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Colleagues,

As reported in Washington Business Journal ... The Maryland Technology Development Corporation (Tedco) has awarded $513,000 to seven technology and biotech firms from the group’s technology transfer fund.

The fund is meant to encourage partnerships between Maryland businesses, universities and federal laboratories and bring new technologies to market.

To date, 121 companies have received $7 million in funding from the transfer fund.

The companies winning grants include:

• Chesapeake Micro Products LLC;

• Fyodor Biotechnologies Inc., a Baltimore company that is working with Johns Hopkins University to develop malaria tests;

• Green Eyes LLC, in Easton, is working with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science to commercialize a product that collects water quality data;

• Rafagen Inc., in Rockville, is working with the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute to commercialize a product that would reduce the cost of developing gene and cell-therapy drugs;

• SD Nanosciences Inc. in Beltsville, is working with the University of Maryland, College Park to develop patent-pending nanomaterials, or materials made at scales less than a few billionths of an inch;

• Tendyne Medical Inc., in Baltimore, is working with the University of Maryland, Baltimore to develop medical devices to treat heart disease; and,

• Vorbeck Materials Corp., in Jessup.

Read on at: http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/03/30/dai...

ENJOY!

CC

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