March 2025 Archive
UM Ventures, Baltimore Newsletter | Winter 2025
Friday, March 28, 2025
Have an invention?Disclose it to the UM Ventures, Baltimore team. Featured Article 4MLK Opens as Hub of Innovation and Community The University of Maryland, Baltimore celebrated the official opening of 4MLK, the newest development project in the University of... read more
UMB Patent Awards | October - December 2024
Friday, March 28, 2025
Coaptation Ultrasound Devices and Methods of UseJapanese patent issued October 2, 2024 UMB Inventor: Steven P. Tropello, MD, MS (UMSOM) B4GALT1 Variants And Uses ThereofAustralian patent issued October 10, 2024 UMB Inventor: May Montasser, PhD (UMSOM) Adenosine A2A Agonists For the Treatment... read more
President’s Entrepreneurial Fellowship Alumni Profile: Jackline Joy Martín Lasola, MD, PhD ’23
Friday, March 28, 2025
Jackline Joy Martín Lasola, MD, PhD, ScM ’23, began an MD/PhD program in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at UMB in 2014. During her graduate training, Dr. Lasola was accepted into the 2019-2020 Presidential Entrepreneurial Fellowship (PEF) cohort. She was immediately impressed with the... read more
IP Rounds: Is AI My Co-Inventor? What Academic Researchers Need to Know
Friday, March 28, 2025
By Dustin Lee The tsunami of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed technology development. But while it may be beneficial for rapid advancement, these tools also challenge the traditional practices of protecting technologies with traditional intellectual property (IP) rights... read more
Featured Partner: Secretome Therapeutics
Friday, March 28, 2025
Secretome Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of therapeutics derived from neonatal cardiac progenitor cells (nCPC) to treat underserved diseases. The company’s lead product, STM-01, is in clinical development for adult and pediatric forms of... read more
Featured Inventors: Translational Therapeutics Research Group
Friday, March 28, 2025
Graeme F. Woodworth, MDHoward M. Eisenberg, MD Distinguished Professor of NeurosurgeryProfessor of Diagnostic Radiology Nuclear Medicine, NeurobiologyDirector of the Brain Tumor Treatment and Research CenterChair, Department of NeurosurgeryUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine Anthony J. Kim,... read more
4MLK Opens as Hub of Innovation and Community
Friday, March 28, 2025
“We’ve set the table for Baltimore’s future,” University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) President Bruce Jarrell, MD, FACS, said at the Jan. 15 grand opening of 4MLK, the newest addition to the University of Maryland BioPark. Jarrell was welcoming guests including Maryland Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller,... read more
Irazú Oncology Secures Bridge Funding, Expands Leadership Team and Facilities
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
BALTIMORE, March 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Irazú Oncology, LLC, a biotechnology company developing next-generation cancer immunotherapies, today announced the closing of bridge financing and key organizational developments, including the appointment of a Chief Medical Officer and expansion of... read more