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March 2019
NIH Technology Showcase
Why Attend: • Learn about obtaining access to licensable technologies from and collaboration opportunities with the NIH from various NIH Institutes’ Technology Transfer Offices. Participating Technology Transfer Offices: * National Cancer Institute (NCI) * National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) * National Heart Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI) * NIH Office of Technology Transfer • Learn about funding opportunities for life science and healthcare entrepreneurs and small businesses through the NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. Learn…
Find out more »2019 Mid-Atlantic Science & Technology Showcase
This year the Mid-Atlantic Science & Technology Showcase will be held on March 27th at the Turf Valley Resort. Over 75 exhibitors and more than 500 attendees expected! Sign up today to reserve your space for this amazing event.
Find out more »April 2019
“Single Cell RNA-Seq” for Research Scientists
This in-depth lecture and hands-on laboratory workshop (wet lab & in silica) is ideal for those research and bench scientists who are interested in a comprehensive introduction to single cell RNA-Seq. The core of this workshop is composed of highlighting key aspects of NSG and RNA-seq methodologies, with subsequent introduction into the modern armamentarium of tools to conduct these experiments. Further emphasis will be placed on such important aspects as sample preparation, quality control validation and enrichment as well as…
Find out more »BIO’s 2019 Legislative Day Fly-In
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), in partnership with our leaders from State Biotechnology and Life Sciences Affiliates across the country, invite you to attend BIO's 2019 Legislative Day Fly-In. Biotech executives from all over the U.S. will come to Washington, D.C., with the mission of educating Members of Congress and staff on the value of biotech innovation and advancing BIO's key legislative priorities.
Find out more »Live Webinar: Agility in Rare Disease & Oncology Clinical Trials – Data Management
Modular and adaptive clinical trials are rapidly expanding the ability of researchers to modify clinical trials based on emerging data, i.e. to make better decisions based on positive clinical response. This is a flexible process which provides data on the smallest number of patients so that drug developers can pre-plan alternative paths for the trial during the design stage. Join this free webinar to review strategies for data management in modular and adaptive clinical trials. In this session, attendees will: Learn how to reduce study build times…
Find out more »2019 Executive UMD Cybersecurity Summit
The University of Maryland will be convening the first annual Executive Cybersecurity Summit at The Hotel at Maryland from April 4 and 5. The Summit will be an intensive two-day experience with keynote addresses from industry leaders including Chris Inglis, Jim Rosenthal, and Curt Dukes. The summit offers a unique, interactive learning opportunity that combines the latest industry research with practical relevance. It will be led by renowned University of Maryland faculty, senior policymakers, and cybersecurity experts. These experts will…
Find out more »2019 BioHealth Capital Region Forum
This invitation-only event is free for executive level biotech leaders and is presented by BioHealth Innovation, VirginiaBio, Children’s National Health System, Maryland Tech Council, Hemoshear Therapeutics, Maryland Department of Commerce, Quality Biologics Johns Hopkins University, University System of Maryland and MedImmune/AstraZeneca. Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC set the bar high for biotech innovation. So please join us for our Annual BioHealth Capital Region Forum that will highlight the accomplishments of today and chart our successes of tomorrow. We are excited…
Find out more »TechFast: Expand your Business with Fort Detrick Alliance
For this month's TechFast, Amanda Johnston with Fort Detrick Alliance will be sharing on how the tech community and business community can get involved with the Alliance AND Fort Detrick. Join us for a hot breakfast and networking before the interactive discussion. Wednesday, April 10 - 7:30 am to 9:00 am Hagerstown Community College Career Programs Building, Rms 212-214 11400 Robinwood Drive, Hagerstown, MD 21742 To register online, click here.
Find out more »Women In Baltimore, Baltimore Meetup
Come join WIB in their Baltimore Meetup on Social Media and Personal Interactions. Learn how it affects advertising, marketing, and branding from a dynamic panel and great facilitator.
Find out more »Human-Centered Machine Learning
Our April meetup features a presentation, Human-Centered Machine Learning, by Patrick Hall of H2O.ai. Doors open at 6 pm. After a half-hour of networking and refreshments courtesy of meetup sponsor Allegis Group, our program starts at 6:30 pm. Patrick's presentation illustrates how to combine innovations from several sub-disciplines of machine learning research to train understandable, observationally fair, trustable, and accurate predictive modeling systems. Techniques from research into fair models, directly interpretable Bayesian or constrained machine learning models, and post-hoc explanations…
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