I am passionate about the vital need to expedite the commercial development of life science breakthroughs in the bio-pharmaceutical sector. My expertise is primarily translational stage, innovation through pre-clinical phases for therapeutics and diagnostics. My work supports CEOs, through strategic, high impact corporate level projects that de-risk and advance their company. 

NeoTrials LLC, is a Maryland-based clinical research contract service provider. We provide consulting services to institutions, site networks, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and contract research entities. NeoTrials brings experts from project management, clinical operations, quality assurance, and related backgrounds to meet the rigors of an FDA-regulated environments. NeoTrials tailors its service offerings to meet the individual needs of its clients, from large established biotechnology companies to small start-up companies ready to move into clinical trials.Whether the project lasts only a few days or is a large and multifaceted project lasting months, we provide optimal experts who are committed to providing efficient, effective, and proven solutions. Our mission is to provide extraordinary service precisely aligned to meet client requirements.The NeoTrials DifferenceOur business is based on a deep understanding of clinical research and the various challenges faced by industry stakeholders. Our industry experts have a proven track record of success that allows us to create solutions to meet your needs. We understand the various reasons to seek consultants and strive to exceed your expectations whether it is to: provide expertise, fill gaps, serve as catalysts, supplement staff, identify problems, and provide creative solutions that influence positive change.SERVICESProgram ManagementGlobal Clinical OperationsGlobal Medical AffairsOutsourcing AlignmentQuality and ComplianceStrategic InitiativesSpecialized contract staff

Dr. Cody Locke is Managing Consultant with CAI. He manages the NASA-supported SPACE RACE and the NIH-supported Nanotechnology Startup Challenge in Cancer. Prior to working with CAI, Cody used genetics, microscopy, and electrophysiology to investigate how the brain maintains stability. Cody was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and was active in the Entrepreneurship Center. As a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-supported undergraduate researcher at the University of Alabama, Cody established C. elegans as an animal model of epilepsy and launched the world’s foremost epilepsy genetics database, CarpeDB. Cody is a proud father and husband, who is passionate about applying scientific discoveries and entrepreneurial spirit to advance human health and understanding.

Rosemarie Truman is the founder and CEO of the Center for Advancing Innovation whose mission is to identify breakthrough inventions and maximize their commercial potential. With over 25 years of experience, Rosemarie's specialty is growth and venture investment strategy, having led growth strategies for 50 of the global Fortune 100 companies in over 15 countries. For her clients and CAI, Rosemarie has architected investment strategies and transformations that have served as the platform for more than 190 new products and an unprecedented $25 billion in profits. Rosemarie is also Director of the DC-metro chapter of the Founder Institute, the world's largest accelerator program. In partnership with the National Institutes of Health, MedImmune and several other partners, Rosemarie conceived of and launched five "first of a kind" challenges to crowdsource startup teams to advance federally-funded inventions, resulting in 80 new startups. The first challenge was the largest in the world in CAI's first year running. CAI earned numerous awards and recognition from Health and Human Services, the White House, and the Federal Laboratory Consortium and several others such as the Washington Post, Wired, CBS, the Huffington Post, etc. Prior to launching her own firm, Rosemarie spearheaded IBM's Innovation strategy practice globally when she was awarded IBM's most laudable honor, the Golden Circle Award; she also has served in leadership in several other prestigious strategy organizations. Rosemarie also served as the VP and head of global strategy at Marsh & McLennan, the world's largest brokerage firm. Rosemarie started her career at Goldman Sachs. Her core competencies are in strategy consulting, investment banking and entrepreneurship.

Jonathan is the Managing Director of the Center for Advancing Innovation. With over 7 years of strategy consulting experience, he has expertise in all areas of business transformation, portfolio analysis, market strategy, financial modeling, and innovation. He manages the planning and operations of CAI's startup challenges. He has been instrumental in the implementation of four startup challenges to date and has trained thousands of entrepreneurs in business-related topics. He has helped launch 58 companies, which he continues to advise and mentor. Jonathan has worked on a variety of portfolio strategy, operational optimization and business strategy engagements. When a problem is labeled "impossible," he's charged with solving it, which he has done without exception. He has worked with the following client efforts: Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, MedImmune, and several others. For example, he led an engagement to assess one large pharma's suite of clinical trials, identified ways to make them more successful, and generated financial models to illustrate the value of pursuing recommendations. Jonathan has also been the lead due diligence consultant on a portfolio strategy engagement for an infectious disease drug, device, and diagnostic company where we identified a large exit and bootstrap strategy to mitigate risk for potential investors.

