BioHealth Capital Region 2022 Q3 News Recap – Keeping Up the Momentum A few of BioBuzz’s favorite stories from late summer/early fall Over the past several months, life sciences companies [….]
Pfizer Partners with Morgan State, Launches DrPH Vaccines Fellow Program A Pfizer-backed Doctor of Public Health Fellowship at Morgan State University officially kicked off, bolstering the college’s commitment to life [….]
The new science center will house Morgan State University’s biology and chemistry departments, along with the dean’s office for the School of Computer Mathematical and Natural Sciences.
The Maryland Department of Commerce joined eight local colleges and universities in endowing a total of $21.2 million to fund a dozen new research professorships. The endowments were made through the Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative (MEI), a state program created to spur basic and applied research in scientific and technical fields at the colleges and universities. The schools raised a total of more than $10.6 million in private funding for each chair and Maryland Commerce approved matching grants of $10.6 million to support the endowments.
Despite representing roughly 12% of the U.S. adult population, in biopharma, Black professionals account for just 7% of the total workforce and 3% of executive teams. Today, in an initiative designed to increase access to and awareness of the biopharma industry among Black talent and build a diverse talent pipeline, Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) announced its collaboration with Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Howard University, Morgan State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff to launch Tomorrow’s Innovators—a multimillion dollar strategic alliance to attract top HBCU-affiliated talent to the bio-pharma industry in the next five years.
New Director of TEDCO’s University Commercialization Fund Shares Vision for the Future The Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) is the State’s premier $5.8M investment program for validating and commercializing University research [….]