TEDCO awards $150,000 in grants

Baltimore Business Journal - by Emily Mullin, Staff
Date: Monday, February 7, 2011, 2:02pm EST

The Maryland Technology Development Corp. and the Frederick County Office of Economic Development said Monday that the two agencies have chosen three more state companies as winners of $50,000 grants.

The Fort Detrick Technology Transfer Initiative awarded the following companies grants:

• Fyodor Biotechnologies Inc. at the University of Maryland BioPark in Baltimore for its antibody-based urine test used to diagnosis malaria;
• Oculearn LLC in Mount Airy for its VisiScreen, a technology used to assist victims of traumatic brain injuries;
• Foxspire LLC in Frederick for its database system that tracks infectious diseases.

The TEDCO program at Fort Detrick has funded 26 companies with a total of $1.3 million since it began in March 2005