Scientists honored with 'Excellence in Clinical Research Award'
...Ph.D., a scientist and entrepreneur, is one of the founders of Transition Therapeutics and Chief Executive Officer since its inception in July 1998. At Transition, Dr. Cruz has quickly advanced multiple products into clinical development, including combination therapies for beta cell regeneration. Previously,...AACR Annual Meeting showcases significant developments in understanding and targeting cancers
...nnial year, this deeply reflects the intent of our founders on a scale that they could scarcely imagine." AACRs Annual Meeting attracts attendees including leading academic, industry and government scientists, as well as clinical oncologists, students, cancer survivors, advocates and other health care profe...Natural polyester makes new sutures stronger, safer
...w and novel ways," said Sinskey, who is one of the founders of Tepha and sits on its board of directors. The new suture is the first of what the researchers hope will be many medical devices made from the natural polyesters. "What we've found is that this one material seems to be finding a lot of use in d...Liquidia Technologies announces $16M in Series B venture financing
...apital, and Dr. Lowry Caudill and Dr. Al Childers, founders of Magellan Labs. "NEA's track record in life sciences and materials science investments will be of strategic importance to Liquidia in the coming years," said Steve Nelson, Interim CEO at Liquidia and managing director at Wakefield Group. "The fir...Sustainability forum speakers include ex-governor
...dent nonprofit organization created in 1963 by the founders of the first SeaWorld in San Diego, CA. DeFreese holds a B.S. degree in zoology from the University of Rhode Island and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in marine biology from Florida Tech. He has authored numerous papers and received awards for his teaching a...Super-thin membrane, 50 atoms thick, sorts individual molecules
...ed in testing and developing the membrane, and the founders have already been approached by semiconductor giants such as Intel to see if the filter could remove nanoparticles from solutions used in microchip-manufacturing. The team is currently testing the membranes to see how they stand up to regular wear ...European Federation of Biotechnology and Elsevier announce launch of biotechnology journal
...tor of Nature Biotechnology. Hodgson is one of the founders of the biotech consultancy firm, Critical I. According to Hodgson, Biotechnology, the Journal will have a global reach in content and subscription base. "It is important for the credibility of Biotechnology, the Journal that it publishes the best in ...Scientific meeting on pulmonary hypertension, December 7-8
...ep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) and Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), founders of the Congressional Pulmonary Hypertension Caucus. Both congressmen have personally witnessed the debilitating effects of pulmonary hypertension through loved ones and are long-time supporters and advocates of pulmonary hypertension research. "...Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars begin with TheraLogics
...ity. Their intention is to show potential academic founders and entrepreneurs a new model for translating technologies. Refreshments and networking will follow the seminar from 5 to 7 p.m. Registration is free, but advance RSVP to Larry Banks at larry.banks@yale.edu or the Yale Office of Cooperative Resear...Yale ovarian cancer detection technology licensed in China by SurExam
...vately held company funded by private capital. The founders include scientists trained at Yale and other international institutions. The company's scientific team is engaged in cutting-edge cancer research around the world, including universities in USA and China, according to CEO Xu. Their management team is...Joint European strategy for industrial biotechnology
...h into industrial biotechnology. NWO is one of the founders of ERA-IB and is also the coordinator of the project. The Netherlands' main task is to manage the entire network. In addition to this NWO will make an important contribution to the communication activities of the new European network. Industrial bio...Scientists describe new African monkey genus first in 83 years
...work for the Wildlife Conservation Society and are founders of the Southern Highlands Conservation Programme based in Tanzania. Another co-author, Eric Sargis, is a primatologist in the Anthropology department at Yale University, while co-author Link Olson is the Mammals Curator at the University of Alaska Mu...Penn clinical chemist wins prestigious Ullman Award
...ensive patent portfolio, Kricka is also one of the founders of the Micro and Nanotechnology Center established within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at HUP....Genetic links among men who share surnames
...for example, the existence of multiple independent founders for many names, adoptions, name changes, and non-paternities. Nonetheless, previous research had suggested a genetic link for some particular names. The new study, from Turi King, Stphane Ballereau, and Mark Jobling from the University of Leicester a...US woman gives birth to baby from world's first frozen donor egg bank
...ses are the eggs released for sale. Several of the founders of CEI have both professional and personal experience with infertility. Diana Thomas, CEO, had her own three children with donor eggs, and based on that experience, owned and operated an international egg donor recruiting agency for nine years before...The shape of things to come: Morphology database going global
...he School of Computational Sciences, is one of the founders of MorphBank, an international Web database that contains thousands of high-resolution photographs and other images of plant and animal specimens. Now he is leading an interdisciplinary team of FSU scientists to expand the database, thanks to a $2.25...DNA solves mystery of Gibraltar's macaques
...eals that the macaques on Gibraltar descended from founders taken from forest fragments in both Morocco and Al...e Gibraltar macaques were exclusively derived from founders imported from Morocco. In fact, both Algerian and Moroccan haplotypes were found among the Gibraltar...2005's highest engineering honors awarded
...Emeritus, University of Cincinnati, was one of the founders of Synthetic Blood International Inc. Considered the "father of biosensors," he invented the first device to rapidly determine the amount of glucose in blood. Today many of the 18.2 million Americans with diabetes rely on Clark's original glucose s...Indiana University scientists' research success puts Indiana in new stem cell business
... business plan for the new company, and helped the founders arrange financing. The primary source of startup capital came from an "angel" investor who does not wish to be identified, Yoder said....'From the Sidelines' describes the making of a scientific revolution
...ck, co-discoverers of the structure of DNA; to the founders of the UO Institute of Molecular Biology. "From the Sidelines" by Lotte Streisinger recently was published by the University of Oregon Press. Streisinger escorts her readers behind the scenes as a scientific revolution unfolds. She lived this history...