Welcome to the Beyond the Bench live event with Bio-Trac! This in-person event features a Thermo Fisher Scientific vendor show, two speaker panels, and the opportunity for networking. The speaker [….]
The sounds of curiosity resonated through the hallways of QIAGEN’s sprawling Germantown, Maryland, campus last week, as I joined a group of eager high school students from Georgetown University’s Biotechnology for Science and Health Academy summer program. This program, designed to enlighten young minds about the vast universe of STEM, brilliantly organized this field trip to broaden the scholars’ horizons and present them with a taste of the real-world biotech industry.
Maryland-based biotech company Deka Biosciences (“Deka”) today announced that it has successfully closed a USD 20 Million Series A financing with a syndicate of life science investors led by Leaps by Bayer, the impact investment arm of Bayer AG, and new investor Lumira Ventures. Additional investors include O-Bio (Echo Investment Capital), Viva BioInnovator, and Alexandria Venture Investments.
The Matan Cos. will add biotech manufacturing and research space to one of its existing office campuses in Germantown to meet the surge in demand from local life sciences firms.
QIAGEN Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for NeuMoDx Multiplex Test Expanding COVID-19 Portfolio GERMANTOWN, Md. & HILDEN, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)– QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the Emergency [….]
Martha Schoonmaker is the first Executive Director for the PIC MC Foundation, the entity that develops, manages and markets the Germantown campus on behalf of Montgomery College for company locations. PIC MC is an integrated academic, business, and research campus and is the only community college with a hospital, Holy Cross Germantown Hospital, located as the anchor resident partner.
