Latest Maryland Industrial Partnerships Stories
Joins top two percent in medical and biological engineering COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Martha Connolly, director of the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program in the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute at the University of Maryland, has been inducted into the College of Fellows by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), institute officials announce today. (Logo:...
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Maryland's Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program today announces it is awarding $4.7 million to Maryland university researchers to help 16 local companies develop technology products. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101005/MTECHLOGO) The projects, which team companies with universities across the state, include gene-silencing for cancer treatment, a new cardiovascular diagnostic...
Projects Span the State, Universities to Advance Commercially Promising Products COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Maryland's Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program today announces it has approved 19 new technology development projects worth $4 million. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101005/MTECHLOGO) The projects, which team companies with universities across the state, focus on advancing commercially...
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) Program, a high-impact economic development initiative fostering innovation and new jobs in the State of Maryland, has approved 16 new technology product development projects worth $4.1 million. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101005/MTECHLOGO) Teaming companies and faculty throughout the State of Maryland, the projects include: floating islands to clean the...
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program (MIPS), a historically effective innovation development program in the State of Maryland, has approved 15 new high-technology and biotechnology product development grants worth $4.2 million. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101005/MTECHLOGO ) Among the projects are new drugs, treatments or tests for breast cancer, staph infections and malaria, "green" heated chicken house...
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program (MIPS) -- an initiative of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) at the University of Maryland -- is authorizing 16 new high-technology and biotechnology product development grants worth $3.7 million. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101005/MTECHLOGO) MIPS fosters technology innovation and creates jobs in Maryland by funding commercially promising product...
Successes Validate UMd.'s Entrepreneurship Ecosystem COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Martek Biosciences, a company that launched leveraging the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) at the University of Maryland, entered an agreement on December 21 to be acquired by the Dutch company Royal DSM NV for $1.1 billion, the companies jointly announced. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101005/MTECHLOGO) Martek is the second company sold for more...
COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Martha Connolly, director of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) Maryland Industrial Partnerships program (www.mips.umd.edu) at the University of Maryland, was given the President's Award at the Greater Baltimore Committee's fifth annual Bioscience Awards ceremony, university officials announce today. Connolly accepted the award at a ceremony held in Baltimore on March 25. "The bioscience industry has made tremendous...
BALTIMORE, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Juxtopia(R) LLC, a biomedical and information technology company developing innovative human performance products and services, has received a $168K research project award from the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program, company officials announce today. The funding supports research with Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering department and the Institute for Systems Research at the...
RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Amex:RGN) (www.regenerx.com) announced today that it received a second $100,000 award from the State of Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS) program after successful completion of the first year's research goals. The Company is working with the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) to develop a novel pharmaceutical product specifically aimed at preventing reperfusion injury associated with cardiac ischemia (heart attack). RegeneRx is contributing...
