UMBC and Johns Hopkins University are partnering together under a National Science Foundation grant to help train post-doctoral students to create startup companies based on technologies culled from the National Institutes of Heath. The project is funded through a three-year, $600,000 grant, and will create 10-12 startup companies in Maryland. Greg Simmons (MPP ‘04), vice president for institutional advancement, is the lead principal investigator of the UMBC team. "We’ll recruit postdocs from throughout the state, but these will primarily be postdocs at NIH," Simmons told BTW this week. "These highly trained scientists are a valuable, yet untapped, resource for economic development in the region.”
The article, “UMBC, Johns Hopkins to Use $600K NSF Grant to Create Life-Sci Startups around NIH Techs,” ran Wednesday, August 19.
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