Photo of BiologicsMD Team at Nasdaq in Times Square

UA startup BiologicsMD got to ring the Nasdaq bell for the second time in three weeks on June 25, the second time as winner of the 2010 Rice competition. Posing in Times Square are (from L-R) David Brazda, Administaff; Lea Aden Lueck, Rice Alliance; Tracye McDaniel, Greater Houston Partnership; Michael Thomas, BiologicsMD; Misty Stevens, BiologicsMD; Paul Mlakar, Jr., BiologicsMD; Brad Burke, Rice Alliance; Mary Lynn Fernau, Rice Alliance; Carol Reeves, University of Arkansas; Quynhmai Nguyen, Rice Alliance, and Tom Kraft, Rice Alliance. Credit: © 2010, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

Admittedly, we’re getting this posted a little after-the-fact, but here’s a great shot of the BiologicsMD team doing the whole Nasdaq thing again on June 25.

BiologicsMD is the UA startup and business-plan competition team that has been taking the state (the nation, the world?) by storm in 2010.

It has developed a treatment for osteoporosis that binds to the bone and stimulates new bone growth. They are the real deal.

Part of its prize for winning the prestigious Rice University competition earlier this spring was getting to go to Times Square and ring NASDAQ’s closing bell.

Team members had already done so earlier in the month.

Also this spring, BiologicsMD won the “Super Bowl” of business-plan competitions, UT-Austin’s Global Moot Corp, and ringing the Nasdaq bell was part of that prize booty as well.

BiologicsMD, an IA client and mentored by UA’s Carol Reeves, is the first team ever to win both international competitions.

INOV8 wonders if, but is doubtful that, the Biologics team led a Hog call in Times Square either time….and if not, why not? Surely that wouldn’t be the most unique action ever taken there….

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