News Story
Behrens Part of Winning Business Plan Competition Team

Left to right: Karen Thornton, MBA (Director, Hillman Entrepreneurs Program and Associate Director, Entrepreneurship Education, MTECH), Brendan Casey, Adam Behrens, Professor Peter Kofinas, Henry Ahn, MBA (Program Manager, Technology Funding Programs Maryland Technology Development Corporation [TEDCO]), and Dr. Dean Chang (Director, Mtech Ventures and Education Director, Technology Advancement Program, MTECH).
Behrens' Haemechanics teammates include Professor Peter Kofinas (BioE), graduate research assistant Brendan Casey (BioE), and recent Fischell Festival guest Bartley Griffith (professor of surgery; chief, division of cardiac surgery; director, heart and lung transplantation, University of Maryland Medical Center).
Recently, Behrens won the 2009 A. James Clark School of Engineering Outstanding ASPIRE Student Research Award for his work on the same hemostatic hydrogels in Kofinas' Functional Macromolecular Laboratory.
The $75K Business Plan Competition, held annually by MTECH, promotes the commercialization of innovative ideas and University-created technologies by offering faculty, students, and alumni prizes for the best new venture plans. The competition emphasizes learning by offering one-to-one coaching for finalists, as well as the experience of presenting ideas to an experienced panel of judges. Companies active in the Competition have generated millions in revenues, grants and awards.
For More Information:
Read the MTECH press release to learn more about the competition, the judges and prizes, and all of the winning teams »
Visit the $75K Business Plan Competition web site »
Visit Professor Kofinas' homepage »
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Published May 15, 2009