20/20 GeneSystems was founded to develop and promote an innovative proteomics product line that provides drug companies, biodefense specialists and life scientists with new tools for protein analysis. The company’s first product, and the focus of the company’s work through MIPS, called BioCheck®, is the “gold standard” test for the screening of unknown suspicious powders by emergency personnel and first responders.  Since developing BioCheck, the company has expanded its scope to developing and commercializing innovative, proprietary diagnostic tests that aid in the fight against cancer. These tests generally fall into three categories: personalized medicine, early detection of lung cancer, and biological detection.

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Syntonics innovates and manufactures specialty RF communications equipment and accessories, especially RF-over-fiber products and innovative antennas, for military, civil and industrial markets.

The company’s PARCA (Pixel-Addressable Reconfigurable Conformal Antenna) is a phased array technology that operates under software control to be pointing-agile, frequency-agile, polarization-agile, lowprofile, and affordable. The PARCA concept uses a dense array of conductive pixels that can be turned ‘on’ or ‘off’ to rapidly (one millisecond) reconfigure a patch array’s beam pointing direction, operating frequency, aperture gain, and beam polarization.

InstantLabs is a molecular diagnostic device company and the developer of portable, quantitative, real-time PCR (qPCR) systems. The company is focused on medical diagnostic and food safety applications for its proprietary technologies. InstantLabs currently markets its Hunter Accelerated-PCR® platform with disposable Multiple Assay Cartridges (MACs), bringing simplicity and power to complex diagnostic testing without dependency on central laboratories or acute-care facilities for sample analysis. The compact, affordable and fully-integrated Hunter system is especially suited for use at points-of-care and points-of-need to detect and analyze a wide variety of common and problematic pathogens. InstantLabs is positioned to broaden the addressable market for RT-PCR in areas where gold-standard accuracy, combined with ease-of-use and rapid time to results, can make a consequential improvement in operational efficiency, as well as health outcomes.

The mission of AHPharma is to conduct private research for the agriculture industry and reinvest in the core business of the design, development, and commercialization of new technologies for improving animal agriculture production, nutrition, health, energy savings and housing techniques.

AHPharma’s radiant floors are designed to provide heat closer to bird activity via hot-water piping. By only emitting heat where it is needed, growers can reduce propane usage by up to 75 percent.

The company’s LED lighting system for poultry houses, called AviLighting®, reduces energy cost for growers by up to 94 percent per year over incandescent bulbs.

Under Armour® (NYSE: UA) is a leading developer, marketer and distributor of branded performance apparel, footwear and accessories. The company’s products are sold worldwide and worn by athletes at all levels, from youth to professionals, on playing fields around the globe. The Under Armour® global headquarters is in Baltimore, Md., with European headquarters in Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium, and additional offices in Denver, Hong Kong, Toronto, and Guangzhou, China.

HY-TEK Bio is an early stage company developing a patent-pending system to remove carbon dioxide and other harmful greenhouse gases from smoke stack flue gas using a unique strain of algae while producing valuable byproducts from the algae. The company’s system mitigates greenhouse gas from flue gases by injecting the flue gas into a tank full of a unique strain of algae. The tank is a patent-pending, closed bioreactor produced in-house from a lamination of Mylar and Kevlar. This patent-pending construct allows the bioreactors to be produced inexpensively while being extremely light weight. In addition, patent-pending LED Grow Lights are used along with a nutrient developed in-house, made from fresh chicken manure and a blend of other proprietary components.

The algae feeds on the CO2 and NOx in the flue gas, as well as on the nutrient. CO2 consumption is enhanced through the use of proprietary LED Grow Light technology, yielding minimal greenhouse gas emissions and high yields of high-value algal biomass. The process produces little to no CO2 or NOx emissions, while enhancing the lipid-oil production in the algae as well as a by-product of Lutein-Zeaxanthin, an ultra-antioxidant that is in high demand in the market place. The algal biomass can be sold to brokers, who place the biomass into markets that produce Lutein-Zeaxanthin-based products, bio-plastics, skin care products, cosmetic and paint thickeners, additives for human and animal food products, and biofuel.

Whisker Labs has built an energy management platform, Connected SavingsSM, which is an intelligent demand side management (IDSM) system that ties homes with utilities, big weather data and analytics to save energy—for customers, utilities and retail energy providers. The solution combines connected thermostats with proprietary weather information and thermodynamic models, developed in part with the University of Maryland, that predict how homes will respond to changing weather conditions, thus correlating energy usage to weather. Homes can then be intelligently precooled and setback, keeping customers comfortable while shifting loads for utilities during peak load events (DR events).

Plant Sensory Systems LLC is a privately held agricultural biotechnology company that develops proprietary plant technologies for sustainable food, feed, fiber, biofuel and bio-based products. PSS has expertise in modifying plant metabolic pathways and selects those pathways with real commercial value to develop into high-value products. The company is located at bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park.

Genovation’s long-term goal is to be a premier provider of high-performance sustainable automobiles. The company is committed to advancing the state of the art in electrical vehicle (EV) technology with the knowledge that performance EVs will accelerate the delivery of sustainable products for future generations. Genovation’s GXE all-electric Corvette has broken several world records on multiple occasions. Through the development of the Genovation GXE Corvette, the company is raising the bar in energy storage, propulsion, composite and suspension technologies.