Tammi Thomas serves as vice president for marketing at the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO).  In this role, she is responsible for the development of TEDCO’s marketing, public relations and communications strategy and will contribute to TEDCO’s organizational strategic operations. Ms. Thomas, a seasoned administrator, has extensive managerial experience in the higher education sector and possesses a record of success in jump-starting initiatives and helping them flourish. With more than 25 years of experience in the marketing and public relations fields, she has served as advisor and consultant to senior-level executives in industry, government and academia; developed and executed comprehensive strategic, marketing and communications plans; coordinated and managed internal and external partnerships and initiatives; and facilitated large scale panels, workshops, and discussions involving a variety of executive and managerial-level individuals in the technology, government, and higher education communities.

Talent Identification & Recruitment professional with expertise in employment branding, recruiting strategy, process and systems.  Headcount Strategies strives to be the premier partner and provider of Human Resource and Recruiting Solutions to the STEM industry. Headcount Strategies competitive advantage is built on personal relationships and experiences of it's leaders supporting the local industry for 20+ years. HCS is committed to providing a transparent recruiting process and pricing to our customers supported by highly personable customer service. HCS is focused on providing solutions for private industry clients with the following Human Resource needs: Sciences and Research: -Research and Development-Emerging Technologies-Operations and Manufacturing-Quality Assurance-Quality Control-Program and Project Management-Media-Laboratory

I am currently a student at Loyola University Maryland working towards a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Business. I find myself consistently called to study the many different fields of Biology finding each fascinating. This has helped provide me with extensive training in numerous laboratory procedures and constant practice with laboratory equipment. These experiences, paired with my internships in Philadelphia, have given me an understanding of both the corporate and academic sides of a degree in the Sciences. I am hard-working, driven, and personable and am always looking for new opportunities that will challenge me throughout my career.

As a chemist and problem-solver with a M.S. and Ph.D., who enable to face challenges and solve them in an alternative and effective way, and trained how to  communicated new ideas effectively to public.

I live in Pikesville, MD and I've worked in a Biochemistry/Molecular Biology lab for a number of years. I have experience in analytical & biochemical techniques such as: HPLC, FPLC, DNA cloning and protein purification. I've also volunteered as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for Foster Care Children. Currently, I’m trying to expand my career in Biotechnology.

Pete has worked in healthcare for 20 years, including as a co-founder of BeClose.com and before that the owner of a Software-as-a-Service company in the x-ray space, for sharing DICOM images among hospitals.  BeClose.com (Vienna, VA) was founded in 2009, and is a competitor in Remote Patient Monitoring, having spun out of MicroStrategy, Inc. As Director of Consumer Health Initiatives for the MedStar Institute for Innovation, Pete is especially focused on making patient access more convenient and friction-free.  A major area of interest is cloud-platforms that can tie into the EMR, to drive new system revenue, reduce costs, improve outcomes and extend access.  Another interest area is screening patients using evidence-based questionnaires, especially on the web and mobile.

Chief Believer @ SeedUps - Intelligent Crowdfunding. We enable communities to support who they believe in. I'm also secretly a public health nerd, recovering epidemiologist and occasional IRB Board Member for DC Dept of Health. 

I have accumulated many rewarding lab and industry related experiences over the years. To name a few, I have developed scripts in Matlab to optimize electromagnetic coil printing for portable MRI systems at Weinberg Medical Physics, optimized magnetic drug delivery at the Fishcell Department of Bioengineering: UMD (in which I have been awarded over 5 accolades from various scientific organizations), and used RNAi to turn silence parts of C.Elegans genome at UMD/HHMI. In addition, I have also had clinical experience as a medic at the Tri Wing Encampment for the United States Air Force Auxiliary. My culminating research poster, list of accolades, and an in depth view of my background is available at this website:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruvpatel98

Dr. Nick Hammond is the Associate Vice President at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and works to connect the innovative capacity of the University with Maryland's innovation ecosystem. Dr. Hammond also serves as the Assistant Director of the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET). During his tenure at IMET, Dr. Hammond developed several new programs including Baltimore Entrepreneur Office Hours, the Ratcliffe Environmental Entrepreneur Fellowship (REEF) Program, the Harbor Launch business incubator, and the IMET Entrepreneur in Residence Program. Prior to IMET Dr. Hammond co-founded Ablitech, Inc. in 2006 as its first CEO, and served as its Chief Technology Officer until becoming the Chief Science Officer in 2011. Dr. Hammond was instrumental in raising more than $2.8M from federal grants and contracts, foundations, angel investment, and state agencies for the development of Ablitech’s Versadel delivery technology for gene silencing. Hammond’s past research has involved drug design and development, drug delivery, polymers, gene silencing, basic cell research, and small animal models. Nick Hammond has authored a number of scientific papers, presentations, and patents and has been honored as a National Science Foundation (NSF) IGERT Fellow, an American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (AFPE) Endowed Fellow, and a Trent Lott National Center of Excellence for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship Fellow. Hammond holds a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and a BS in Biology and Chemistry.