PaverGuide Inc. is the second growing company based in a rural part of the state to receive funding through TEDCO’s recently expanded Rural Business Innovation Initiative. The first investment was awarded to a Queen Anne’s County herbal medicine business, Plum Dragon, in May.
Maryland Technology Development Corp. is launching a new fund that will offer early stage investments of $50,000 to startups that may be overlooked by other funding organizations.
Historically, health care has spent fractions of a percent of its technology budget on security, a paltry proportion when compared to industries like finance that handle similarly sensitive data.
Under the new TEDCO 2.0 vision, MII is now poised to get even better, and Arti Santhanam, Ph.D. was recently appointed as the new MII Program Director to help make that happen.
Elixirgen Scientific’s new kit, Quick-miniBrain™ uses ES/iPSC differentiation to form miniaturized, 3D human brain tissues for drug discovery and toxicity screening.
The grant will go toward Longeveron’s clinical trial examining the safety and efficacy of its allogeneic mesenchymal stem cell product to improve flu vaccine immune-response in elderly patients with frailty.
