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UM Ventures Innovation Series
Please join colleagues from the University of Maryland, College Park Schools of Engineering and Computer Science for the new UM Ventures Innovation Series--a discussion to stimulate ideas and opportunities for collaboration. This monthly series is part of the UM Ventures initiative and will include entrepreneurial faculty, post docs, and students from both campuses to broaden the potential of our work together. UM students, post docs and faculty welcome!
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Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Their ability to innovate, to inspire others, to power a business along the difficult journey from start-up to market leader is truly extraordinary. The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award celebrates these special people who have created many of the world's most dynamic and successful companies. We invite you to join us in celebrating their success at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2013 Maryland Awards Gala.
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FastForward Opening Celebration
Get a preview of the innovative technologies created by Johns Hopkins faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students in the FastForward accelerator and see examples of entrepreneurship from across the university. Learn how FastForward, a unique innovation system, can increase the probability of a startup's success.
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Science in the City @The BioPark
If you're in the business of bio, join us @The BioPark for our monthly social, Science in the City, Thursday, June 27th. Nosh and network with other bio-minded folk and enjoy live music outdoors on our patio (weather permitting) from 5 to 7 pm. No speakers, no agenda...it's strictly social.
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T2 Speakers Series - Spinning out Winning Inventions-UM Office of Tech Commercialization
PRESENTERS:
Dr. Gayatri Varma, Executive Director,
Sangeetha Raghavan, Licensing Associate
Office of Technology Commercialization
University of Maryland
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Health Does Not Recognize International Borders: NCI's Activities in Health Diplomacy
The Global Virus Network presents a conversation with Dr. Joe Harford, Center for Global Health at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Joe Harford, PhD, a senior official within the NCI Center for Global Health and well published cell biologist, has devoted more than 15 years building international partnerships to advance cancer research, training, and surveillance.
On July 10th, he will join us at the University of Maryland to share insights on challenges faced in bringing public and private sectors together in the international arena around cancer research, including those cancers caused by viruses, and on political obstacles overcome in advancing specific collaborative programs.
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Tech Transfer Speakers Series - EIRs, SBIRs, and more with BioHealth Innovation, Inc.
Presenters:
- Richard Bendis, President and CEO
- Ethan Byler, Director, Innovation Programs
- Todd Chappell, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, NIH-OTT
- Dr. Ken Malone, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, UMD Ventures
- Ram Aiyar, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, NHLBI
BioHealth Innovation, Inc. (BHI) is a regional innovation intermediary that accelerates and facilitates technology transfer and commercialization of market-relevant research in federal labs, universities, and biohealth companies in the Region. It is a private-public partnership that connects the Region’s innovation assets to provide integrated technical knowledge, financial means, and entrepreneurial/managerial expertise to turn promise into prosperity for the region while advancing human health.
BHI’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program is designed to be an active partner with research institutions to source, fund, and grow high-potential, early-stage products through project-focused companies. The entrepreneurs in the program support the formation of new companies based upon innovative discoveries in the areas of drugs, vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and medical devices from the intramural research programs at the NIH and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as from universities and businesses.
BHI's Commercial Relevance Program (CRP) offers biohealth companies support in preparing applications for federal funding inclusive of SBIRs, STTRs, and other federal government awards. Companies submit their federal funding concepts and receive pre-proposal feedback to help troubleshoot and strengthen your application. Further support from professional consultants and service providers is available to assist in improving your application.
BHI recently published the Central Maryland BioHealth Entrepreneur's Resource and Finance Guide 2013. The Guide serves as a compendium of resources to biohealth innovators and entrepreneurs working to start and grow new companies and technologies in the region.
More information: http://techtransferspeakers.eventbrite.com/
Annual Sickle Cell Disease Clinical Research Meetings
GUIRR Webinar on FLC Available Technologies Tool
This GUIRR webinar will present a new resource, the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Available Technologies tool. The tool provides a free, one-stop shop to locate licensing opportunities for a particular technology anywhere within the FLC's nationwide system of federal labs and research centers. Fully equipped with Google's advanced search capabilities, the FLC Available Technologies tool yields user-friendly results that can be saved, printed, or downloaded as a PDF with active hyperlinks that directly link to the featured technology.
Industry and academic representatives who would like to find out more about how this tool can reduce the time, effort, and guesswork needed to find federal laboratory inventions available to transfer are encouraged to participate.