Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission Announces Over $14 Million in Awards to Accelerate Cures

The Maryland Stem Cell Research (MSCRF) Commission is pleased to announce over $14.1 million in grant awards to promote innovative research that will strengthen and advance stem cell treatments and technologies in Maryland. This is the largest amount awarded to Maryland-based institutions and
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TEDCO Announces Investment into Rise Therapeutics

Rise Therapeutics, based in Rockville, Md., is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing innovative treatments for devastating diseases. Rise has developed the Tripartite X drug delivery platform that leverages synthetic biology medicine to enable safe and effective oral delivery
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TEDCO Invests in Novel Microdevices

Novel Microdevices, based in Baltimore, Md., is a woman-owned medical device company, working to revolutionize clinical diagnostics. Through this effort, the company has developed the Novel Dx device, a cost-effective, portable, rapid, and easy-to-use testing solution. The company is challenging the
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How these 6 orgs are supporting local tech jobseekers and the tech workforce pipeline

For How to Get a Tech Job Month, we asked our Technical.ly Ecosystem Builder organizations what programs and services they offer to help technologists find work and companies grow their teams.
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Maryland Business Spotlight: Troy LeMaile-Stovall

As the CEO of TEDCO, Troy leads the organization’s mission to support economic development through the cultivation of an inclusive entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem. Troy’s professional experience over the last two decades includes highly visible leadership positions in investment management
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TEDCO Talks: Troy LeMaile-Stovall Interviews MMG President, CEO and Co-Founder Stanley Tucker

On this edition of TEDCO Talks, LeMaile-Stovall spends time talking with special guest, Stanley Tucker, president, CEO and co-founder of Meridian Management Group ( MMG) about the inspiration for starting MMG, entrepreneurship and how MMG is impacting the Maryland ecosystem.
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Warrior Centric Health Helps Vets Get The Care They Need

Ronald J. Steptoe, the CEO and Co-Founder of Warrior Centric Health joined Good Morning Washington to talk about health equity, and what it means to caring for our nation’s Veterans and Military communities. The company, with help from TEDCO, a Maryland based venture capital leader, has developed a
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Maryland General Assembly passes legislation to create TEDCO Equitech fund

The Maryland General Assembly passed a bill that would establish a Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO) fund to promote job growth and minority inclusion in the sciences. Both chambers passed House Bill 781 earlier this month, which establishes the Equitech Growth Fund to send state funding
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Funding and Support Now Available through New Makerspace Program

The Maryland Makerspace Pilot Initiative Program is now up and running, offering grant funding and technical support to local governments and non-profits to establish or expand makerspaces. Increasingly, Maryland’s makerspaces provide greater service to the communities they serve, including
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Leadership, sustained commitment called key to DEI success

“(DEI) has to be a part of who and what we are and it can’t be a project,” said TEDCO's Troy LeMaile-Stovall. “If it is a project, the minute things go tough … then it becomes something that gets dropped, but the minute it is foundationally part of the leadership, the board, and the executive team —
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Elkridge startup aBreak Music wants to help musicians get their first big break

Bruce Tyler’s office in Elkridge is covered with gold and platinum records from his years of working in the music industry. Now, the former executive at Sony Music Label Group wants to help independent artists get some best-selling records of their own with his new company aBreak Music. The company
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Geothermal Technologies to Build Power Plant in Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg Basin

BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Geothermal Technologies, Inc. (GTI) is pleased to announce that it has filed for drilling permits with the Division of Water Resources in the State of Colorado. GTI seeks to drill geothermal wells for the purpose of generating utility-scale electricity in the Denver
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Md. Stem Cell Research Fund names new executive director

The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission Tuesday appointed Ruchika Nijhara, Ph.D., MBA as executive director of the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF).
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Columbia startup looks to help pet businesses improve their online presence

The five-person company, which is based at the Maryland Innovation Center in Columbia, has received $110,000 from the Maryland Technology Development Corp.'s Builder Fund and its Rural and Underserved Business Recovery from Impact of COVID-19 (RUBRIC) fund as well as $250,000 from the Maryland
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Commission Appoints Ruchika Nijhara as Executive Director of the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund

The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission announces the appointment of Ruchika Nijhara, Ph.D., MBA, as executive director of the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF). As executive director, Nijhara oversees all MSCRF activities and seven programs accelerating stem cell research
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