News Releases
| Genisphere Begins Collaborative and Sponsored Research Program with the University of Maryland |
HATFIELD, Pa - April 26, 2017 - Genisphere LLC, provider of the 3DNA® drug delivery platform, has signed a collaborative and sponsored research agreement with the University of Maryland, through Dr. Silvia Muro. The overall goal of the partnership is to study the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of various 3DNA designs and formulations after in vivo administration. |
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| IBBR Receives Award to Develop Drought-Tolerant Plants |
(Rockville, Maryland) The Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research has been awarded a $100,000 grant to test the broader applicability of a technology platform invented by one of its leading scientists towards engineering drought-tolerant, agriculturally important crops. The grant is funded by the Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) as part of the Technology Council of Maryland’s (TEDCO) effort to support commercialization of academic-based scientific research as part of the state’s efforts to foster economic development in Maryland. |
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| Bentley Leads Team of Researchers Working to Develop Electrogenetic Device for Activating Gene Expression via Electrodes |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Alyssa Wolice, 301-405-3936 UMD Researchers Develop Electrogenetic Device for Activating Gene Expression via Electrodes System Holds Promise for Study of Biological Systems, Biosensors and Bio-hybrid Devices
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| University of Maryland Key Partner in New National Institute for Innovation of Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals |
Contacts: Pamela R. M. Phetphongsy 301-405-6266, Lee Tune 301-405-4679 |
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| IBBR Scientist Brian Pierce Wins Best Inventor Pitch at UMD's Bioscience Day 2016 |
By Tiffany Stone At the University of Maryland’s Bioscience Day 2016, Brian Pierce, PhD., Assistant Professor, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR), presented new rational design approaches to develop hepatitis C vaccines, winning the best inventor pitch. Pierce received a $3,000 award sponsored by UM Ventures, a joint initiative of the MPowering the State Program, that brings together the University of Maryland, Baltimore and University of Maryland, College Park to commercialize technology. |
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| IBBR Scientist's Remarkable Discovery Premiers in Two Publications |
By Tiffany Stone FRONT COVER OF IMMUNITY, April 19, 2016 THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY, MAY 1, 2016 |
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| Muro Develops Technique to Improve Oral Drug Delivery Using Targeted Nanocarriers |
 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.v26.20/issuetoc Associate Professor Silvia Muro, PhD and fellow UMD researchers are working to improve oral drug delivery to targets by protecting against the effects of gastric conditions. |
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| Chinese Delegation Visits IBBR |
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| IBBR Associate Director Co-Authors Science Paper on Vitamin A Transport |
 Using a new, lightning-fast camera paired with an electron microscope, University of Maryland School of Medicine scientists have captured images of one of the smallest human proteins to be “seen” with a microscope. |
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| IBBR-NIST Scientists receive MML Accolades Awards for outstanding work |
Please join us in congratulating two IBBR-NIST group members who received the Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) Award and were recognized at a ceremony with their colleagues in July. Andrea Szakal, Ph.D., a research scientist, received the Excellence in MML Safety Accolade for implementing an integrated database system and purchase request tool to support sitewide chemical inventory compliance at IBBR, and Luke Arbogast, Ph.D., a research chemist, received the MML Postdoctoral Fellow Accolade for continuing the development of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy methods for atomic r |
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