News Releases
| 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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| An Extraordinary Standard: New NIST Protein Could Spur Biopharmaceutical Innovation |
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued one of the world’s most intricate measurement standards: an exhaustively analyzed antibody protein that the biopharmaceutical industry will use to help ensure the quality of treatments across a widening range of health conditions, including cancers, autoimmune disorders and infectious diseases. |
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| IBBR Facility Becomes More Energy Efficient Through Optimization |
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| IBBR and UMB BioMET Scientists Have Proposed a New Model To Help Solve the Mystery of How Lithium Stabilizes Moods |
New measurements may have lifted the veil on the vexingly elusive interactions through which lithium can moderate the manic highs and debilitating lows experienced by people who suffer from bipolar disorder—about 2.6 percent of Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. |
