News Releases
| Surprise Visit by Prof. Changsheng Liu, VP, East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) |
 UMCP welcomed Prof. Changsheng Liu, Vice President of Shanghai’s East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), to campus on Monday, April 9. Dr. |
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| University of Maryland team hosts the nation’s Materials Genome Initiative Principal Investigators Meeting |
A team of three professors, two from UMCP and one from UMB, were selected to host the nation’s Principal Investigators Meeting of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) on March |
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| Targeting HIV: Moving closer to a potential cure |
Tri-specific antibody targets and neutralizes 99.5% of HIV-1 virus strains A team of researchers at IBBR, led by Dr. Yuxing Li, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, and Principal Investigator at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR), Rockville, is showing how engineered multi-specific antibodies appear to be highly effective at preventing infection across a broad range of HIV-1 virus strains. |
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| Dr. Gregory Payne and Team Nominated for the UMD Invention of the Year Award |
The Division of Research has announced the nominees for the Invention of the Year Award. For 2017, there were over 170 inventions disclosed and 52 patented, 46 technologies licensed, and the receipt of the largest investment in UMD history totaling $219.5 million from the A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation. |
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| IBBR awarded DOE grant to investigate how to protect an emerging biofuel crop from disease |
 UMD researchers work to defend poplar trees – a promising resource for renewable and sustainable energy – from leaf rust and other diseases |
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| Expanding Partnership between University of Maryland and East China University of Science and Technology |
 The new year is off to a great start for the partnership between University of Maryland (UMD) and Shanghai’s East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). This partnership began five years ago when Prof. |
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| IBBR High School Intern Sarah Gao Named Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist |
Over $3M in Regeneron Science Talent Search Awards Will Be Distributed in 2018 |
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| IBBR awarded NIH grant to investigate body’s T-cell mechanism of attack |
New approaches hope to give researchers a glimpse into the cell’s “alert system” to fight tumors and viruses |
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| NIST-IBBR Researchers Awarded Department of Commerce Gold Medal for developing the NISTmAb Standard |
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| IBBR Receives Grant to Explore Next Generation Multi-Specific Antibody Therapeutic: Next Step towards a Cure for HIV? |
The goal is to develop and test a “first-in-class multi-specific antibody“, which could offer dramatic advantages over current treatments for AIDS patients, help eliminate hidden reservoirs of HIV, and potentially deliver on the promise of a long-awaited HIV cure. |
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Sarah Gao to Compete for Top Awards in Most Prestigious U.S. Science and Mathematics Competition for High School Seniors
