Funding for Research & Innovation

The Maryland Department of Commerce has approved $8.5 million in matching grants to help establish seven endowed research professorships at four higher education institutions, supporting a combined $17.7 million investment aimed at accelerating scientific research, technology commercialization and workforce development across the state... Read more at City Biz.

For more than three decades, my work has been rooted in West Baltimore, where the gap between scientific progress and community benefit is not theoretical; it is something families experience every day. That is why a recent announcement about a new treatment for metastatic pancreatic cancer demanded my attention. New clinical data shows that daraxonrasib doubled survival rate for patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer, reducing the risk of death by 60 p