Dr. Blankenship founded MDC to support clinicians at the University of Maryland Medical School and the JHU Medical School develop their ideas into useful products. MDC now has 8 UMB SOM clinicians as partners and works with 2 others from JHU. MDC has creaed 6 companies, including Next Step Robotics (stroke rehabilitation), Awarables (insomina treatment), SONOSA Medical (sleep apnea), Connected Care Systems (support for post-surgery recovery).

Director of Engineering at the Maryland Development Center (MDC), over seeing several projects involving the design and testing of medical devices based on technology invented by MDC clinical partners. Dr. Restaino has several joint inventions with the partners, including an instrumented organ transport container, a novel airway access device, a new arterial access device, a device for detection of OSA, and an intrathoracic pump.

Rajabrata Sarkar, MD, PhD. is Barbara Baur Dunlap Professor of Surgery and Physiology, Chief of Vascular Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Interim Chair of Surgery. Dr. Sarkar is an expert in treating blood vessel disorders and a nationally known researcher in blood vessel growth and development. Dr. Sarkar is the co-inventor of the MDC devices for airway restoration, arterial access, and tension pneumothorax.

Dr. Wolf is Professor and Medical Director and Associate Chair of Clinical Practice in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and a member of the Program in Oncology. He received his MD at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and did his residency in Otolaryngology at the UM Medical Center. He has been faculty at the University of Maryland since 2001.