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• Link Plus Forms Subsidiary to Develop MIPs-Based Solutions for Detection and Filtering of Viruses for Public Health Applications

  - 2008-01-22

  Link Plus Corporation announced today that it has formed a subsidiary called Link Plus BioTech, Inc. to focus on public health related applications of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers MIPs technology for the specific detection, binding, and separation of viruses. The creation of Link Plus BioTech results from the exclusive license agreement...

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• U of Maryland bio facility announces first tenant

  - 2008-01-11

  The University of Maryland, Baltimore BioPark in West Baltimore announced that biotech company Gliknik Inc. will be the first tenant in the BioInnovation Center, a shared biotech facility under construction in UMB BioPark's Building Two. Gliknik is working on novel biotechnology drugs for autoimmune diseases and cancer, based on research...

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• Letters to the Editor

  - 2007-11-02

  Higher education needs dedicated state funding Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to resolve the state's $1.7 billion "structural deficit," with its mixture of tax reform, budget cuts, and new revenue sources, has understandably generated a great deal of discussion. Somewhat lost in the conversation, however, is...

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• Paul Allenza Named Director of University of Maryland's Biotechnology Research and Education Program

  - 2007-07-19

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• World class scientist to lead U-Md.'s new genomics center

  - 2007-04-06

  The University of Maryland School of Medicine said Thursday it has lured a world-class scientist to establish a genomics research center at its West Side BioPark. The Genome Institute is expected to draw about $25 million in external research funding within two years, and eventually about $50 million,...

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• University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute obtains United States patent.

  - 2006-10-01

  University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (Baltimore, MD) has patented a method for introducing and expressing genes in animal cells, in which the animal cells are transfected with bacterial blebs containing a eukaryotic expression cassette encoding the gene. Bacterial blebs comprising a eukaryotic expression cassette, wherein the...

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• Commentary: Area biotech growing up

  - 2006-09-01

  It has been exciting to watch Greater Baltimore become a leader in the life sciences industry over the years with its large federal research and development expenditures, National Institutes of Health contract awards, and high concentration of Ph.D.s, doctoral scientists and engineers. Led by The Johns Hopkins University...

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• Maryland's university research parks trade competition for

  - 2006-03-03

  Maryland's five university-based technology research parks traditionally have existed in an atmosphere of competition: Interstate 270's gleaming new biotech corridor versus Baltimore's renowned universities; private Johns Hopkins University versus the public University System of Maryland.Not anymore.The research parks yesterday announced they have formed a regional research park industry association, called...

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• Funding for University of Maryland, Baltimore BioPark center may be

  - 2006-03-03

  An initiative intended to assist Maryland's biotechnology community might land on the General Assembly's cutting room floor.Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. allocated in his Fiscal Year 2007 budget $12 million to build a Center for Regenerative Research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore BioPark, and another $1.5 million to operate...

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• Miles & Stockbridge, UM Law program go where the biotech firms will

  - 2005-10-28

  Walking along Baltimore Street in West Baltimore, from Saint Paul Street to Martin Luther King Boulevard, there's a 7-Eleven, a check- cashing place and a business called Millennium Cutz. Across the boulevard, townhouses that have seen better days come into view, hard by a vacant lot and the...

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