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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Some $10 million will fund a life-sciences package that could go toward supporting research at colleges or businesses.
Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, the state’s chief jobs-creation officer, said Virginia has completed 671 business deals since the start of the administration. But life sciences and biotechnology — Maryland’s bread and butter — are areas where the state intends to step up its efforts.
“There, frankly, are a lot of states around the country over the course of the past several years who have been a lot more aggressive in the area of biotechnology and life sciences than we’ve been,” he said. “Places like Massachusetts and Texas and Pennsylvania, even Maryland has been much more — well, I shouldn’t say ‘even’ Maryland.”
“Maryland,” the governor chimed in.
“Maryland has been much more aggressive in some of these biotechnology, life sciences areas,” Mr. Bolling said.
The quality of Virginia’s health care facilities, its universities and pharmaceutical companies make it primed to expand in those field, Mr. Bolling said.
“We believe this is a sector we can compete in more effectively than we have in the past,” he said. “Some of these new and emerging biotechnology and life-sciences companies that we’ve had a hard time tracking, frankly, we’re going to get in the game on those, because it is a growing area of the economy.”
Mr. McDonnell, who has consistently said he wants Virginia to be the “Energy Capital of the East Coast,” also proposed $500,000 to go toward offshore wind-energy development — another of Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s legislative priorities in the coming General Assembly session.
The largely friendly regional rivalry between Maryland and Virginia took a sharper political edge last year, when Mr. McDonnell and Mr. O’Malley took the reins as chairmen of their parties’ respective governors associations.
Virginia famously beat out Maryland, as well as the District, to lure defense contractor Northrop Grumman’s headquarters in 2010, thanks in part to an incentives package worth between $12 million and $14 million. Last year, engineering giant Bechtel announced it was moving its corporate headquarters from Frederick to Fairfax, bringing with it 625 jobs and an $18 million investment.
posted in: EmployerNews, Maryland, News, Virginia
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The state’s biotech entrepreneurs and scientists have one of their own to lead them.
Judith Britz, a scientist, academician and entrepreneur, has been named executive director of the Maryland Biotechnology Center by Gov. Martin O’Malley (D). The center was launched in the fall with offices in Baltimore and Rockville.Read Full Article
Monday, January 25, 2010
Dr. Judith A. Britz, who was recently appointed as executive director of the Maryland Biotechnology Center, plans to create new biotech jobs.
The State’s newly launched Center coordinates and consolidates the vast number of State, university and private sector bio initiatives and resources and offers information and guidance on business strategy and development, access to capital, technology transfer and commercialisation, grants, workforce development and training and federal resources.
In her new role, Dr. Britz will oversee this Center, which is a part of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development.Read Full Article
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Baltimore City Community College unveiled Monday a life sciences training center at the University of Maryland Baltimore BioPark.
The Life Sciences Institute will enable students to pursue jobs at the BioPark, where around 350 people currently work. When complete, the 10-acre West Baltimore park is expected to house 2,500 workers and boast 1.8 million square feet of space.Read Full Article
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Emergent BioSolutions, a Rockville-based biopharmaceutical company, will open a biotechnology manufacturing facility in East Baltimore and create up to 125 jobs over the next five years.
The company, which focuses on the development, manufacture and commercialization of vaccines and therapeutics, has purchased bioscience nonprofit MdBio Foundation’s 55,000-square-foot BioProcessing Center at 5901 E. Lombard St. for $8.2 million to enhance its manufacturing infrastructure.Read Full Article
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wearing a white lab coat and focused on handling instruments in a gleaming new classroom, Pauline Samuel couldn’t be further away from the world of West Baltimore.
Beyond this new lab where she intently studies biotechnology instrumentation techniques, Samuel works nights to support her five children. She still grieves for the two brothers she lost to Baltimore street violence in the past three years.
Yet Samuel is also optimistic about her future. She’s received financial aid from Baltimore City Community College and she’s taking classes at its new Life Sciences Institute, a program based in the University of Maryland’s biotechnology research park. Frustrated that her brothers’ homicide cases remain open, Samuel wants to work in forensic criminal investigations - to put bad guys away with science.Read Full Article
Saturday, October 17, 2009
For the first time, all of Maryland’s bio-science resources will be under one roof at the Maryland Biotechnology Center in Rockville.
Thursday morning, state and local leaders from Montgomery County (web | news) officially opened the center. Before the center opened, many biotech companies said there were challenges in applying for programs and grants because of so many channels to go through.
Maryland is home to 400 biotech companies and the state continues to make strides to put the state at the forefront of the industry. “If you look at our strengths in bio, we can divide them into labor, we can talk about industry that’s already here, we could talk about federal facilities and we could talk about our great institutions,” said Christian Johansson, business and econ development secretary.Read Full Article
Monday, October 12, 2009
On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, Jim Greenwood, President and CEO of BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organization) will speak on Healing, Feeding and Fueling the World through Biotechnology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Biotech Forum.
Mr. Greenwood will discuss how the biotechnology field is rapidly developing and how new breakthroughs will in time translate into solutions to today’s most pressing issues in healthcare, food supply and alternative sources of energy.
This free event, open to the public, will be held on the UMBC campus from 6:00-8:30 p.m. For more information and to register, go to http://umbc.ennect.com/events/biotech.Read Full Article
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Maryland stem cell researchers are teaming up with their counterparts in California to form a new research collaboration state officials hope will lead to more grant money and scientific breakthroughs.
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley announced the new collaboration between the Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO) and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Monday morning at the World Stem Cell Summit in Baltimore. The conference has attracted 1,200 scientists from 27 countries who are meeting through Wednesday at the Baltimore Convention Center.Read Full Article
posted in: California, Maryland, News
Friday, October 09, 2009
This week, I was proud to join more than 1,200 participants from 40 states and 27 countries throughout the world for the 2009 World Stem Cell Summit, held right here in Maryland, where we have long been committed to supporting and promoting stem cell research even in times when we’ve faced federal opposition. This year’s Summit served as the perfect venue to announce a new partnership between Maryland and California, creating a first-of-its-kind bi-coastal collaboration on stem cell research. The agreement will make it easier for researchers in each state to collaborate and broaden the pool of expertise that can be applied toward potentially life saving research.Read Full Article
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