and entrepreneurs at each stage of development. One initiative is the UM Ventures, Baltimore (... read more
Enhancements to TEDCO’s Maryland Innovation Initiative to Boost Commercialization and Economic Development
Monday, June 17, 2024
COLUMBIA, Md., (June 11, 2024) — TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, has announced significant updates to the Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) program. These changes are designed to amplify the program’s impact on bringing innovative research to market, thus driving... read more
UM Ventures, Baltimore Newsletter
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Have an invention?Disclose it to the UM Ventures, Baltimore team. Featured Article Successful Inaugural Round of Applications to the UM-BILD Accelerator About 40 Letters of Intent (LOIs) were submitted and 11 projects were accepted to proceed with a full... read more
UMB Patent Awards | January - March 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Multi-Functional Fluid Flow DeviceUnited States patent issued January 2, 2024 UMB inventors: James Lyons; Joseph Stains, PhD (UMSOM); Christopher Ward, PhD (UMSOM) Apparatus and Method for Septal PunchEuropean patents (France, Germany, and United Kingdom) issued January 3, 2024 UMB inventors:... read more
President’s Entrepreneurial Fellowship Alumni Profile: Meya Ngundam, PharmD ’23
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Meya Ngundam won the 2023 Pharmapreneur’s Market competition. When Meya Ngundam, PharmD ’23, gravitated to the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (UMSOP) pharmapreneurship pathway with the encouragement and mentorship of her faculty advisor, Magaly Rodriguez... read more
Featured Partner: TollereBio Inc.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
TollereBio, a biotech startup that spun out of UMB, is dedicated to bringing accessible, cost-effective vaccine adjuvants to market. The company is working to commercialize the bacterial enzymatic combinatorial chemistry (BECC) platform, a patented UMB technology that... read more
Featured Inventor: James Galen, PhD
Thursday, June 6, 2024
James Galen, PhD, adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), is a prolific and innovative researcher: since joining UMSOM in 1993, he has been named on over 60 issued patents and about 50 publications. A leading expert in live vector vaccines, much of... read more
Successful Inaugural Round of Applications to the UM-BILD Accelerator
Thursday, June 6, 2024
The University of Maryland Baltimore Life Science Accelerator (UM-BILD), which launched in fall 2023 with the support of a $4 million REACH grant, has successfully closed its first round of funding applications. Applicants are eligible for up to $75,000 in seed investment and development resources... read more