Technology for detecting bowel disease gets licensing deal from UM Ventures
Biomecite Diagnostics is commercializing a tool that uses genetics to detect gastrointestinal diseases.
Perman Delivers State of the University Address
Published May 7, 2015 on UMB News. There is nothing like the sight of children to inspire hope, so it was only fitting that University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) President Jay A. Perman, MD, began his second annual State of …
Biomecite Diagnostics to Develop IBD Diagnosis Tool from UMB
Published May 7, 2015 in IBD News. The University of Maryland (UM) Ventures has established an agreement with Biomecite Diagnostics, LLM, giving the company the exclusive option for the rights to developing novel methods for diagnosing inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) from …
Measuring mAbs with magnetic resonance can help regulatory testing
Published April 24, 2015 in BioPharma Reporter. US researchers have discovered the most precise method yet for measuring the structure of monoclonal antibodies. The technique gives manufacturers and regulators a way of assessing and comparing the performance and quality of …
The 3D Future of Sound
New audio technologies could radically change the way we play games, listen to music and experience movies.
Breethe, Inc. is making an artificial lung for patients to take home from the hospital
It’s said to be the world’s first “out-of-hospital” artificial lung. The University of Maryland’s commercialization arm is backing the venture.
NMR ‘fingerprinting’ for monoclonal antibodies
Published April 15, 2015 in Phys.org. A schematic showing the NISTmAb monoclonal antibody, an immunoglobulin G (IgG) molecule being developed by NIST as a reference material. The labels mark the fragments Fab and Fc that were used in the novel …
Baltimore startup building a portable, artificial lung – the first meant to be used out of a hospital
Published April 13, 2015 in MedCity News. Nearly 400,000 Americans die each year from lung disease. The just-formed University of Maryland spinout Breethe Inc. is building a wearable, portable blood pump oxygenator that’ll work as an artificial lung. It’s designed for …
A UMB startup is developing a portable artificial lung
Published April 13, 2015 in the Baltimore Business Journal. Lung disease lands thousands of patients in the hospital every year. And that’s where many of them stay, unable to breathe without a cumbersome respirator to help circulate air through their …
Farm Women Learn How to Prepare Healthy Economic Seedbeds
Published March 28, 2015 in Lancaster Farming. WEST FRIENDSHIP, Md. — Women in agriculture learned how to prepare a healthy economic seedbed at the annual Central Maryland Women in Agriculture conference, Thursday, March 19, in West Friendship, Md. Speakers touched …